Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Green pepper, beans and rockets



All the red peppers are now harvested and they taste wonderful! Only the long peppers were true red peppers.


Now the 2 green pepper plants are setting flowers and fruits for the 2. time. I might let some of them turn red, as I did with the first batch.










Baby size green peppers













Rockets (arugulas) and beans

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

February 19-22






The first few mangetout peas are ready to be picked and eaten. Amazing, they were only sown 1 1/2 month ago!










Flowers on rocket plants for seed production










Flowers on frilly lettuce for seed production .. the fluffy ones are ready to be picked. One day the wind dispersed some of the lettuce seeds with the result that I now find baby lettuce growing in neighboring soil bags and even on the pebbled floor.





I started experimenting with new seeds: Japanese greens (Mibuna), Chervil, Pak Choi, Chives and Celery. The Mibuna greens are ready when 10-20 cm tall. Pak Choi in 35-50 days. Chervil in 30 days. Chives in 90-120 days (wonder why). Celery in 70 days. Let's see what happens :-)