Category: Capsicum
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It’s officially Autumn. Cool nights and brisk days have arrived. There is excitement around the Patch, with pretty much everyone planting new crops – walking around the crates is a guessing game of what-do-you-think-is-that-seedling? On our list this season: Snap sugar peas (handy to have our tomato trellis already installed) Snow peas (Lisa likes them…
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It was time to say goodbye to our Summer crops. Although the tomatoes, beans and capsicum were still producing a little fruit, we wanted to give the soil a few weeks to relax before we launched our next attack of seeds and seedlings. So out came everything (aside from the our capsicum) and into the…
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Waiting, waiting, waiting… For a while it seemed that we would only ever be eating pumpkins and zucchinis. Thankfully by late-February we were starting to harvest our plants every few days, with tomatoes, beans and capsicum starring at dinner. Having planted some lettuce seedlings in the gaps left by the zucchini plants, we were harvesting…
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I admit, the tomato stakes were pretty haphazard. Planted in a state of plant emergency when it was clear our one plant was spreading all over the ground rather than growing up, it’s become necessary to give it (and the patch) a spring clean. So with a bit of help from master Carpenter Craig, we…
