Finally a little currant bun

It's taken it's time arriving, but it looks like we're about to get some sunshine. I just hope it lasts longer than the short term forecast of a week or so. A couple of months would be nice, with an Indian summer running into October would be my preference. 

Anyhow. All is going fairly well in the greenhouse, regular watering and feeding lightly every other day seems to be getting things moving nicely. Stars of the show are the Praetermissum and Mini Rocoto (both 6ft tall), although the Marouga Yellow is having a good go too. 

A couple of the plants are a little less impressive, the Pimenta de Neyde is not doing much and the 7 pot is a little small. But mostly things they are a-growing. 

I actually had my first fresh chillis yesterday - 2 green CAP 267s made it into my lunch. Not very hot or remarkable, but nice anyhow. I shall have to grab a few for lunch at work. 

So a few photo highlights. Most are as labelled, the other one if the mini rocotto. The latter is growing great guns, but the pods dont seem to be setting yet - hopefully a warm spell will help. 

A little bit mad

So although it feels like nothing's happened for weeks, the plants in the greenhouse have really started to bush out. There is a vast amount of flowers out, or about to come out, but not that many pods forming. Hopefully, the change in the weather that's forecast for next week (the jet stream is due to move and make a big difference) will increase the pod set and a decent harvest may be on the cards. 

In the mean time, it looks like I'll have to get on with some tying back and tidying up - it's starting to get difficult to walk down the greenhouse path. 

Something else

So the last week has been a little slow weather wise. A little sun and heat, but a fair amount of cloud and rain. However, the plants are doing well, in fact they are really bushing out (I had to tie a few plants back) and a good show of flowers is evident throughout the greenhouse. Fingers crossed that they set and a flush of pods start to appear.

On an aside I sowed a few seeds yesterday. One of my 'experiments' - last year I tried to grow bamboo from seed and failed dismally (nothing germinated at all), so this year I'm trying with acers. Seeds for 6 different varieties have been in the fridge for the passed few months and now they've been sown. 2 seeds per pot (mostly), 8 pots per variety and under the lights to see what will happen. I don't expect much and anything that does emerge is likely to take some time, but why not? I've got the equipment, maintenance is minor and you never know.

Now all I need to know is what will I do if I suddenly have the best part of 100 acers on my hands? A nice problem to have :-)