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12/11/2026

Bringing in the final chilli harvest and what a year it’s been! These were all from chilli seeds bought from Red Dragon Seeds

The varieties featured in this post are:
Cayenne red and orange
Hungarian Black
Hungarian Hot Wax
Naga Smooky Rainbow

All my chillies were grown outdoors and these ones were grown in open ground in my vegetable garden.

Now, to find some interesting chilli recipes to try! 🌶️ Suggestions welcomed! 😊

08/09/2026

The rain has come with a-vengeance, I saw on the weather apps it was coming so harvested all the ripe tomatoes I could yesterday evening. So many ripening and green tomatoes still on the plants, I hope everything left doesn’t split. Hopefully the grass will finally look green everywhere though.

Pic 1 all the tomatoes I harvested yesterday evening before the rain came

Pic 2 my harvest on Sunday for a very delicious lunch

Pic 3 My tomatoes chopped for my pastry pizza

Pic 4 using some of my homegrown garlic

Pic 5 a perfect homegrown pepper freshly harvested

Pic 6 my pastry pizza! 😋

07/09/2026

Can you help me identify my chilli please?

Seed grown from a surprise variety pack of seeds from Red Dragon Seeds

These chillies are a gorgeous shade of chocolate brown and are spicy (we did a little tongue test with a small piece of chilli).

Please feel free to ask any questions and I look forward to your best guesses! 🌶️

01/09/2026

Hungarian Hot Wax Chilli seeds bought from Red Dragon Seeds

These plants are performing really well outside in my vegetable garden and there are lots of chillies on both plants. They are medium hot with a SHU rating of 5,000-15,000. I did put one in a chilli with a naga Smooky Rainbow and I have to say I found it too hot to handle so I plan next time to use just one of these! 😅

27/08/2026

Let’s talk Cherry tomatoes! They are a must have in my vegetable garden as they are the first to ripen and are just such a delicious, sweet burst of flavour when you eat them!

The varieties I’m growing are:

James’s red cherry
James’s orange cherry
Golden cherry
Black cherry

The James’s cherry tomatoes were named that by me as they grew self seeded in a garden where my husband was working last year and they were so prolific and delicious that I saved the seeds to grow again.

I think my favourite though is the black Cherry, it is just so flavoursome this year!

Do you grow cherry tomatoes and which is your favourite variety?

06/08/2026

Just harvesting some tomatoes from my balcony garden! This tomato is a dwarf variety called Balkonzauber which is a determinate variety that grows to 40-60 cms tall so has been perfect to grow on my balcony in a pot! I have two of these growing here and they seem very happy! The fruits are slightly bigger than my cherry tomatoes growing in my veg patch but not quite as big as a salad tomato. They taste sweet and are very delicious!

05/08/2026

Do you help pollinate your courgettes? This is not really necessary if the bees are working hard and achieving pollination for you, but often people find the fruits dropping off or looking rotten snd small on the plant and they are not getting them growing to a harvestable size. I find this method really helps in my vegetable garden to ensure I get that glut of courgettes (or Zucchini) that everyone enjoys and looks forward to! 😂

Do you help pollinate your courgettes or any other veg in your garden?

28/07/2026

Can you guess what variety these chilli peppers are?

From the variety pack of seeds I got from Red Dragon Seeds when I bought some chilli seeds.

Hopefully my clues will help direct you.

The flowers are white and similar size to a normal pepper. The fruits start green and have now ripened to orange (assuming they won’t ripen further to a different colour). The chilli peppers are 5-6 cms long. They are smooth and look like small sweet peppers.

Any guesses what you think they might be? I don’t know the answer so am willing to take any suggestions. 😊

25/07/2026

I’m so pleased with how my little balcony garden is growing, it seems to be doing better than my veg patch! 😂 Maybe it’s because I can water it better amd more easily keep an eye on it. I’m a Long way off having any melons but it’s nice to see them starting to appear, I may have to get the paintbrush out to aid with pollination. Mind you, there are lots of flowers on my balcony snd lots of bees keep visiting, so maybe I’ll be lucky without any interference! 🤞

22/07/2026

Chilli seeds bought from Red Dragon Seeds

They are in pots on my balcony and growing really well, but I’m not sure why the Hungarian Hot Wax ones are growing upside down! 😂

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