A Day with Plants and Family and Friends

Recently I spent the morning working with my pot plants just out the back door.  I had sad tomato plants that needed to be potted up before I lost them, and a cucumber similarly needing potting.  Soon enough I was spending the morning working with plants, repotting, weeding, tidying, even a little painting, and all the time I was with my family and friends!  A storm was looming, due around lunch time, so I knew that my time was limited, but planned to work until driven indoors.

I spent time with my late mum via the beautiful yellow gerbera that she had given me eight years ago, and the lavender that I had dug from her garden after she passed, there’s even a juvenile lavender now growing in a large pot, home to a small mandarin tree.

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Sweet Chilli Sauce – A little fire from the garden

When the garden gives you chillies…

This year I planted out five chilli plants that I’d grown indoors over winter, doing this, gave them a huge head start when planted out.  For those who are chilli aficionados, they weren’t anything exciting, but the cayennes were self sown, dug up and brought indoors for the winter,  while the Long Reds were grown from saved seed, which kind of makes it all the more special!  The result… A wonderful chilli harvest – the best ever!  So there was only one thing to do…

Make sweet chilli sauce, of course!

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