The Chairman of the newly formed Aston Clinton Chilli Growing Society invited me to an 80s theme party at his house.
I packed a few chilli gifts, grabbed a can of Party Seven, jumped in the Hammer mobile and rushed to snog Maggie Thatcher.
It was a great night.
Thanks to the guys at The Aston Clinton Chilli [...]
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Holy Mole x 4
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A bag of peat pockets arrived today, so I put them to good use.
I consulted the Stella tin of seeds.
I planted 20 seeds I got out of the Red Thai chillis which Pho Cafe uses. I’ll give most of them away to encourage some more chilli growers.
The Pho Cafe chillis look good, they are what [...]
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Yesterday afternoon I repotted some of my chilli plants. The usual stuff, bigger plant pot and handfuls of soil from a compost bag. Three of them I covered up with plastic cloches. I just got back home and there was a very big wasp trapped inside one of the cloches. It must have been in [...]
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The Berk0 Chilli Growing Society are getting into the spirit for next weekends charity fun run for the Berko Astro Turf Project.
Thanks to everyone that has sponsored us so far (thanks Hannah, from one of my favourite London boozers The Hat and Tun on Hatton Wall).
If you would like to sponsor us you can do [...]
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The established plants from the first batch of plants are:
Serrano chilli (from Wahaca Seeds) x 7
Madagascan chili x 2
Mozambique chilli x 4
Apache chilli x 1 (for the Berkhamsted Chilli Growing Society Best Bush 2010 competition)
Bode Amarela x 1
Explosive Ember
Chilli NS 1701 x1
Mushroom Yellow chilli x 1
Pepper Hot Lemon chilli x 1
Indian Limo chilli x 1
Prairie [...]
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I repotted my first seedling of the year.
I have lots that need repotting.
I noticed I have one Apache left for the Berkhamsted Chilli Growing Society Best Chilli Bush Competition.
I need to finish this Pain 100% chilli sauce off, I’ve had the bottle for over a year.
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Here they are on the way to their baby sitter, all alive and kicking.
Here they are again a week later, a few of them looking ill or dead. Plenty of time to plant some more though. The Toyota was also dead when we got back to the airport but that’s another story.
A dead Ring of [...]
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Tonight I gave some chilli seeds to Ashley, the chairman and founder, of The Aston Clinton Chilli Growing Society to start them off on their first chilli growing season.
Come on residents of Aston Clinton get in touch with Ashley and start growing chilli’s.
http://www.astonclintonchilligrowingsociety.org
chairman@astonclintonchilligrowingsociety.org
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