Frizzled chilli
29 October 2021 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI tried out half of one of my baked-black chilli peppers in a leek and kidney bean chilli (using muscovado sugar instead of 'Brown rice syrup', and beef dripping to make it thoroughly non-vegan!) and despite being black and friable they are still definitely pretty potent. So I haven't destroyed my entire crop, which is good to know...
I also discovered two more green chillis still on the plant, hiding beneath the leaves in the traditional fashion :-p
Sadly I don't think I'm going to get any viable seed out of the flower spikes on my various basil plants; the earliest ones which appeared to have set some immature seed have just gone black (apparently frosted...!?) and dropped off, and the others won't have time to mature. Amazingly, my towel-tomatoes are still flowering, possibly due to having had their normal flowering development truncated by a badly-timed heatwave -- I shan't get any fruit out of that, however! I have picked almost all the tomatoes that had started to turn colour, and those green ones where the stem was withering. There are still several trusses of green tomatoes on the magazine-tomatoes which must have set after the heatwave, where the stems of the fruit are still fairly robust, and I've left those for the moment.
I also discovered two more green chillis still on the plant, hiding beneath the leaves in the traditional fashion :-p
Sadly I don't think I'm going to get any viable seed out of the flower spikes on my various basil plants; the earliest ones which appeared to have set some immature seed have just gone black (apparently frosted...!?) and dropped off, and the others won't have time to mature. Amazingly, my towel-tomatoes are still flowering, possibly due to having had their normal flowering development truncated by a badly-timed heatwave -- I shan't get any fruit out of that, however! I have picked almost all the tomatoes that had started to turn colour, and those green ones where the stem was withering. There are still several trusses of green tomatoes on the magazine-tomatoes which must have set after the heatwave, where the stems of the fruit are still fairly robust, and I've left those for the moment.