Things in my garden which are not dead.

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Aldi has chili and pepper plants in their specials this week, and add I've had good experiences growing chili, I thought I'd give both a chance. They said transfer asap, so Judith and I did that this afternoon and I thought maybe it was time for one of these posts again. So.

6 chilis, 6 bell peppers.
2 clumps of chives
1 rosemary. My rosemary was stolen last year at mother's day but not this year!
2 strawberry plants, I think I might plant some more later.
5 raspberry canes
2 redcurrants
1 blueberry
1 blackcurrant
1 jostaberry
1 miniature fig
1 tiny almond, with blossom!
1 Mirabelle tree, blossom in by bud.

I was thinking of planting lateral thyme or chamomile to fill the gap between the big things, too.

Comments

[juliet]

Have you had actual figs on your fig tree? We got figs for the first time last year but then the bloody birds ate them before they were ripe. So I intend to net it this year. (And the grape vine/pergola, which had the same problem.)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Not on this fig, it's much too small and new. But in a previous house we did, they take two years to ripen so the trick is to wrap the fruit in bubble wrap over winter.

[juliet]

Oh, thank you, I was not aware of that. But what with the warm winter & our south-facing central-London microclimate I think we may have gotten away with it -- there are baby figs on it already and I guess those must be the ones from last year that have overwintered.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Yes, the ones on the tiny tree at the community centre local HE groups meet at survived the winter this year, where they haven't before.