Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

LilacPixie

Well this morning we have life in the cherry tomato 'sweetie' and plum tomato 'Roma' I put in unheat propegators last saturday and put in my kitchen... I am so glad I have about 7 meters of worktop space. Still nothing from the cucumbers, spring onion or sweet peppers.

Yesterday the kids sowed some tomato 'amature' they got as a red nose day kit. Sunflowers planned fr this weekend

moonpixiewitch

mrbadexample wrote: »

What are you going to do with about 1500 chillies? :eek: :rotfl:

make cowboy candy ? :eek:

Ingredients
1 1/4 cups sliced fresh jalapenos
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 drop green food coloring (optional)
Instructions
Slice jalapenos, and place in a small sauce pan. Add water and sugar. Cook over medium heat until boiling. Reduce temperature to low, and simmer until the liquid has reduced, and the sugar water has become syrup-like (about 15- 20 minutes depending on temperature of heat source). Let cool and place in clean jam jar. Store in refrigerator.

point3

Chilli jam? :undecided

mrbadexample

moonpixiewitch wrote: »

make cowboy candy ? :eek:

I like your thinking.

And are you as err...intriguing as your username suggests? Should you be up at noon?

mrbadexample

I was looking at that picture of the PinP (post #207), and I saw my little (then new) lavender plants behind it. They've grown a bit since then, I thought, so popped out to have a look:



If you look carefully you can see that some of the leaves have been nibbled.

And then I found these blighters:



So, what eats lavender? I need to know, because I like to think I'm fairly wildlife-friendly (sawfly excepted ). If they're a common menace, the birds can have 'em. If they are uncommon, and not too destructive, I wouldn't necessarily be averse to putting them back.

Any ideas?

Edit: On the plus side, I'm pretty sure it's not rosemary beetle.

mrbadexample

These are about the best I can do:

Fay

Urgh, horrible-whatever they are they're not complimenting my salad sandwich I'm eating *shudder*Any ideas what could be nibbling my peppers in the GH? I looked in the bug thread and I'm going to try a water spray with a drop of washing liquid in it, fingers crossed!

mrbadexample

Fay wrote: »

Urgh, horrible-

I don't see horrible. I just see a little crawly thing getting on with the business of being a little crawly thing.

But, if it'll wreck my lavender, it'll have to be bird food.

Don't know about the peppers. Have you had a close look?

Last year some of my chiilies got infested with something whose larvae burrowed into the fruit, and hid inside whilst munching away. I wasn't very happy about that, I can tell you! Bit early for those though, as we're a long way from fruit.

Fay

I had a good look this morning but couldn't see anything-I'll be out tomorrow investigating. Sadly I'm stuck at work on this glorious day boo

Lotus-eater

They're some sort of moth caterpillar I would think. I wouldn't have thought they would do any damage your lavender couldn't cope with.