13/07/2015. Fireworks... le Schpountz...

Despite the rain this Sunday afternoon, it has been a garden affair...

The last few warm weeks meant lots of re-potting, lots of moving about, lots of framing of many plants... The main task was to put out all the chilli and pepper plants out to benefit of the Summer sun.  From the yellow Peruvian chilli to the Californian sweet pepper passing by the Romanesco pepper, the Jalapeno and Cayenne, we have a lot of pepper from sweet to hot to look after this Summer. The Chilli  Adventure has been so exciting so far that my partner dreams of creating a UK chilli bank of seeds or something better along the lines to share for all to grow.

I must say the heat of the entire affair enthuses me somehow. Digging Scotch bonnet seeds from market shelves to Ghost chilli from wherever on the globe, to growing lots of interesting chillies has been a true adventure. At the end of the day, it involves taste as well as all the peppers will end in a pan. My choices went for sweet varieties, the long pointy red Romanesco, the Californian bell pepper and the sweet mini mix. I never grew sweet peppers before. If any  appear I will be very happy and my pans even more.

This Spring comes to an end full of bounty. First, the baby gem lettuce salad that went sky scrapper on us. It provided for a few lovely meals and an allotment salad with radishes that was a delicious treat.





Then it is fruity: redcurrants, strawberries and raspberries. The plan for those are in terms of jellies, Eton mess, jams and conserves.

Then it is the good old potatoes: Baby new potatoes, Désirée and Apache. The good harvest happened today. Plentiful. Better than last year.

Demain ne donnez pas la main aux trancheurs de tetes. Vous perdrez toutes vos libertés, si vous etes assez stupides pour tomber dans leur propagande: half cooked, planning on mass imbecility.

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 Leurs videos incitant à la revolution n'ont pas de fondement. La république n'a pas été fondée par une simple phrase de Machiavel.  N'importe qui , fully educated, vous le dira. C'est pure bullshit! Du sable, la poudre aux yeux, pour vous faire commetre le pire. Ne baffouer pas les libertés acquises, ne les perder pas sur un coup de tete. Vous risquez gros. Les trancheurs de tetes sont sur vous, ils jouent avec vos consciences comme des pions sur un jeu d'échec. Don't give them the easy hand! Fight For Liberty, Fraternity and Equality.

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