That one man and his peppers

A post actually about successes and failures of the season

We all know that one person, who grows super hot chillis. In my experience, it is a man- just like it is almost always older men who obsessively grow dahlias, roses and lawns. Why do they do this? Why the hyper focus?

This week (I will get to this a bit later) a lovely woman gave me insanely hot chillis, and I was both annoyed at myself for gendering the situation and awed…

Anyway. I find it really helpful to note down what worked really well for me in the summer season, and try to commit it to memory for the next season…

Great ideas

I know this is a bit silly, but planting lots of flowers in the parts of the garden that I had cleared, but wasn’t able to manage well was a really nice idea. To do this you do need to have cleared the space- even if it is a small space that you then heavily mulched and cut tall things away from. And planting annuals that get quite tall- cosmos and foxgloves are a great option, or federation daisies if you are not going to get to it for a few years- also a great idea.

It’s just so lovely to walk through, although wading through the flowers to find my capsicum is a bit annoying.

Tiny pruning loppers (from Mitre 10)- the moment I saw them, I wanted them, but they were a bit steep at $90. Then for the rest of the week, in every garden I went to, I needed loppers which would more easily reach around other branches to make the cuts I wanted.