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5 May 2022

Covid has certainly put a spanner in the works for our plans as has the weather.

Start of May and we are still dry our weather station says we have had 0.6ml of rain for the year so far. :-(

This season we have grown nearly 40 varieties of chillies and slowly working out which ones we will continue to grow - could be some new products on the horizon. The chillies planted in beds outside have really suffered getting bashed by three lots of gale force winds but they have come back and are fruiting now.

Our eldest son is up visiting and the boys are busy pruning, hedge trimming, and mulching it all. I have been catching up on weedeating and sorting the chilli plants for winter. The old mushroom house (which is the warmest spot) has been filled with plant that are still fruiting but leaving enough space for starting seed.

The freezers are packed full of plums, tomatoes, apples, feijoas, tomatillos, passionfruit pulp, peaches, crabapple juice and chillies to make sauce etc with over the next year.

We have a few new sauces and rubs to do trial batches of and get a bit of feedback about.

Attended our first event under Orange so looking forward to more as the year continues. I love getting out meeting new people and showcasing our products.