February already??

15 February 2021

Boy the year is racing away.

It is really dry around the place with a lot of the trees dropping leaves and showing signs of stress.

We are starting to plant extra carrots & beetroot for winter harvesting (long as the weather plays ball). Chillies are planted in every spare bit of garden or tunnel house and today I filled the dehydrator up with the first real harvest of super hot chillies for sauces etc.

Plums & apricots are all harvested but volume way down on last year. But we do have a bumper crop of apples coming on and looks like heaps of feijoas setting.

Hoping to start producing dried chilli products this year (currently working through MPI requirements) watch the web site shop to see what develops.

photos above

1. yellow ghost chillies starting to ripen

2. zucchini in full production

3. baby swiss chard getting harvested for our Bitza Bags

4. carrots - a rainbow of carrot colours are planted and then it is pot luck what gets harvested (usually the coloured carrots are ready before the orange ones)

5. our lone babaco - hanging out to try these, Spring and the bottom fruit should be ripe

6. Valentines Day bit of spice

7. entries for Mr Chilli Awards 2021 posted today

8. outdoor chillies starting to set