Cat Amongst The Chilli's

Took this picture of Gizmo peering out from between two chilli plants the other night, sadly there was only a mobile phone to hand so the quality isn't great but it's still a great picture.

Starting Winter Lettuce And Spinach

I've finally got a plot to grow vegetables in from the adopt a garden scheme they are running locally. It's a bit late in the season but I got a packet of winter lettuce with a gardening magazine I buy and am starting some spinach. The lettuce seeds are coming up (you can see three in the back row) but the spinach seeds haven't done anything yet, it's only been a 2 days though so something is bound to happen soon.

I sent off for some new chilli seeds today I've ordered a mixture of "Scotch Bonnet" seeds as the TV chefs seem to keep going on about them so I want to see what all the fuss is about. I also chose variety that gives multicoloured chilli's called "Numex Twilight" the chilli's grow yellow orange and red as well as purple according to the photo's. I'm getting a variety that grows purple chilli's called "Purple Tiger" as well, and variety that has dark leaves and the chilli's grow black before turning red called "Black Pearl".

I can't wait it's time to strat growing them again as I'm really getting into growing chilli's, I'm amazed by how many varieties there are and how ornamental the plants can be.

New Wine Kit.

I started a new wine kit that claims to be drinkable in 7 days, it remains to be seen whether that's true or not, but it's certainly fermenting well. In fact it is fermenting so well it's bubbling up the airlock, I perhaps should have left more room at the top of the demijon when I filled it up.
It's called "Solomon Grundy's seven day wine kit the box has the slogan "started on Monday drunk by Sunday!" and it's Bilberry flavour wine apparently.
I'm sceptical as to whether it will really be at it's best after seven days as you have to add chemicals to these kits to stop the wine fermenting and clear it, and if you leave them just as long as the instructions say I find I can still taste them.
I also have an Elderflower wine kit to start off, that takes at least a month the last one I had (which was strawberry) I left for another month after adding the finings and the taste improved a lot.