It's the first Saturday I've been home in what feels like months. The Habanero fermentation is bubbling in the kitchen. The fridge is...

After a few days away I return to devastation in the greenhouse.   I’ve spent more than six months going out every night and removing...

I seem to have spent a lot of time in trains and cars and boats and planes the past few weeks, then in bookshops and galleries and...

The past couple of days we’ve had quite a few Cayennetta ripen - around fifty. They’re a pretty simple-flavoured hot pepper and they’ll...

‘I wrote this book because . . .’ I say as I walk Puffin through the woods.   ‘Ultimately, it’s about . . .’ I say as I’m watering the...

I was meant to be doing a barbecue for Sarah’s parents while they’d all gone swimming, but as I was wheeling out the cooker from the...

The end of July has seen a number of the peppers accelerate, although the wet has also seen the slug population accelerate too. I've seen...

I recently noticed the yellowing of some leaves in the greenhouse and a couple of plants dropped their leaves. I’ve been pretty attentive...

At the beginning of the year I hadn’t even heard of the Cayennetta but right now, as of 3rd July 2024, it’s just about my favourite of...

Intro I’ve grown peppers idly for a number of years but only a few varieties. Cataloguing what’s been happening and when it’s happening...

7th June. Cutting off flowers feels a bit Addams family but that’s what I’ve been doing. I mentioned this process last time but thought...

Until recently I was sitting on the floor of the greenhouse to write, enjoying the wildlife that was passing by or through - goldfinches,...

Confession: I dismissed a whole species. The Baccatums. I have two Baccatum types growing, the Peach Sugar Rush Stripey and the Zebrange,...

I have some chilli plants to give away. When ordering seeds from a grower in Wales I was given a free pack of mixed hot pepper seeds....

12th May May is a busy month. Every day I’m potting up, planting out or moving the peppers. They’re all growing slightly differently. I...

10th May Every morning and evening I’m taking the chillies for a walk. In the morning I take the plants out to the greenhouse and in the...

I give very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. I find myself making some basic mistakes. Mistakes I know not to make and have made...

The cat has moved into the greenhouse. I’m dropping hints, like putting in preparatory bamboo cane stakes, but he just curls himself...

All the seeds are up so yesterday I took out the heat mat and we’re just relying on the Cornish weather now. Yesterday that meant...

Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and...