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cab
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BahamaMama
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45672 Location: Essex
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 07 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Good idea.
Chillies:
Thai Hot Dragon
Regularly my best yielding chilli, very hot, sharp pointy chilli, bit bigger than most Thai types.
Thailand
A huge plant if you let it be, chillies are bigger than THD but nowhere near as prolific or early.
Thai Hot
A bit like Thai Hot Dragon but a lot smaller, hence very fiddly. I prefer either THD or Nepalese Orange.
Nepalese Orange
2nd best yielding, bit fiddlier to pick as the chillis are smaller, good clean taste, actually ripens to red, not orange
Korean Hot
Highly recommended but I never had much luck with it, only tried it once so might just have been something I did.
Charlestown Hot
Funny shaped chilli, very pale green ripeniing orangey red, slightly fruity flavour, not a huge yield and quite late ripening
Fatali
A habanero type fro Ethiopia, really vigorous, really hot, not a brilliant yield but worth it, nice colour and shape, it's a bright yellow fat pointed crinkly thing.
Jalapeno
Vigorous and early, always a good standby, does well outdoors. Not overly keen on the flavour except for sauces and stuff, usually a good crop. Medium hot
Portugal
A lovely really big long chilli, like Indian (cayenne) types but 3 times the size, can be quite hot but usually fairly mild. Late ripening and not a brilliant yield but one I like a lot.
Ring Of Fire
Allegedly prolific, precocious and really hot. I've tried it twice and it was none of the above, a disappointment.
Elephants Trunk/Bangalore Torpedo
I find these indistinguishable. The kids love them because they're really long, thin and twist and turn to all sorts of shapes. Not particularly hot, early or prolific.
Westlandse Lang Rotte(???)
A fairly large cayenne type chilli with an extremely tough skin, early and prolific but nothing else to recommend it.
That's all I can remember off the top of my head.
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cab
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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cab
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treaclepuss
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cab
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Cathryn
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cab
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tahir
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 07 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Radish Cherry Belle
A round red radish that can be harvested right up to golf ball size, good crunch and nice heat
Dwarf French Bean: Purple Teepee
Really productive, nice beans
Orach: Red, Purple, Green or Yellow
Much easier than spinach, very productive, robust plant and you can save seed unlike spinach where most varieties are hybrids.
Cucumber: Wautoma
A really good outdoor cucumber, productive, hardy, and tasty. |
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