You’ve got to keep an eye out for caterpillars. They don’t just go for your brassicas, they’ve even been eating our capsicum which are in the greenhouse.
Butterflies are so beautiful, but their caterpillars are voracious eaters. You need to remove them when you see them otherwise you’ll be left with stalks!
Our chilli germination rate this year has not been good. Only one of our 6 chilli seeds has germinated. Chillies can be quite tricky to get going, often taking up to 2-3 weeks to come up, but after 6 weeks in our airing cupboard I am finally giving up on them! I now have 5 freshly planted chilli seeds back in the airing cupboard (they need warm soil to germinate, ideally 25-30°C), and am keeping my fingers crossed.
We haven’t got very many capsicum pepper plants either. We think we planted these too shallow. So, I have planted another 3 and they are with the chillies. Our seeds are from the Real Seed Catalogue, “Kaibi Round No 2″ Early Sweet Pepper and “Iranian Round” Chilli Pepper. We grew the same varieties last year and they both did very well, so we are expecting the same again this year, if we can only get them started!
We’ve had a couple of our capsicum seeds come up with the seed still stuck on. This prevents the first leaves coming out and subsequently the plant fails to grow (I feel guilty!). The cause tends to be that the seed wasn’t planted deep enough or wasn’t watered regularly enough, so the seed covering never becomes soft enough to be broken apart by the emerging leaves. Next year, I think I’ll plant them a little deeper to prevent them breaking through the soil prior to them softening off enough.
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