I had an interesting conversation the other day with the folks who are responsible of the Dartmouth Square Project and  Edenbee about our upcoming talks at Electric Picnic. During the conversation their resident gardening authority  offered a couple of tips to help put my tomatoes on the fasttrack to ripeness.

I followed up our conversation with [...]

It would seem for overwintering chilies, pruning is the way to go.

Chili plants – plant which was pruned on right
In an earlier post, I described how I wanted to check whether pruning my chili plants was a good or bad idea. I pruned one and left the other unattended. I wasn’t able to find any [...]

Bringing two chili plants together after a 6 month separation shows a remarkable difference in progress. As if to further punish the weaker of the two plants, I pruned it right down to encourage some new growth:

After much googling, forum posting, book reading and general conjecture from asking around, I found that the results were [...]