I have held forth before about the Lime Bearss trees and my love for them (ok, the fruit and the smell) and they are still getting primary care in the garden. Daily watering and leaf-checks to remove any "nasties" that may have alighted during the night. Current status is good with quite a lot of fruit on each tree. "Junior" has more, but still pretty small, with only a couple reaching egg-size. Bear2 has had different attention, as the garden centre had been a bit brutal with it and cut branches in a few places - and in one area broke and split a branch. Having seen an ant (ok, two) on the trunk, I thought they might be making an ant-line for the damaged bit, so went out and bought some pruning wax. Duly applied, and surrounding stones checked for ants´ nests, I will just keep a wary eye on it.
Our gardener is more of an entymologist than worker - he busies himself with finding beasts on almost anything. I pointed out to him that in summer in spain the garden, indeed the whole of spain, is usually covered in lots of "bichos"- to which he replied that most of them were politicians!
Another plant under close attention is a little chilli that G picked up witha view to spicing up my menu (even more).
Today I pulled the first "fruit" from it - and as you can see it is absolutely beautiful. About 1 1/2 inches long and slightly grooved. The question is, what is it? The plant was just labelled as a "chilli" when G bought it.
I have a horrible (actually delighted) feeling it might be a habañero.
Homegrown fire! I will report once tasted (if I survive at 325k scovilles!). Actually a strange one to sell in Spain, as the spanish are notorious for their dislike of anything too picante.
Currently I am dieting during the week, with my main daily meal being a bowl of gazpacho with chopped tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and chillis. Adding this tonight could be a delight or a disaster.
* cut the finest sliver from the bottom and touched it to my tongu. WOW! deffo a hot one.
(but added 2 slices to my gazpacho without major incident)
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