Things in my garden which are not dead.

[ghoti]

Aldi has chili and pepper plants in their specials this week, and add I've had good experiences growing chili, I thought I'd give both a chance. They said transfer asap, so Judith and I did that this afternoon and I thought maybe it was time for one of these posts again. So

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[julietk]

Have you had actual figs on your fig tree? We got figs for the first time last year but then the bloody birds ate them before they were ripe. So I intend to net it this year. (And the grape vine/pergola, which had the same problem.)

[ghoti]

Not on this fig, it's much too small and new. But in a previous house we did, they take two years to ripen so the trick is to wrap the fruit in bubble wrap over winter.

[julietk]

Oh, thank you, I was not aware of that. But what with the warm winter & our south-facing central-London microclimate I think we may have gotten away with it -- there are baby figs on it already and I guess those must be the ones from last year that have overwintered.

[ghoti]

Yes, the ones on the tiny tree at the community centre local HE groups meet at survived the winter this year, where they haven't before.