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Blog Post. Recipe Garden Pots. Grow a Green Risotto in one Pot. sowitgrowitandfeast.co.uk
Crops In Pots 🌿
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Grow tent with foil insulation, all closed up.
Grow tent view inside, two heated seedling propagators and a growing shelf higher up to make use of all the trapped heat.
A fan that can be automated to turn on when needed and a spider grow light.
View inside the heated propagator. Thermometer, usb fan and seedling tray visible.
I've been enjoying everyone's indoor chilli starting setups, so I thought I would share my own. I've adapted a grow tent with some foil insulation, automated grow lights,heat mats and fans with propagators help create a few separate temp 'zones'. #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A black watering tray placed on a covered table. There’s a module tray filled with compost off to the right, a few tools in the lower-left, and an array of Tomato seed packets arranged in a very specific order in the top-left corner. Varieties include Alice’s Dream Cowboy, Gargamel, Sart Roloise, Rebel Starfighter Prime, Rose de Berne, Atomic Fusion and Black Cherry.
The black watering tray has a different module tray (again filled with compost but with a white label inserted into one corner). Another set of Tomato seed packets is arranged in the top-left corner. Varieties include: Latah, Red Alert, Tumbling Tom Red, Black Cherry and Lemon Sherbet.
🍅 Pulled the trigger on my 2026 Tomato season by sowing some seeds tonight.
I’ve been holding off about 2w later than last year as my plants got way too tall before I could plant them out in 2025.
One tray of taller types, the another cherries.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
🥬 The Lettuce that I’ve been overwintering inside the Greenhouse has all started to bulk out in the past couple of weeks 😘
Mighty pleased that so much survived - far more than I had anticipated - so I have a March glut ☺️
These’ll bolt soon.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
A green seed tray placed on an outdoor picnic bench, filled with 6x 10cm round pots. Each has a numbered white plant label poking out of the top.
🌶️ This tray contains yet more Chinense varieties, but generally at the slightly cooler end of the SHU range.
By growing two plants of each variety I’ll always have a spare, just in case 🤞
11/12 Hot Chocolate
15/16 KS Orange Flame
17/18 Fire
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A green seed tray placed on an outdoor picnic bench, filled with 7x 10cm pots with small Chilli plants growing inside them. Each pot has a numbered plant label poking out of the top, and the plants are paired with two of each variety, one above the other, other than the lone 7th pot on the right which is tightly squeezed in to optimise tray space.
🌶️ Thought I’d do a show-and-tell 🧵 featuring some trays of Chilli plants at their early March size.
These are part of my Chinense range. I’ve two plants of each variety.
1/2 Testarossa Orange
3/4 Moruga Scorpion
5/6 MA Warthog
7 Bengle Naga
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A single potted Chilli plant placed on an outdoor picnic bench in the sun. It’s in a 10cm pot with a white plant label stuck in the back, numbered 2. The leaves are a beautiful red colour and it’s quite stocky and bushy.
These two plants are identical siblings of the same variety, placed side-by-side on an outdoor picnic bench in the sun. They are numbered 1 and 2.
A green seed tray filled with 7x10cm pots and individually numbered Chilli plants for identification. Two are the gorgeous red ones shown already, the rest are typical green leaved varieties.
🌶️ Check out this absolutely gorgeous Chilli plant, v. Testarossa Orange.
How glorious is this?! ⬅️😍😘 My word ☺️
It has a slightly smaller sibling of the same variety ↗️
And a few relations in a tray, all are superhot Chinense species ↘️
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A grid of about 9 healthy looking Celeriac plants growing in a raised bed in about July, back in 2021. They are interplanted with Spring Onions between the rows.
Dowding opens his “How to Grow Celeriac” video with quite a daunting statement: “Celeriac is not an easy vegetable to grow.”
Fortunately I have managed it before 😮💨 though this was a few years ago, back in 2021.
This year I’m only growing a handful.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
📺 Then tonight I saw that Charles Dowding has published a “How to Grow Celeriac” on his YT channel 😯
Comparing our techniques, he noted seeds need light whereas I covered mine lightly with compost. Oops 🫢
But we both multi-sowed then transplanted ☺️
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
👨🍳 I’ve previously mentioned trying to cook most things from Anna Jones’ “Easy Wins” cookbook.
Some recipes require me to grow some veggies I don’t often bother with.
For a “Lemony Celeriac Schnitzel” I sowed Cel. seeds & transplanted into empty cells.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
📬 Received some fresh seeds from #SeaSpringSeeds.
Fennel/Dill are specifically for recipes from Anna Jones’ “Easy Wins” book, as mentioned👇
Plus some varieties of 🎃 and potted 🍅
Used all 🍆 seeds in January.
Pak-Choi var. that grows well over Winter ⬅️
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
A 4x7 cell tray full of burgeoning Chilli plants of various sizes. Mostly green with three that are quite red.
The same 4x7 module tray now has a bunch of gaps where I’ve popped cells out and potted up into numbered pots in further trays to the right. There are more shown potted up than can come from this tray as I took some from another tray with similar crowding starting to occur.
🌶️ Decided that it’s time to start potting up some of my early January sown Chilli plants as they’re starting to crowd and shade each other now.
A few went into taller pots, along with some others from another tray that have been growing fast.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
Blog Post. Space saving vegetable Crops to Grow: Big Flavours from Small Spaces. sowitgrowitandfeast.co.uk
Blog Post.
Space saving vegetable Crops to Grow: Big Flavours from Small Spaces.
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A wheelbarrow with some red gloves hanging over the side, filled with compost emptied out of a bucket and cracked in half to reveal a large number of decently sized potatoes.
The compost has been sifted by hand to reveal a huge pile of fresh garden potatoes that have been stacked up in a green garden tray, sat on the sifted compost in the wheelbarrow.
🥔 I tend to leave my potatoes in the ground until I need them - any leftovers then sprout in Spring - and that includes buckets that I’ve stored in the garage over Winter.
Just cracked open a couple to score some fresh garden spuds in February ☺️
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
A module tray full of very young Chilli and Pepper seedlings, placed on a shelf inside a sunny Greenhouse.
☀️ Got my little 🌶️🫑 seedlings out into the Greenhouse this morning now that it’s warming up. ‘Tis warmer out there than in here 🏡 so they can enjoy a few short hours of natural sunlight before they end up in shade from a still very low sun.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
🌶️ An IRL friend to whom I send annual 🌶️ Chilli Care Packages 📦 told me today that “I haven't had to buy any in about 3 years now. Ever since that first batch.” And she supplies her Mum too.
☺️ That’s a massive success. Sorry for the lost sales, Tesco! 😆
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
A close-up of some Chilli seedlings showing off their true leaves. Two in particular stand out because of their lovely pink/red leaves, tending away from the green of the younger leaves. A much more recently germinating plant is in the bottom-right corner, the same variety, but this time with the same darker colour for its cotyledons.
🌶️ One Chilli plant in particular is already producing truly spectacular leaves 😍
This variety is called “Testarossa Orange”. I got a third late germination which has similar cotyledons. I really only need two of these - one plus a spare.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A pair of bar charts showing Seeds planted/germinated by Species, and Average Germination Time by Species - Capsicum annuum/baccatum/chinense/frutescens/pubescens, and some Solanum melongena (Aubergines!).
🌶️ Here’s the germination breakdown by species in a bar chart rather than a raw table of numbers.
The annuums are so numerous because I’ve sown a lot of 🫑 I dot those around the garden and freeze as much as possible over winter.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A bar chart showing average germination time by tray across four distinct trays - Chinense (11d), Chillies (9d), Sweet Peppers (13d) and a mix of Chillies/Peppers (7d).
A spreadsheet style chart of my module cell seed trays sowing seeds, germination count, germination rate and average days to germination.
A spreadsheet style table showing data about individual species - annuum, baccatum, chinense, frutescens, pubescent, and Solanum melongena - and number of seeds, germination count/rate/time.
🌶️ Rather to my surprise, my 🫑 have been very slow to germinate this year 🤔 They’ve only just started erupting after ~2w, despite identical conditions.
2x Chinense varieties were a no-show, so I transplanted some double-sown extras to fill the 4 cells.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
🌶️ Just been picking out the cooler Chilli varieties I’ll soon be sowing in a 2nd batch.
I recalled that one of last year’s varieties grew so fast! Fortunately I tooted about it, so was easy to find. Padrón will be in end of Jan. batch w/ Buena Mulata.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
Some green and red Pak-Choi growing outside in a soil bed covered by a glass cold frame. A hoop for raising garden netting off of the plants sits above the plants, which I had covered with a layer of fleece through the cold nights.
🥬 Since the cold weather has passed us for the time being, I’ve taken the opportunity to take the fleece cover off of the Pak-Choi plantlings growing outside in the cold frames.
They look to be doing okay so far, despite some very cold 🌡️
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
🥬 Still picking fresh baby Lettuce leaves from the Greenhouse even while it’s all frozen outside 🥶
I cover these guys up with fleece overnight when it’s cold, but there are plenty of plants to allow the odd harvest here and there.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
🛒 I dabbled in veggie growing for few years, then levelled it up in 2020.
I’ve been tracking my annual grocery spend & have managed to keep food costs lower than 2020 despite inflation:
2021 ⬇️ 27.1%
2022 ⬇️ 35.2%
2023 ⬇️ 15.5%
2024 ⬇️ 14.9%
2025 ⬇️ 20.5%
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
Two primary rows of assorted Chilli seeds packets from ChilliChump and Sea Spring Seeds. A repurposed CD wallet holds bunches of seeds off in the corner. Everything is placed inside a long black tray sitting on top of a green table cloth.
The same long black tray with a 7x4 seed tray full of moist compost and dotted with holes for seeds. Two bunches of seeds are stacked together at the top, the seed wallet is off to the top-left, and a few little tools are to the left of the seed tray.
🌶️ My 2026 growing season is officially 🚦 with the sowing of a tray full of Chilli seeds.
This first tray is mostly my chosen Chinense varieties - most of the 🔥 hotties - along with a Pubescens as I understand they are slow growers.
Now in propagator.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A report from a garden WeatherStation on rainfall. Rain CURRENT DAY 24 HR MONTH TOTAL YEARLY AS OF JAN CURRENT RATE LAST STORM Start time: 21/12/25 @ 5:40 pm Storm duration: 1 Day 8 Hours 0.0 mm 0.0 mm 80.2 mm 625.4 mm 0.0 mm/hr 3.6 mm
🌧️ A lack of rain plus dry ground was a problem for me in 2025. I started rationing rain water very early on 😬
2025: 625.4mm ⬇️ (worst 📆 yet!)
2024: 1009.2mm ⬆️
2023: 827.6mm ⬆️
2022: 655.4mm (the year we had 40ºC Summer 🌡️)
🇬🇧 #UKWeather 🌡️ #WeatherStation 🌦
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📺 I was inspired by this “Any Greens Pie” recipe video from Plot 37 on YT, though I probably needed more leaves as it turned out!
So I compensated with more 🧀 and 🧅 which was 😋😆
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A bushy Kale plant growing out in the garden at the end of December.
A hand holding a bouquet of mixed garden greens above an outdoor picnic bench. A large plastic tub sits off to the side containing some freshly picked Pak-Choi leaves.
A freshly decanted square pie that has been made out of layed filo pastry, and is coloured a lovely gold brown, placed on top of a dark chopping board on a white kitchen worktop.
Slicing into the Garden Greens and Filo Pastry Pie we can see the inner greens and melted cheese.
🥬 Spent a little while out in the garden this morning harvesting some greens from a bushy Kale plus some growing Cauliflower and Broccoli plants, with a few Pak-Choi leaves.
Turned them into a Garden Greens and Feta Cheese Pie for lunch 😋
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
👨🍳 #AmBaking 😋
A repurposed CD wallet that I now use for storing seed packets. The wallet is open showing four pockets full of ChilliChump seed kits and individual bagged varieties.
On this later page of the CD wallet we can see four pockets filled with seed varieties from Sea Spring Seeds.
I’ve dug out the heated propagator unit, laid it on the carpet, plugged it in, and am checking to see that it heats up okay.
🌶️ In a few days I’ll start sowing the first of the 2026 season, so I’m beginning to sift through my Chilli seed collection to pick out new, favourite and returning varieties.
Chinense, you’re up first! 🔥
Also testing my heated propagator ♨️
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
A yellow bowl containing a large, ripe red Tomato (and a tiny one beside it), on a dark chopping board containing a hunk of recently baked bread and a few small-ish Lettuce leaves, freshly picked from the garden.
🥪 I think it’s time to chop into the last garden 🍅 of the season.
I yanked everything off the last of the plants as I cut them down last month, even the green ones. As long as they colour a bit at core they’ll ripen in a bowl.
Plus 🥬 from GH.
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A plastic punnet of ripe red Chilli Pepper v.CC Habanero Fire, placed on a snow covered outdoor picnic bench.
🌶️ Oh, yeah, and if any of my 🇬🇧-based mutuals are interested in placing a pre-order for the 2026 season*, just let me know!
*T&Cs apply: delivery October/November 2026 IFF I have a good year 😅
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