Martimart
House Bee
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2020
- Messages
- 202
- Reaction score
- 173
- Location
- Derby
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 4
Last harvest of this year's chiles. That there were enough to be worth harvesting at this time of year came as a pleasant surprise. I expected the ones I picked a few weeks back to be the last. Photobombed by jars of honey for "rent".
And another slightly different harvest. This was a sycamore that I had cut down last Winter. Didn't do it myself as it was overhanging some outbuildings and a greenhouse, so it had to be climbed and taken down piece by piece. Soon to be this Winter's heating. To cut the cordwood into suitable size logs I used my new battery-powered chainsaw which I bought because it was cheaper than getting the Stihl (which has decided it absolutely isn't going to start) serviced and shares batteries with my InstantVap amongst other things. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect of it, but generally I think it does pretty well. Not sure what it will be like for actually felling trees. I guess I'll find out in a few months time. I am going to need a few more batteries, but that's hardly the end of the world when I have other tools that also use them. This lot was enough to fill a 6'x4' trailer to overflowing twice over and the cutting ran two 4Ah and two 2.5Ah batteries from full to empty twice each (the saw uses two 18V batteries at a time).
James
Very nice chillies, I’ve done mostly paprika chillies this year, smoked them in the bbq and ground them into a powder, very nice. I think I got more chillies than tomatoes which have been very poor, and the cucumbers which I pulled up in August without getting any fruit at all. It’s been a strange year.