More Plant Pics.

While I'm at the (winter-)garden pictures - here's some more:



This, according to the seed packet, is a "Tenessee Teardrop" chili plant. It's also supposed to have these light fruits, at least at the start. They should turn proper yellow later, then purple, then orange and finally red as they ripen. I'm looking forward to that. (And yes, I have a thing for chili peppers that have purple or violet fruits at some stage. Or black - black is fine with me, too.)

And it's now the time of the year that the physalis plant is starting to flower:



The plant is several years old now, and it stayed in its pot in the wintergarden all this year. It could theoretically move outside during summer, but I was too lazy to lug out the heavy pot with a very long plant support in it, and then lug it back in again.

The plant needs quite a lot of water, and will grow much better with regular doses of some kind of plant food, but otherwise it's rather uncomplicated. Apart from needing some support that you tie the very long stems to, that is. I prune it back vigorously after all the fruits have been harvested; that's usually the case in late spring or early summer. Flowers start again in autumn, when it's getting colder outside. The fruits stay smaller than those you can buy in the supermarket (though with enough water and fertiliser, they do get bigger than without). There's lots of them, though, and no transport for them - if you don't count the very short way from off the plant and straight into me!