Sowing Aubergines and Peppers + 'The January Cucumber'!! Ep197 || Plot 37 

Forgot to add the link for the new mini heat matt. Its now in the Show Notes but also here: amzn.to/3HlwOhV

Hey Jessie, I’ve watched you from the very beginning (lockdown) and you are very much my favourite gardener.. so happy you’re still able to put these vlogs out… life wouldn’t be the same without a dose of Jessie each week 😂 x x

Coucou 👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻 J'adore vos vidéos 😊 A bientôt

I am half Greek so i tend to try and sow heirloom seeds from Greece…i have two varieties of sweet peppers katsika and the makedonia ones which are great for stuffing.. Aubergines i have the typical black beauty, long black and the light purple ones with white lines , tsakoniki… id translate it if i knew what it meant 😂😂…. This is my fourth year growing now.. i started off with herbs on my kitchen window which escalated to shelves then to a 5mtr poly then i built a raised bed around the poly lol.. i made potato planters out of my old oak kitchen doors.. once ya start that’s it!!!…. 😂 i will try to grow anything… i even started a pomegranate last yr and i sprouted three black fig trees from seed and a grape vine… even got awaphui growing which is a wild ginger which produces these red flowers which produce foam for shampoo…🤞🙏.. non of me friends are into really just me.. but they all want your food when its grown..😂

When I saw Lily heading towards the escaped chickens, I thought it would end badly. I'm so glad that they are friends.😅

new mic 👏👏👏👏👏👏 blooming marvelous! Listen to how wonderful you sound 😊😊

💚💚💚Jessie, thank you for your videos. You inspire me. And teach me a lot. I grow about 20 varieties of jalapenos that are not very hot, because I don’t like very hot ones. But I like their different colors: rat, green, orange and yellow. This variety of jalapeno colors lifts my spirits. I have been growing eggplants for many years from my saved seeds. These are simple purple eggplants, but very suitable for my garden. I have a small garden, but I try to try a lot of things. I also grow a large collection of beans and corn. Thanks again for your videos. 💚💚💚

Hi Jessie and your Mum, how wonderful! Those penguins were quite shocked to see you, bless them 🐧 gorgeous fish & turtles too. I have sown, all year cauliflower, melba melon, sweet red pepper, dont know variety, (saved seeds) Louis F1 cucumber. So. I am going to grow along. Lovely video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

Jessie love watching your content it’s been a fab week of learning with everyone concerned loads of fun

Hello there. I like when you have extra bits like cooking, DIY, out and about all very enjoyable. Best wishes.

Thanks for the beautiful, relaxing video Jessie. 😊

Spent a happy hour this morning on the sofa watching this with a cup of tea. Thank you Jessie, I look forward to your videos each week. Pepper variety I'm trying this year is a bell pepper called King of the North (recommended by Eli and Kate and supposedly good for cooler climates). I'm growing the Violet Knight aubergine (purple version of the white one you have). Chillies: Bulgarian Carrot, Aji Lemon, Hungarian Yellow Wax, Jalapeno, Kashmiri Goa, Kerela Kerela and Ancho. Some of them have popped up but they were in the airing cupboard so they're pale and need some light! I need to get the grow lights out pronto! I'm looking forward to growing some of them outside (like Bulgarian Carrot) as they're supposed to be a bit more hardy than other chillies. Fingers crossed.

Morning ladies, snow 🤣🤣 that’s not ⛄️ snow. I always think to ask but forget do you have pictures of the allotment when you first took it on? It would be lovely spot see side by side of areas. It’s a balmy 1c today but snow on the way tonight. I’m doing nothing but onions 😂 because well I don’t have lights and heat mats. Have an amazing week ladies, keep warm, Ali 🥶❄️🇨🇦 Ps I think you saw my Instagram post about my frozen savoy and spring cabbage 😢😢😢

Went a bit mad this year with seed buying 😂. Last year was the first year of getting back into growing things, not had the space or an allotment. Unfortunately due to illness and injury the garden was finished in time to get the plants out but not in time to fruit so keeping fingers crossed for this year. Going for multiple varieties to try loads before I settle on my favourites. Aubergines: Chinese Green Round, White Casper, F1 Galine, Early Long Purple 2, Thai Orange, Striped Toga. Chillis: Korean Gochu, Hot Thai, Buena Mulata, Pearls, Spangles, Thunder Mountain Longhorn, Sugar Rush Peach, Shishito, Sweet Banana. Sweet Peppers: Alma Paprika, F1 Snack Mixed, Tangerine Dream, Colour Spectrum, Winner, F1 Cardinal, Corno di Toro Rosso, California Wonder, Habanada.

Had my first cucumber ready to pick, and my little chooks got in to it and ate half! And as my cucumber plants arnt thrivingvthis year that may well be my full harvest!!!

Hello I watch your films from Portugal. The climate is different, but I like your way of doing things, good disposition and authenticity. Good luck this year in the garden. I have also sown my first peppers, aubergines and tomatoes in the pollytunel. ❤

You certainly don’t have to stop talking when an airplane flies over, your mic is fantastic. Loved seeing around the aquarium at the beginning of the video. Please put something in between the shelf and the heat mat or you’re just heating the shelf and that will cost you more. Love watching your videos every week, they are fantastic ❤

❤love beginning with the fish jess 😊❤

New year hasn’t started for me yet. We’ve gone from saturated rain to freezing weather -4c last night & no sign of letting up but it’s Yorkshire (South Pennines) here. I’m not starting my chillies til feb as only got south windowsill above radiator. Onion sow along - slow progress but we have germination. My girlies were hibernating this morning - refused to come out until lunchtime. Great sealife bit & we have a turtle like that called Frodo. Good to see mum all wrapped up & fettling about.

Jessie,thank you for showing us the London attractions,I’m in Canada and would never see it without your videos!

Simply enjoyable every vlog you do, sowing chillies first time wish me luck 😊

Hi Jessie. You asked to be informed what we are sowing/have sowed in January. Here's my progress so far. Onions on boxing day: Bedfordshire Champion, Globo, Shallot Zebrune. Chillies on New Years Day: Apache F1, Havana Gold, Jalapeno M (Pizza), Padron (Tapas), Srilanus, Sugar Rush Stripey. Sweet Peppers: Black Knight F1, Astor F1, Elfo. Tomatoes last week: Artisan Golden Bumblebee (Cherry), Honeycomb F1 (Cherry), Kaleidoscopic Jewel, Red Cherry (Cherry), Summer of Love, Wooly Kate (Bush). Happy Gardening

Hey! Fab update (as always) I really appreciate how authentic you are -very brave being you for all of us randoms😉…. Definitely not something I’d have the confidence to do…but for those grey dark days in winter when I feel I need cheering up I do appreciate your (and others like JB/Tony etc) back catalogue of summer vids.. so a thousand thankyous for that 😊. You asked on varieties -This year I’m trying to rationalise varieties but grow more of each….so I’ve picked 3 peppers Frigitello, Californian wonder & Padron. I’m doing 3 Chilli’s- De cayenne (which I do every year and is my staple) I’m also doing Kashmiri and Anaheim. finally for aubergine I’m also doing 3 varieties.. I do Moneymaker every year as the bulk standard and find it very good, but this year I’m adding in Black Beauty and a Kew variety called pinstripe (black & white stripey)… I planted mine along with the Boxing Day onions.. so they are all up - which I now look lovingly at each day. Not doing the cucumber.. because I’m not a huge cucumber fan..but your thought on the melon has made me curious - so I think I’ll do that experiment with you. BTW loved seeing Nemo and Crush in the aquarium 🤣.

You could add a layer of insulation under the propogator and the heat mat so not to waste heat warming up the shelf underneath. A slab of polystyrene for example?

We’re trying January chilli/pepper/aubergine sewing for the first time! Just waiting for my heat mat and lights to arrive. One of the best bits of gardening is the experimentation 👩‍🌾🧡

Thanks

That mic does make a difference, fab vlog Jessie 🥰

Working my way through your great videos just watched stuffed courgette video really good and yes would love to see more .🌺

Hi Jessie, lovely video again. Going to have a go at growing a cucumber this month, a trip to the garden centre later. Globo onion seeds are in, waiting a bit longer before the chillies and peppers go in.

The new mic has made this channel even better and really professional.

Hey Jess! 🙋🏻‍♀️ There’s more to life than just gardening. Thank you for sharing the aquarium with us! Cindy

Hi jessie I never thought to protect my chard as my first winter of growing it, I'm growing corner di toro mixed sweet pepper but that's it at the moment, 🌶

Do Ya Do Ya Do Ya says Dory, great share with the aquarium immediately thought of Nemo 😆what a difference the new mic has made Jessie 👍great video and as usual loved the wine chat at the end, you and your mum take care see you next week Steve

Another exciting vlog from Aquarium 37 .

Hi, I believe Petra's peppers will be sweet varieties, not chilli's. Outside UK, we call sweet pepper = paprika. Xx

Wherever I look on You Tube I see Jessie. You really are the Queen of the Screen.

Loved the Aquarium!

Hello Jessie, I’ve been watching you now over a year and your such a delight to follow, always a motivator, and informative I give you credit in helping me with my garden last year. I finally was able to actually have a good harvest of so many vegies last year. And am excited to start up my garden again this coming spring. Although I have to wait for another month as I live in Oklahoma, in zone 7b. Loved you fish aquarium tour love it. Lily had such a beautiful eyes and face not sure what bread she is. And she don’t even bother your chickens, was watching in the video and thought oh no… but she just walked on past them. I’ve never grew micro greens before and I don’t think I would be interested at this time maybe some day. Thanks for showing which seeds your sowing in I’m making notes to give them a go. Say hi to your mom. And cheers to you. Have a blessed day take care!😊

Beautiful fish! What a gorgeous world we live in 🥰 thanks for that, it really brightened my evening 😊

I grew listada last season and the biggest they got was about 10 cm. 🇨🇦❤️. I started them indoors and then put them outside in a raised bed. Both of us found them rather tasteless so no aubergines this coming season.

Mic is working really well Jess and we can’t hear the planes either. It’s really great👍

What a relief! I was so happy when you remembered the microphone!

Going to try Bhut Jolokia. I'm not a fan of hot, but my buddy likes it, so he's going to get whatever grows.

Hi Jessie, thank you so much for sharing the aquarium trip!! The video look so clear & professionally done!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I have some of the arches like yours. What a great idea to re enforce them with canes on the top!! I’m going to copy your idea!! Much love ❤️ to you & your sweet mum from across the pond!! 🤗🦋🇺🇸

Just sowed the first of my peppers with you chatting along in the background. Going to have a rummage through the rest of my seeds...

That is an awesome aquarium! Thank you for taking us on a lovely trip!

I love the central london bits so many memories!!

Loved it thankyou 😊

I love the London scenes. The new microphone is brilliant. Great video💥

Jessie ,you are sounding much better with the mike Good to see the addition of the heat mat ,but as your using it on a metal shelving unit might be a good idea to put a layer of cardboard between the shelf and the mat so as not to lose heat by warming up the shelf rather than the seed tray hope they grow well for you x.

Hi Jess, to be honest I din't much notice the difference in sound volume between when you didn't have your mic on and when you switched. Heard you loud and clear over the allotment recordings and at the cheers. Loved the blogs etc this week, especially this one. So much info and interest crammed in. Thank you so much. Happy gardening 😃

19:45 hi jess,just a little tip for ya arches if you paint over the screws n joints of them with hamerite itll reduce the risk of rust.x

Nope ! Planes aren't a nuisance anymore 🎉 love your blog & London Eye & museum, super !

Enjoyed the fish, very relaxing.Thanks.

I'm trying to overwinter some chillis again (they all died on me last year): Serrano, Explosive Ember, Hungarian Hot Wax and Jalapeño. Am keen to try some new ones this year, too - will take a look in the comments for inspiration!

I don’t have a poly tunnel or greenhouse so I grow everything outside 😅 I will be sowing aubergines soon and have black Beaty and sweet chocolate to try

Hi Jess, your mic was working great at your plot because I couldn’t hear the planes going overhead. I like the Black Beauty eggplant; I like using it to make eggplant parmigiana.

It was such fun seeing the "Eye" again. We were in London about 5 years ago and we rode on the Eye and, What a view! We also did the Duck tour. What a blast! We didn't get to the Aquarium so it was such fun watching you and the fish! Happy New Year and hope 2024 brings you much happiness. Keep wearing that mic. I have one just like it and it encourages me when you wear it that I must wear mine also. Planes, Trains, Trucks etc all interfere with my audio. Mary Born, ND

Hi Jessie-another great Vlog-thanks. You forgot to link the Heat Mat. Could you also link the GrowLights please?

The only chilli peppers I grow are Fresno peppers. They’re the perfect heat for so many of my dishes and they’re just always so perfectly beautiful and plentiful. 😊

lovely video loved the fish well done jessie

I found if I stripped all the lower leaf off eggplant it bung out so many I couldn’t eat them all try one plant and see if it works for you leaving only top 4 leaves

Awesome video loved the aquarium, aren't those jellyfish just beautiful!? Nice selection of choice for this year's grow. Always do well with cucumbers in bags at waist hight and regularly fed without sitting in hot water all day. Few eggs shells along the bag to keep slugs at bay and you're off to a winner! ❤

And I thought you were building a shelf for sewing. I thought, oh good, dressmaking.

Was going to grow Socrates but they were £4.85 a packet I thought that was far too much money so I left it and stuck with marketmore and Crystal apple and telegraph. Havnt sown anything yet but I getting everything ready👍

Ever so glad we still get the plinky piano music now you’ve got you fancy-schmancy mic. 🤣

We can still hear you Jess

Hello Jessie, this year I am only going to grow two kinds of aubergine plants. The Listada de Gandia and the Ping Tung. The Listada is a medium size compared to the black beauty. The white knight looks just like the Ping Tung only it is white. I have grown all four of these and this year I'm gonna focus on just these two. So I think you'll be happy with the ones you're going to grow. This year I am changing my focus to growing fewer varieties of everything and maybe more of those I choose. Sort of like the single seed challenge where I'm trying to get the best out of each individual variety. I grow an ajvarski pepper which I will use along with the listada aubergine. I roast both of these peel them he raised them together with some other spices creating a sauce that I put into smaller jars and cans to be used throughout the year has a spread or a dip. It is an Eastern European sauce made with many different recipes. My wife is Slovakian and so we cook a lot of recipes from that region combining them with all the other recipes we have. There's a lot of fusion going on. So the intention is to grow the ingredients that I want to use and preserving and or cooking for the year because many of these items you cannot buy at the store and cannot afford to buy on the Internet. It was really great seeing you more regular on the potty mouth and the episode with Tony this week. Also the extra episode you put out this week. Cya next week take care bye for now. Steven

Have you ever lifted and moved Chard? I rotate my beds and if I don't have to re-sow it would be great.

I just came in from opening our flock house and warming over coffee when I see you don’t have WARM weather resistant gloves 😢 I have several pairs, but today was alpaca gloves under water proof gardening gloves because it’s 22’F in a snow storm. I strained summer herbs infused in honey yesterday so the strained herbs with a little sweetness still inside were a treat to my flock with their larvae and pellets. 😊

Brazillian beak peppers, CA wonder, cubanelle, poblanos, manji, salad peppers, purple beauty, habanadas and Japanese long eggplant.

The sound was fine however, I''m having trouble feeling sorry for your temps near 0 as we reached -45C over the weekend where I live. LOL I have successfully grown Minnesota Midget but must put it in the most protected, hottest full sun plant space I have. If you like the flavour of sunflower, they are very easy to grow microgreens in a shallow tray of soil. You can even use sunflower bird seed. Also mung beans make great bean sprouts from beans purchased at a bulk food store. You can grow them in a strainer in a dark place, just rinsing twice daily for 4 or 5 days. Yummy crispy sprouts. Instructions on Souped Up Recipes YT site. Cheers!

We need to restock our pickles this year. Boston Pickling, Socrates, and possibly Salt & Pepper are going in.

It's been great seeing you on RU-vid so much in the last week 😊 I don't have my heat mat etc out yet but I am going to try the Sugar rush peach stripey chilli as it looks so good. Fail safe King of the North peppers and save the rest of the space for tomatoes 😊 Hope we have a better season.

Loved it all 🐝👏🏼👍🤗

The thing is its not just the dirt cheap compost that's bad, ive tried alot of the stuff thats say £5-6 a bag as I thought well it must be a bit better if the price is a little higher, wrong! it was terrible. Ill happily pay a couple of pound more for melcourt any day

Seems like our Australian summer is following yours, currently raining and only 13deg, I'm not holding out much hope of actually anything ripening outside this seaon

Cheers to seed starting! On this side of the pond I just started a few ghost peppers, trinidad scorpions, some sugar rush stripey and a datil cross. My go to aubergine is always Patio Baby because it grows so well outside, but I may try a chonkier variety this year also - you never know what might "jump" into the cart at the garden centre. Looking forward to watching your pepper farm take shape! ;-)

Hi Jessi fab content as always. This year I have an indoor heated grow space with lights YAY, so Im giving aubergine violetta di firenza a go this year, I managed to sow them in the first week of Jan along with sweet peppers, onions and leeks. Already have lots of different spring onion, mustards, and spinach already sprouting in the greenhouse. Thinking of sowing celery, broccoli and parsnips next, but hope I'm not doing them too early. You know how it is with us giddy gardeners itching to sow seeds lol

Thx for sharing the aquarium 😊 loved it, so beautiful ❤ this vlog has motivated me to get my seeds started 😀 hoping our melon experiment works 😉 🍻 ❤

I've never grown micro greens but my daughter asked me to grow some watercress this year. No idea how easy it is to grow watercress but I'll give it a go. 🤞

Hi i had a set of the seed trays about 50yrs back ❤

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Always enjoy your videos so pleased I found your channel to keep my motivation going. Could you share a link to which heat mat you bought off Amazon? Looks like a useful size need to get my chillies and peppers going

Hi Jessie just to let you know have followed you from the beginning and so enjoy your videos. I have an allotment in south west Scotland but feel it's too early for me yet to sow chillies as lack the space to set up with lights etc just but got success last year sowing at the end of February and kept them on a sunny windowsill until mid May as we can get frost as late as end of May beginning of June

Your gallivanting about UK is what separates you from every other gardener here. The camera usually needs to be reset in order for the microphone to sync. And you can always edit the volume within your editing software.

Greetings 🍷Compostgate 2023?

Hello Jessie i hope to have a go at the cu like i do each year and a melon. I have a quick basic question about micro greens, do you eat them raw for in salads or do you steam them?. Love the channel, not missed a single episode, hit the like button too 😊. One other small question do you plan still to extend the size of your polytunnel, i think if you did it would be great, or if not maybe you could make a low plastic tunnel on a bed just for some of your lovely peppers or some melons later in the year.

Micrograms, wash the seed first, it usually has mold on it that is an inhibitor !😊

ive not had much luck with aubergine i get big plants lush looking leaves and flowers but the fruit are either really small or non existant but this years im trying a new smnaller one called violet little fingers which are meant to be pretty small but super cute and huge harvest ,,, we will see ,lol maybe i dindt feed mine enough ?

Fab vlog .. Im growing cayenne, Hungarian black,sweet chilli thor,red marconi and Californian sweet and i may consider doing habanero white again but its so hot that I ended up with a zillion in the freezer that we are still working through them

I can't grow aubergines unfortunately. I've only got windowsills - no polytunnel or greenhouse - and all my space is taken by chillis peppers. Chillis come first for me. Maybe one day I'll have space for both. In terms of Chillis I'm growing: Razzmatazz - a small multicoloured annuum chilli. One of those that are seen as ornamental but I love the taste. I use them fresh on Chinese food. Very beautiful plants with the different yellow, orange, purple and red fruits but also the foliage has lovely small, dark green leaves. Killian - An orange cayenne. I always grow a regular unnamed red cayenne for chilli flakes but it's not very productive so wanted something better and this was recommended by the owner of Sea Spring Seeds. Will see how they get on. Joe's Long Cayenne - Same as above. I never have enough chilli flakes to last through the year so I'm hoping growing a really long chilli like this will mean a greater overall yield. I usually also grow hotter chillis like Habanero/Scotch Bonnet which I tend to use for fermented sauces but I'm having a break from that this year. Had a disaster with last years ferment going bad so have been a bit put off from doing ferments. Maybe will get back on that next year.

Hi I'll definitely try the mics soon. I bought some but they are useless.

Hi Jessie ,was wondering where did you got your new shelving unit your starting your seeds on please?

Cucumbers and melons in January? You’re crazy lady but who knows stranger things have happened indoors. I like aubergine (eggplant) but for some reason I just can’t get myself to grow them. Maybe…. My pepper list this year is a sham: Big Jim “hatch” pepper, Early jalapeño, Orange Spice jalapeño, Habanero (first time sowing), Habanada, Chervena Chushka pepper (Bulgarian), Napoleon Sweet pepper, and finally Yolo Wonder sweet bell pepper. When Yolo was late germinating I stupidly ordered MORE seeds. Hah! Currently most of them have germinated on time. So will probably sow more after seeds arrive along with some flower seeds. Wink, wink.😊

Hi Jessie, Your sound is now fantastic. I love the leaves scoopers you were using. Where did you get them from ? They look like a great time saver. As ever, thanks for the great work .

Another fantastic youtube video, Jess. Im with you on the melons. Im trying mine early this year in the hope of a better harvest 🫰 lots of love Kim xx

Great video! Could you add a link to your grow lights as well please? :)

Microgreens, hate txts !😅

I think you have persuaded me on trying a cucumber... I don't really have inside space but I really want to do it now! I am guessing the main considerations will be choosing an all female variety and also one with smaller fruit. Anything else I need to consider? Pepper wise I am also giving Lipstick a go in the hope I can actually get an outdoor harvest. Also growing an outdoor chilli from real seeds called Nigels Outdoors Chilli.