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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Growing your own chilis

The other day, I found a dry chili in my fridge and decided to open it up and put the seeds in the earth, in a mini-greenhouse I bought in a "Tiger-store" for almost nothing. This was something I have really been wanting to try out, since me and B. (my husband) LOVE chili - and if his mother could do it in West-Africa, why shouldn’t I be able to do it in my kitchen-window in Iceland? ;-)


We didn’t have to wait for a long time for first green leaves to come out of the earth. The best thing is, I really didn’t have much work with it, because my mini-greenhouse did all the work for me (even the watering). When the small plants were big enough, I put them in some bigger flower-pots and then they exploded! I still can’t believe how big they have grown in such a short amount of time and the whole family is waiting impatiently for some chili’s to show up! This is so much fun - the next thing I´m going to try out in my mini-greenhouse are orange- and lemon-stones!

The first green leaves:

the first 2 leaves:

Today:

6 comments:

  1. congratulations to the green fingers..!!!

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  2. Thank you! They are quite new! :-D LOL

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  3. Vá! Hvað eru plönturnar stórar! Þær eru æðislegar! Til hamingju með þær!

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  4. Takk fyrir! :-) Hlakka til að borða afraksturinn!

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  5. Vá hvað þær eru orðnar stórar! Verður gaman að sjá þegar chili-ið fer að vaxa. Ég setti niður fræ í vor og það komu upp lauf og allt leit vel út, svo allt í einu einn daginn lognuðust þau bara út af.........enginn chili fyrir mig!

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  6. :-) Ég var einmitt búin að vera að velta því fyrir mér í morgun, hvort að nákvæmlega það sama gæti gerst hjá mér... en okkur tókst þó að koma upp plöntu af fræi, það finnst mér nú bara vera nokkuð góður árángur!

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