Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Chilli and Cape Gooseberry

 


Hot chillies, cape gooseberry and a stray violet which I accidentally picked while tidying up the sprawling cape gooseberry bush.  The ripe fruits I found on the ground, and the unripe, green gooseberries in their green lanterns were on a branch I accidentally cut.  They will not go to waste as I can use them in a fresh sambal.  They are quite tart.


This variety of very hot chilli ripens in winter.  They have to be protected from the frost or I would end up with burnt chillies fit only for the compost heap.


The Cape gooseberries do not ripen at the same time.  The ripe ones drop onto the ground and I have to remember to look for them.  

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