Pepper project last episode

Final inspection of the pepper project

With a good teacher

hard work and

a little help from my friends

we made it from here to

here, 96 pepper and 45 tomato plants.

Jó.

Parlagfü

Wind-dispersed pollen from Ambrosia artemisiifolia is a strong allergen to many people with hay fever why Hungarian law states that you have to take out all parlagfü plants/weed from your garden before June 1st or you will be fined.

Happy in Boldog

In the village Boldog (Hungarian for happy) we met small, medium, and large scale pepper growers and again we learned a lot.

For early spring outdoor bed planting a “Dutch Bed” is useful.

The bed is built on top of 40 cm manure where you put a frame.

Fill the frame with another 20 cm clayish soil.

Use the plate to make 1 cm rows

Sow the rows

Cover the rows with 1 cm soil and water.

Cover the bed and it will be warmed up from both the sun and the manure.

The large scale grower told us about the problems in the pepper industry

But also how to prune the plants.

You leave the best stem to continue to grow. Cut off blades and flowers not required.

Shortage of magnesium when planted causes the yellow spots.

Pepper chat in the shade of a Corylus

Erzesèbet drive a family greenhouse growing annuals, toamatoes and Hungarian paprika

She knows how to grow the paprika and gave us a free lesson

Balaton - unfortuantly I had to leave

The hills are covered with nicely maintained wine yards

Wine is produced by 44 major and many more minor wine yards on 3000 hectar at the south Balaton district.

I met Mr Hujber and his son who have a 15 hectar wine yard in Balatonboglár where they annually produce about 600 hectoliter grapes. Chardonnay is the main grape but also Zanit, Pinot Grey, Merlot, Blue Portoguise, Rein Reisling and the typical Hungarian variety Irsai Oliver are produced.

The Hujber family make wine of 30% of the grapes they grow

70% are sold on a longterm contract to the major wine producer in the region, former B&B - now owened by the German company Töreley famous for the Henkel wines.

The wine made at Balatonboglár winery is branded Chapel Hill a brand known outside Hungary but not in country.
The name Chapel Hill comes from a small volcanic hill near the village of Balatonboglár where you find these two chapels, one red and one blue. Both were built in the 19th century.

Archaeological research indicates that there had been a church on the hill since the middle ages, probably first built as early as the 12th century.

Hotel Kentaur, what a nice suprise...

Left my blooming pepper and

took the 9.03 train from Pecèl and arrived at Balatonboglár 13.04. Balatonboglár is a resort town on the south shore of Lake Balaton but also the professional centre of the Balatonboglár Wine Region, and is often called the "town of grapes and wine."

Shared this special hotel with ten hen party sisters who partied to next morning

The Hotel garden is nice to walk in

The spa

A four dishes tasty cooked dinner is served and “vater umpa” play german “bruderlein” music