Hail! Hail!

The great hail shower of 10th June 2011 has caused devastation. Fully thirty plants have now been fully hardened off and potted up. The first chilis are moving rapidly towards ripe maturity. Even the twelve spindly weakest chilis, most of which are from older seeds, are being hardened off. On our return from Nandos yesterday evening we discovered that the plants had been pounded by a hailstorm. A coating about an inch thick lay on each of the pots. The Habaneros apprear to have suffered most, losing about a third of their leaves and suffering damage to almost all those that remain. The Tepins also suffered badly. Some of the spindly twelve lost most of their leaves.