Veggie Growing

Hi Everyone

I wanted to share with you the way Dave sorted out my greenhouse shading – he came up with a great idea.  He put lengths of 1 inch x 1 inch timber along both ends of a quantity of shading material, sewed it into the ends and then attached it by garden twine on to the gutters of the greenhouse tops.  This keeps the shading from blowing away in the wind and also keeps the heat off the roof of the greenhouse, ensuring it does not get too hot at any time during the season – it has worked magically and kept everything in tip top order – So pleased he came up with that one and wanted to share it with you all!

Hi Everyone

Wanted to say that this year is the first time I have attempted to grow aubergine plants.  The snails and slugs loved my seedlings so I was only left with one that romped away and it was large enough today to go outside, Dave planted it out for me (below is a pic of the potted plant in my hand before Dave planted it).

Courgettes have done well for a second year – and with Dave’s help, have had 3 from my harvest so far and there are 8 more forming!  Hurrah!  Actually the 3rd one harvested had become a mini marrow!  As for the mini french beans, peas,mangetout and broad beans from my mixed bean and pea bed, I have had another good harvest and when  do next year’s crop rotation, I will definitely have a similar bed elsewhere in the garden, IT HAS BEEN A HUGE SUCCESS!!!  (Pic below).

Cucumber plants x 3 are doing well in the greenhouse with little cucumbers starting to form – Hurrah again!

I am well pleased that despite my forced respite and therefore my inability to do my normal work in the garden and greenhouse, my early work has paid off really well!

By the way, second pic – behind me on the left, is a huge bronze fennel plant, apart from the fact that you can eat the seeds – adding them to mushrooms and other foods for extra flavour, you can also use the fronds in salads and if you want to did the whole plant up once it has seriously matured, you can eat the bulb in salads.  Another good thing is that the flowers attract a mass of hover flies and bees!

HAPPY GARDENING ALL!

Hi All

My foot is now at the point where it aches but is not painful like it was.  It is still a little swollen but much better.  The next two weeks is when I gradually start to rehabilitate to doing normal things, little by little, so today, I sat down in the garden and repotted a few things, while Dave, my Husband, took some pics and also dug out some weeds and put out a couple of tomato and other plants for me.   I am pleased that Despite my lack of attention to the garden over the last few weeks (Dave has been watering everything but otherwise no work done) that other than a lot of weeds, my plants have done well – a testament to the quality of the seed I get from vegetableseeds.net!

My beans, peas and mangetout have done very well indeed, as have my tomato plants, mini sweetcorn plants and spinach.

I have  a pic below of me holding some of my rhubarb and some shallots just harvested and a pic of Dave, digging out some weeds for me!