I found a few meters of cattle fencing and made myself a cage 75cm wide x 80cm high. I'm open to offers if anyone needs one!
My melon seeds have germinated today after 7 days. Looking forward to getting these in the greenhouse.
Day in the life of a grower who has just upgraded to an allotment, day to day updates of how and what is going on whether its in the garden, greenhouse or on the allotment. Everything about growing from seed to table and everything in the middle. Hopefully interesting, informative and honest. I will include the fails and the successes. Enjoy the journey each season.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Leaf mould cage
Friday, 21 February 2014
Meteor peas
After the three day bedridden chest infection I ventured out to the garden centre for some seed compost. I then decided to rearrange the bench/shelf in the greenhouse which duly fell down. I looked and looked for some clips to support the guttering for the first early Meteor peas and found if I wound some wire around a nut on the end of the a greenhouse bolt I could suspend the guttering. And after fixing three of these wire noose's I found three large shelf brackets and started out all over again.
So now by the end of light I had managed to fill one lenght of guttering with grow more veg compost and forty to fifty peas.
I've hung a basket in the gh to acclimatise ready for some tomatos in the next few weeks. I planted up a pot of lemon grass but I've not had much use in the kitchen for this in the past so not sure why I bothered but I do love to grow stuff.
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Ill in bed
This is day 3 in bed with a chest infection. But looking out the window this weather isn't the best either.
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Rain again
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Potting on compost shortage
Managed to get to Knights garden centre for some John innes number 2 to pot on the chillies, but they hadn't ordered any in. So ended up with some Grow your own vegetable and fruit enriched compost. 2 bags for a tenner 50ltr each.
Got a couple of seed tray lids (unheated propagators)
I added a load of W clips to the polycarbonate greenhouse sheets to stop the leaking roof due to the wind. Also WD40 on the louvre window, but didn't get to fit the opener. Another day...