The Potting Shed

[Tâf]

Mine is waiting for reasonable weather. In the meantime I have to resow some chillies and get the toms and cucs sown as well.

[Lisa]

If it's not dead in my garden. It's over grown

[Tâf]

If it's not dead in my garden. It's over grown

My lawn hosts wild animals I suspect, but it's still too wet to mow. The raised beds need to be cleared of spuds and dug over.

And the collapsed arch over the sun patio needs to be cleared of vines and remade. Luckily, I cut the grape and kiwi back hard, so it won't be sprouting amongst the wreckage.

Both compost bins have burst and I can't get new crates from the Uni as they are now all subject to "reuse" under a deposit system.

[Tâf]

Only half the Mini Munch cucumber seeds sprouted, par for the course, so I sowed another pack of 4.

The toms are up, and are now in the unheated prop with the sprouted cucumbers and what chillies have come up.

[Tâf]

I shall nuke some compost to repot the cucumbers. All the rest is being rather sluggish. The same lack of growth is being seen all over Europe in the growing groups. But it can't be temperature or light, as most are growing indoors under lights.

[Tâf]

Loads of bean sowed in the greenhouse, and catmint, marigolds and more tomatoes in the living room.

[Tâf]

The beans are coming up very erratically this year. 

I put the indoor mini cucumbers into their final pots in the greenhouse. Then I repotted the chillies and tomatoes to go back indoors until the overnight temperatures settle.

Outdoor cucumbers will be sown in the greenhouse soon.

[Tâf]

The outdoor cucumbers have been sown in the greenhouse, and the plants in the living room shuffled around under the LED lamps.

The Bluebell foliage is almost died back, so I'll be able to get the Marigolds planted in their place. I can't leave bare ground for long or the whole place will become a cat toilet.

All the growers I know locally have been moaning that, like mine, the cherries produced no fruits this year. Ditto their apples and pears. No quince forming either, and the currants are really poor.

Once the breeze drops to nothing I'll use a rake to bend over and bruise the invading marestails and spray them to kill the roots.

[Tâf]

I have emptied loads of pots and hanging baskets, cut back stuff that is going over, and attacked next doors' ivy and a tall bush that are trying to fill our garden. Once it is all hacked-up and binned, I will have space to put some of the climbing beans out.

[Tâf]

Glyphosate has not touched the Marestails, so I have sheared it down. All the waste has to go into the black bin or burned.

[Lisa]

Started kicking down some rotten fence. Might take a few years to get it done..

[Tâf]

I'm already picking Mini Munch cucumbers in the greenhouse.

[Tâf]

The 2 surviving JMOA Scotch Bonnets are now potted in the greenhouse. The 3 Crimson Crush tomatoes are in there too in larger pots before they move into the (Marestail infested) raised bed.

[Tâf]

I prepped the smaller raised bed for the garlic. It was a slog, but now it's done.

In the greenhouse the Chili plants look gorgeous, but no flowers of fruits this year.

[Tâf]

I pruned the Aronia so that the little Quince gets more light. I then cut back the Kiwi whips. Some were over 20ft long!

I then planted the last of the garlic I had.

When I looked into the greenhouse, the 2 chilli plants are still alive and in leaf!