I've finally got some space in my greenhouse. I've planted a cucumber (Marketmore which aparently is supposed to be an outdoor one - eek !) and 6 x Roma, 2 x Golden sunrise, 1 x Gardener's Delight, 1 x Vanessa.
My sweetcorn has been out for a few nights now and seems to be doing OK. I've got two varieties - Tasty Gold and Extra Early Sweet, so I've planted them either side of the greenhouse to try and avoid cross polinating. I've planted them in a tighter grid than last season to try and help with polination. I've also thought a bit about protecting them from the wind. Fingers crossed.
I've planted 4 x courgettes:
7 x squashes - I think ! There are some more at home, in the attic - not sure where they will go. Got 2 x Queensland Blue, 1 x Crown Prince, 2 x Turks Turbans, 1 x Avalon & 1 x Winter Festival.
This is a QB:
I've planted 42 beans:
My peas are nice and safe in a pigeon proof cage:
My baby beetroots are coming along nicely:
This is the first year I've grown Swiss Chard, I'm very pleased with it so far - hope the bloody flying rats leave it alone.
Even the roots are an amazing colour !
My potatoes have appeared this week - fortunately they missed the frost.
The recent frosts don't seem to have done too much damage to the apple trees - this is my crab apple:
remember that mysterious tree - it must have heard me saying this was it's last seaon. It finally blossomed - it's obviously an apple tree. So that's 5 apple trees I have in one form or another.
My Alpine Strawberry has survived:
Pond skater
A very UNWELCOME visitor - OH fed it to the tadpoles:
It was enormous:
I'll draw a veil over the aromas from.... No, better yet, let's just not go there!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, serious question (puts serious hat on) - how do you get so many photos into your posts? Blogger seems to limit me to Five.
Woody, they're uploaded via Flickr, so it's probably something to do with size. I process them in 'Lightroom' or 'Photoshop' then export them to flickr and then copy them into my post using the HTML script.
ReplyDeleteCrikey. Respect! Perhaps I'll stick to five!! But thanks for the info. Feels like something to tech myself on a long dark day with no other pressing things.
ReplyDeleteThe slug was a Leopard Slug which do not eat your plants. They prefer fungi, decaying matter, carrion and even other slugs over healthy plants. They also have an amazing sex life, try googling them. I wouldn't kill one, they are actually kind of cool for a slug!
ReplyDeleteYou're brave with the chicken manure, not sure I could stand the smell it was bad enough when I dug mine straight into the plot!
ReplyDeleteyou upload five photos-then immediately go back and upload five more.....so you can have as many as you want. The difficult bit is adding them in the reverse order to which you wish them to be seen!
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