Despite the diabolical weather so far and multiple outdoor disasters life in the polytunnel is literally about to take off. It's already looking crowded this week -
The Ichi Kukuri squash have reached the summit (roof) and am wondering which direction to steer them in now -
Baby squash are appearing everywhere, oh damn forgot to count them -
My first cucumber is almost ready to harvest. I think tomorrow it'll be done -
Finally courgettes are forming on one plant -
Can you spot the green tomatoes hiding in the bush behind the photo-bombing marigold?
This is my melon which although not very long yet has loads of babies on it. It looks exactly like the cucumber but am not worrying yet as it is a close relative. I'm sure all will be revealed soon enough.
Behind the squash there are french beans which I've already had with my 2nd half of the cauli-cheeze dish -
The only things that are playing coy are the indoor cauliflowers. No sign of any heads yet but then they do tend to creep up on ya all of a sudden. I sowed another batch this week for outdoors for the winter hopefully -
Talking of sowing, I made the same mistake this year as last year trying to sow seeds in compost. I've had to redo about 5 trays which mostly failed. I made my own tray mix reusing old pots with dead stuff in em plus some other bits n bobs and redid a load of things. Just hope I'm not too late or we get another Indian Summer to make up for it?
There are still some spaces that need filling in this tunnel which is all my silly fault.
Oh I almost forgot, I saw a bit of life poking out the top of one of the corns too -
How very exciting it's all getting.
The peppers and a belated chili pepper are even starting to show signs of life. Any minute now it's all gonna explode -
As you can see I have fixed the camera problem. Wrong bloody batteries was all it was.
Outdoors and the battle of the Lardy Balls is continuing whenever the rain gives up. Saving that for an outdoor update tho so you'll have to wait for that exciting blurt.
Thanx for visiting my humble gardening attempts, I'm sure it will get better with time........
I neeeeeeeeeed ! a polytunnel , my squash is not growing fast , just 4 or 5 slightly bigger leafs close to the ground ,.. , while two squash i gave away after sprouting to be placed in the town pollytunnel are blooming and creating fruits already .
I am gonna starve without a pollytunnel in summer , or live of potatoes and sunshokes only next winter . I don't even dare sharing a picture of the sadness in my growing plots .
As a kid we used those white berry's as ammo for a blowpipe made out of electrical pipe . For multi shots we took about 5 berries in our mouth , for fast reload and shots . Adults seeing us take the berries where in chock , don't eat them ,.. hell no we said , they taste terrible , and we thanked them for the info about those lardy balls being poison .
Didn't keep us away from the cheep ammo do , but we where more careful , not to chew on or to swallow them . We all survived , even Hans his eye cured with in a few days . ;-)
It took the local government a few years to replace the lardy's , and took it very serious ( complains about white berries shot true every open window and more stuff might have helped ) to make sure they where all gone .
I have feelings for those berries yes ,.. but i feel not offended if you now choose to battle them , and wish you victory in your garden wars . ;-)
If I can do it, you can. I saved up for 2 years and then found this one going cheap. Yes I would not survive without it except for maybe growing pots and cabbage, broccoli..... the weather has been pretty bad so far. Cold and wet mostly. Some hot days are on the way so they say so I expect the explosion to happen then. Everything just seems to be waiting.
I don't hate the Lardy Balls but they are taking up more and more space which is allocated for stuff we can eat. Ur story made me laugh. Thanx. Save up a bit each week and you will have a tunnel too.
Wow the plants are coming along nicely 👍
I love everything I saw in those photos, because there is nothing like taking advantage of the spaces and produce our own food, I congratulate you for it, it is an example that many of us should copy.
Thankyou, very kind and yes we need everyone to learn how to grow food instead of sucking at the teet of big corporations. Hoping to inspire people.
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Here the pumpkins are easy to harvest, you throw the seed anywhere and they give you pumpkins, the cauliflower is more difficult... you have a great cauliflower harvest...
Right now I ate salad with cauliflower, I love it a lot as well as broccoli.
It's just too cold here for squash. I'm working on the back of the field which is the hottest sheltered spot for possible tender crops to try outdoors next year. Can't know if I don't try. The cauli's seem to love this weather tho, will plant more outdoors soon.