Armed with black weed suppressant, my other plan was to lay down paths. Every now and again, the site gets woodchip. Today there happened to be big two tonne pile rescued from a tree surgeon.
Between my ma and I, we have wheelbarrowed paths. Leaving seven large beds ready for the autumn.
Moved to the poly for the moment; so that the Wendy can be tidied.
Yes, there are lots!
Will be arranging the poly beds into a horse shoe soon.
These are lovely with their yellow fruit. Am rather looking forward to seeing them change colour.
No idea how hot they are!
I love Wendy. And this year it has earned it’s stripes housing to chillies. Today the Wendy had a refit. The Wendy has suffered with a poor cover. So now we have one that hopefully is a bit more robust.
On the turn. The sweet dumpling is starting to become mottled.
The of thsse
Three of these beauties have kept growing. Lovely to see how they have developed.
The cobnut, is all very leafy and large. And having lots of babies.
One, I’ve never grown a cobnut. Gladys was close. Two, never had that many babies. Counted at least four. The concern here is that if any of the babies are actually fertilised. Not sure if they are, flowers; both girls and boys are open. The girl ones, only just. The boy ones have no pollen in them, as I found out when looking into one.
These are the only surviving classroom leeks. Less than half a dozen. Maybe the plot has its own little microcosm. And I don’t know much about these variety. So I’m going to keep an eye on those.
The real seeds purple rainbow chilli has been by far the most prolific chilli I have ever grown. These beautiful little creatures have been arriving fairly frequently. One observation, these are very thirsty plants. If they don’t drink, their flowers fall off and they get very stressed. They can easily drink a pint of water a day. A pint. A whole pint glass.
Oh, and that’s Nigel. Refusing to go red.
Yours in anticipation,
Horticultural Hobbit
Marketmore cucumbers
I have become a bit fed up of seeing burgeoning tomato plants and the fruit still being green. I had experimented before, putting a few on the window sill. Only mother used them before they had a chance.
Have now harvested a few.
Some of them are huge. Some of them
are beautifully ugly. You don’t see that sort in the supermarket, now do you. With the exception of the cherry tomatoes, they are all of a tomato size.
These are all the plants that started their lives off in the classroom. The tiddler tomatoes that didn’t look much a few months ago. They are now beasts.
These could be any number of different colours. Red, yellow, purple or black. Contained in these trays, these are now sat in the four tier blowaway to ripen.
Yours in anticipation,
Horticultural Hobbit
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