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This morning I made a cloche from two panels salvalged from the original greenhouse. I used Rob's old soldering iron to bore holes in the panels and joined them together with zip ties. I then planted out the first of the spring cabbages under the cloche. They were raring to go with roots poking out of their pots, so I'll have to get a move on and make more cloches this week so I can plant out all their brothers and sisters. I haven't gone quite as mad with the spring cabbages as I did with the other brassicas, but there are a couple of dozen of them.
Here are a couple of the cabbages enjoying the late autumn sunshine in their cosy new home.
I picked what I expect will be the last of the runner beans, as there's frost forecast for tonight. I think the beans have been my most successful crop this year - we've had oodles of them, enough to freeze some and give some away.
I'm also pleased that I built my bean supports well enough that they didn't collapse in the strong winds we've had this year even though some made by older, more experienced allotmenteers have succumbed. Don't get me wrong - I'm not pleased that other people have suffered damage to their crops, I'm just pleased that I didn't, even though I've had less practice.
This afternoon I need to fill a spray bottle with washing up liquid solution and spray the brussel sprouts which are afflicted with whitefly. Then it's down to Budgens for some vinegar and pickling spice, so I can pickle the beetroot from the veg box.
Here are a couple of the cabbages enjoying the late autumn sunshine in their cosy new home.
I picked what I expect will be the last of the runner beans, as there's frost forecast for tonight. I think the beans have been my most successful crop this year - we've had oodles of them, enough to freeze some and give some away.
I'm also pleased that I built my bean supports well enough that they didn't collapse in the strong winds we've had this year even though some made by older, more experienced allotmenteers have succumbed. Don't get me wrong - I'm not pleased that other people have suffered damage to their crops, I'm just pleased that I didn't, even though I've had less practice.
This afternoon I need to fill a spray bottle with washing up liquid solution and spray the brussel sprouts which are afflicted with whitefly. Then it's down to Budgens for some vinegar and pickling spice, so I can pickle the beetroot from the veg box.
busy
Next year we are going to have to get creative with space for planting as we've no room for rows of veg, and no space for a greenhouse. I'm going to try one of those tiered greenhouse shelf thingies, and hope it's stable enough in strong winds.
Did you ever see any of Geoff Hamilton's Ornamental Kitchen Garden programmes? (I spect you're too young :-)). It was a nice way of growing veg and flowers together so you got a crop and still had a pretty garden, and I think he did it in quite a small space too.
Probably worth anchoring it as firmly as you can manage...
Exactly what I was going to say. If it's one of those things that are basically a set of shelves with a poly cover it should be possible to attach some adjustable guy-lines and tighten them when Weather threatens.
Run a line from each of the top corners, and maybe an additional one from halfway down for Real Weather. It might look a little eccentric to other people, but you'll be the one smiling when you eat your own produce.