This Colour Green!!!

 25th May 2022 - Grass, seedlings, plants and preparation

The summer preparations are forging ahead. Take a look at the lovely green bed of grass we have now cut for the first time. We didn’t cut the grass that short, just a clipping really as it was starting to get a bit long and lanky. We are really pleased with how it has come along, but are aware that this is the honeymoon period, let us see how it looks after we begin walking on it.

In the polytunnel we are taking care of all sorts of plants at different levels. We are nearly out of the frost potential zone now, and looking at the weather forecast, frost is probably done for this year, happy days.

At the other end of the polytunnel more seedlings and seedlings are growing. Plenty of brassicas with nowhere to go unfortunately so we’d better get the spades out. It has been a while since we have done serious spade work, more than a year now.

Up on the shelf, lemon / orange plants, tomatoes, melons or cucumber I think, and some random marigolds too.

Out front, things are shaping up: the Passiflora is taking off, and we’re starting to plant out the raised bed on the terrace. We’re looking for a nice show there again this year. The tomatoes appear to have settled in as well.

Down the bottom of the plot, the potatoes appear to be doing well, maybe the experiment will work, growing upwards, we’ll see. Everything is looking nice and green anyway!

In the last picture. We managed to rescue some old chicken wire from somewhere and have now installed this in the gap where we have added the polytunnel window. We will be leaving this window out till October to ensure things don’t get too hot, but we don’t want our furry friends making a b-line for the polytunnel and causing mayhem. We’ve tried to seal the polytunnel off with the raised beds pretty much the whole way around, so we don’t want to lock all the windows only to leave the front door open. Although we still have some stuff to move from the polytunnel, as we get around to planting out, space will become available to relocate this stuff… and we’ll be using some of it too!