sunshine garden time

In the last 2 weeks since I last posted the weather has become much better and my little garden is thriving!

Tomatoes

These little guys are doing excellently and I have so many I'm not sure what to do with them so I am planting them all over the garden to see which ones do best!

These are some Yellow Plums which were busting out of their little tray and are now scattered all over the garden.

Some of the tomatoes are still in pots but the biggest ones have been moved out. I am experimenting with putting some of them in the ground, some have gone into individual pots, some are sharing with other plants - just to see what happens!

These bad boys are the whippersnapper cherry tomatoes so hopefully they will bush over the edge and I will have cherry toms hanging down!

I put this basket up with my lovely drill! (thanks Grannie) and it is in one of the sunniest spots in the whole garden and gets very very hot!

I checked these toms today and I am very excited to report I can see some little flowers opening up on them so very soon I will be getting my first harvest!

Beans and Peas

I found a buckled, bicycle wheel by the side of the road and I thought what better frame for my beans as they have come out from their little protective covers.

I have put some string to train them upwards. I tied the string to the plants - I'm not sure if this was the best of ideas but it seems to be working.

These are the peas about a month ago when they first poked their little heads up from the soil.
I let them grow for quite a while in the little pots as I read (after planting) that they don't transplant very well and should have been planted where they where to grow (whoops!)
However I was confident that if I was gentle they would be fine.

I have now transplanted them and done the same string trick as with the beans and they seem to be very happy and growing beautifully!

The variety of pea I have is called Poppet a dwarf variety. I have never grown peas before and I'm not sure if I've ever known anyone to either so I am very excited by the prospect of these little guys!

I started to put mirrors up around the shadier parts of the garden to give some of the plants in these areas a boost, but unfortunately (or not) one of these mirrors smashed so I have used them to hide the ugly breeze vlock at the top of the wall. Just got to wait for some more to break and I can finish it...

yesterday rubbish, today infinite possibilities!

What can you do with an old, broken laundry basket with a big bit of wire sticking out the top?

Cut off the wire...

Find some scabby sprouting potatoes in the back of a cupboard...

Get the boyfriend to do some heavy lifting...

And hope for the best!

a slow couple of weeks...

...but here's an update of the few things I'v done and what's been growing (and what hasn't).


The Pea Beans that I planted weeks ago, and that I had almost given up on, finally raised their little head, getting rapidly bigger and quite amusing they looked too!

 

Two little bean plants on the left with lettuce I planted at the same time.

A close up of the little bean plant.

Once the pea beans were a little bigger and I had a grand total of 3, I decided it was time for them to be planted out.

I was a bit worried about the cold as they are still quite small but I needed the space in the greenhouse (!) so I have recreated the greenhouse feel for them in the ground, using some old bottles. At the same time I planted out the asparagus lettuce, I tried to separate them all but I got bored so I left some in clumps. However, reading about this type of lettuce just now, I realise that they are going to grow quite big so I may need to thin/eat some of the clumps.

The lettuce with an eggshell defence and the pea bean plants in their little bottle guards.

I had just planted the lettuce out and watered it so they all fell over but they are looking much healthier now.