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...