Ok, so it actually does look a tad crowded in there at the moment. This is mainly because we also decided that unlike the previous two years we'd grow all our salad leaves, lettuces and radishes in the greenhouse rather than the allotment. It was simply too much hassle having traipsing up to the plot every time you wanted a few leaves etc, so, this year all salady things will be housed under glass a few feet from the kitchen door. As you can see we've got some little gem lettuces well on the way along with a first sowing of radish and a few Radicchio in there as well.
There's also a whole bunch of mixed salad leaves and some sorrel growing in a container. They've grown far better than I expected and I could probably have done with only half the amount really, but you shouldn't look a gift horse (or plant) in the mouth, I'd be moaning if they'd come to nothing.
The rest of the space is taken up with a couple of pepper plants, three tomatoes (annoyingly I've got no idea of their variety despite having grown them from seed thanks to an accidental labelling mix up), a couple of cucumbers a melon and an aubergine which I impulse bought from a garden centre and have no idea what I'm doing with. There's also a load of chilli plants sat on a tray waiting to be potted up alongside their more established brothers who are taking up most of the floor space. More on my slight chilli overload in another post.
On the other side of the greenhouse there's the current batch of seedlings (climbing beans that are ready for planting out and some freshly sown chard and spinach as well as a few extra peppers and melons that I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with as I've run out of room) along with some herbs and spring onions growing in pots.
Once the beans go up to the allotment at the weekend I'm going to sow all my brasicas too so there could be some space issues in the next few days...
There's also a whole bunch of mixed salad leaves and some sorrel growing in a container. They've grown far better than I expected and I could probably have done with only half the amount really, but you shouldn't look a gift horse (or plant) in the mouth, I'd be moaning if they'd come to nothing.
The rest of the space is taken up with a couple of pepper plants, three tomatoes (annoyingly I've got no idea of their variety despite having grown them from seed thanks to an accidental labelling mix up), a couple of cucumbers a melon and an aubergine which I impulse bought from a garden centre and have no idea what I'm doing with. There's also a load of chilli plants sat on a tray waiting to be potted up alongside their more established brothers who are taking up most of the floor space. More on my slight chilli overload in another post.
On the other side of the greenhouse there's the current batch of seedlings (climbing beans that are ready for planting out and some freshly sown chard and spinach as well as a few extra peppers and melons that I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with as I've run out of room) along with some herbs and spring onions growing in pots.
Once the beans go up to the allotment at the weekend I'm going to sow all my brasicas too so there could be some space issues in the next few days...
4 comments:
It looks to be coming along well. My greenhouse is only 6X4 so you can imagine how tight space is in mine. Hubby bought me a plastic walk in greenhouse for Christmas and I've also got a 4 tier mini plastic greenhouse, so they help with the space issue once the weather warms up. I grow my salad in containers too, but they're outside rather than in the greenhouse. I find they're alot cleaner grown this way too.
I went a bit overboard with chillies this year also - I think most of mine will be palmed off. err gifted!
Thanks for visiting my blog. Looks like you are making a good start to your veg growing. I particularly like your interest in beer too! I moved away from kits 3 years ago to go 'all-grain' and have never looked back.It's not as scary as you might think.
Keep up the good work.
Great growing in the greenhouse,we have had plenty of varieties of salad leaves to cut and come again on the patch since May. A favourite variety of swiss chard is bright lights
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