Back in the real world, despite the dry weather this week there's not been a lot of time for alotment'y things, although fingers crossed for getting up there tomorrow evening. Everything in the greenhouse has been growing merrily though including, almost without me noticing, our first cucumbers of the year.
The chillies are doing well in their new pots too, one looks on the verge of flowering already infact.
I potted up all the squash, courgettes and marrows over the weekend and they seem to be settling in well. I've managed to do far grow many squash again this year. We grew about eight plants last year which, with the benefit of hindsight, was just about the right number in terms of lasting us through the winter. This year I seem to have fourteen plants, so I think I'll be looking to re-home five or six of them in the next couple of weeks.
On a less pleasant note I woke up this morning to find my car had been broken into and the stereo pinched. It's more annoying than upsetting or anything, I could do without shelling out for a new one at the moment and it's not worth getting the insurance involved as the excess on my policy would pretty much cover the cost of everything. Ho hum, some people...
Rather than end this post on that slightly sour note I'll finish with a picture of a rose from the bush in our garden that suddenly seems to have burst into flower this week.
Hope you're all having a fun filled week...
6 comments:
Sorry to hear about your car :(
On a brighter note, all the veggies are looking great. Your cucumbers and peppers are doing really well, very ahead of the game!!
Keep up the good work!!
Martin :) :)
chilli plants are great arn't they, what variety are you growing?I have black pearl on the go at the moment, 6 seeds for three quid, all germinated but only three count as decent plants. One of them is miles bigger than the rest. As to the robbers what goes around comes around muppets
I like the new look of the blog. I daren't fiddle around with my blog as I'm scared of losing everything, I'm not very technically minded. Sorry to hear about the break in, there's always some who want what you've got but won't work for it. Can't believe you've got cucumbers already, mine are a way off yet.
Fab new look blog! Looks like your plants are doing really well :-) Sorry to hear about your car.... There are some unpleasant people out there :-( Mel xx
Thanks all, glad the new look is going down well. :)
@ Captain Shagrat - We're growing Cherry Bomb and Hungarian Hot Wax along with a couple of plants taken from seeds out of a plant we'd had for a few years that sadly died over the winter. Those 'children' ones have probably got weirdly crossed with some of the others we grew last year (we did over ten varieties last year, far too many lol) so we're waiting with interest to see what we get from those... The other two are really going to be used for stuffing or pickling rather than to add heat to things as we've still got so many in the freezer from last year for that. :)
Beautiful rose, sorry about the theft. A similar theft - plus mindless vandalism - was what drove us out of central Bristol in the end, so I suppose the oiks did me a favour, as it gave me my first garden! I have a similar surfeit of squash plants, and a tendency to wake in the night wondering where to put them...
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