Keeping busy.

[JohnP]

I have been keeping busy, I can hardly sit in my little conservatory at this time of year, I don't have a greenhouse so my stuff has to stay in it until the danger of frost has passed.

Edited April 11, 2020 by JohnP

[Denis]

Very nice John, and doubles as a greenhouse for you. Something I have wanted for a while is a conservatory. We have a patio @ 25x 10 feet but faces south west and too hot to sit in unfortunately. Thinking of one of them perculator things to build over it ...

 

 

........Yes I did mean a Pergola

[CMunzel]

On 11/04/2020 at 18:50, JohnP said:

I have been keeping busy, I can hardly sit in my little conservatory at this time of year, I don't have a greenhouse so my stuff has to stay in it until the danger of frost has passed.

That’s a great setup, John. The larger plants are tomatoes, yeah? What are the smaller ones? There’s a lot of them. 

[JohnP]

Cheryl... yes the larger plants are tomatoes, there are also some smaller tomatoes on the shelf. There are four Kalanchoes on the shelf I grew from cuttings for indoors) plus four peppers and four outdoor cucumbers to eventually go out on the patio in growbags. On the floor with the larger tomatoes are marigolds, I save seed every autumn and sow them at the beginning of March into two seed trays with light colour in one and dark in the other, I have only recently pricked out the tiny plants into five trays of each colour making ten trays of fifteen plants in each. They will go out later into both containers and the flower bed. On the floor you will see four pots with nothing showing yet, they are dwarf beans which should show themselves in a few days, when they are a couple of inches tall I will sow another four and keep repeating this so I don't get too many beans all at once, they are to go in my small veggie patch when frosts have finished. I sowed both carrot and spring onion seed in my veggie patch a few days ago, it's good to sow these close together because carrot fly don't like onions apparently.

 

[Clicker]

Well done John... very organised ... I love this time of year when the garden is about to be a riot of colour as all the rhododendrons start to flower one after the other ..I plant 3 every year in memory of my youngest sister who died age 23 in 1987 and my late Mum and Dad.. There are about 80 in the garden now ... 

[CMunzel]

I’m very impressed with your setup and system for ensuring a steady supply without a glut like I often have. I’ve been giving away capsicums and cucumbers to anyone who will take them. 
I like your “conservatory”.  We don’t seem to have conservatories in Australia, at least not where I live. Too hot, I think. Shade houses are more common especially as the climate gets hotter. We had 47 degrees in early summer this year.