'View from the Greenhouse / Polytunnel door 2018'

[Bacchus]

Your polytunnel is incredibly tidy.
What an enterprising young lady your daughter is!
Is it a school project?

Thanks - though it's not really that tidy - there's a reason I rarely take a picture of the other end

Not a school project. She's only 10 but highly motivated by the extra cash such a project might give her so we are happy to encourage her entrepreneurial acumen. She already sells eggs to relatives and to neighbours and has her own labels printed for the boxes. She rarely leaves any for us now so we may have to get more hens.

We've just got an honesty box for hew (actually a small, weatherproof rabbit hutch) to expand her business to the passing public. At 10

[muck lover]

I think that’s fab. She is an entrepreneur all right.
And the fact that she’s getting you to do the work shows she has the requesit people management skills too!!!

[bario1]

April

Here is the tunnel today.... not much going on on the left, just some bags of spuds (not up yet), a few broadies (out of sight), and a strawberry basket. Some spuds chitting on the shelf.



On the right, there are some onions at the back, some Spring onions in the tiny raised bed, and some Spring greens which are coming along nicely now. And two more strawberry baskets.

[bramble]

Very healthy looking spring greens Bario.

[AmateurOne]

The bottles at the back, assume full of beer for the slugs?

[bario1]

Erm, the less said about them the better!

[AmateurOne]

Our local pub is very good. They bottle all the stops and pullings of ale in milk cartons. Perfect slug food

[Small pumpkin]

Finally something worth photographing. I have greenery in the tunnel.



Not very tidy at them moment. It's work in progress

[Thelma Sanders]

Not very tidy at them moment.

You think that's untidy?

I don't think mine has ever, apart from when first put together, been as tidy as that

[unclefudgly]

Never as tidy as other peoples polytunnels, but quite a lot of greenery, not sure if I should leave the broad beans in long enough to pod?

[nickdub]

Can't advise you whether to leave the beans or not, but you're going to need some warmer weather to get the bumble bees in for pollination if you want pods - haven't seen any around my garden since the brief warm spell last week, in or out of my poly-tunnel.

[carly]

First lovely day



Brocilli and cauliflower



Tomatoes



Aubergines



Chillies.

[muck lover]

Not my polytunnel. Alas
This is the reopened refurbished tropical ravine in Belfast’s botanic gardens.
Worth a visit.

[Dead Dogs]

After doing a bit of potting on and sowing a few French beans, it became obvious that I needed more room. So I reorganised greenhouse 1 and moved the Autopot system out.
Now have room to set up an Autopot system for the toms.



The cauliflower, onions and leeks are now in the Gardman Seedling Cloche.

[FuzzyFeltDeath]

Here's the progress in my first greenhouse, trying to juggle two kids under 2, day and night shift, garden work and then the greenhouse.

Everything is doing really well so far, bar tomatoes, for some reason I'm not doing overly well with them from seed.

The rhubarb will probably go back outside once I get netting sorted, the chickens eat every last viable bit of them all.