The greenhouse has been such a success and we can now really look forward to a huge crop of tomatoes. Each of the 19 plants is weighed down with trusses of green tomatoes all ready to start ripening.
We've also had a huge success with our pepper plants. Check out this monster growing here. Its a whopping 18 cm long. The only problem we have is knowing when to eat it! We're still ploughing through lots of courgettes. (We probably cut 3 or 4 new ones each day so courgette is permanently on the menu right now!)
Check out this knobbly little guy too! Our first home grown cucumber. Its still a bit early to pick being only 10 cm long but I guess it won't be long. If they give us as much fruit as our faithful courgettes and tomato plants, I guess we'll be making lots of mint raita!
Tom is thrilled with the progress with his pumpkins too. We have two beautiful pumpkins about the size of a large cricket ball which are looking really strong and healthy. Some people have great success growing pumpkins (and other large fruits such as melons) on a trellis which is what we are doing. I read somewhere that you can support the large fruit using netting or even (clean) tights! So if you visit our garden in the coming weeks and see some fishnet stockings among the vines, don't worry, we've not been up to unspeakable things, we're just hoping for nice big pumpkins. :)
The Chili plants are hanging in there too despite a poor start to life and here you can see 2 really healthy green chili's growing well. We cut one and added it to a vegetable concoction last night but could not taste any heat at all. Perhaps they are a very mild variety? Next time I'll add more.
Its hard to see from this photo but these french beans are so tiny! I haven't had much success from my Dwarf French Beans. The first sowing rotted in the compost. The second fried in the heat of the greenhouse. The third, planted in a pot on the patio only gave about 5 tiny seedlings despite about 8-10 seeds being planted. Then to add insult to injury, our dog was caught chomping the growing heads off the tiny plants last week. I never knew she likes legumes!
Still I harvested 4 (yes only four!) itsy, bitsy beans this morning and will be adding them to a medley of mange tout, garden peas and runner beans.
Onions bursting up through the soil. Not sure when I'll harvest these. Need to do a check on google!
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