Garden greenhouse - August update

This post is especially for Snowbird who I know likes to have a peek inside greenhouses.

So first a view from the doorway - firstly to the right:

and now to the left:

Now let's pop inside for a closer look - starting at the left and moving round in a clockwise direction.

Just inside the door are the cyclamen raised from seed collected from a cyclamen growing in the house. They have really healthy looking leaves. One is starting to flower. Mixed in with them are cyclamen coum which I still need to find a space for outside in the garden.

Moving round we come across the rather straggly cucamelon which has neither earned its place inside the greenhouse nor outside either on the basis of edible production or ornamental value. If ever their was a plant that didn't live up to all the hype surrounding it - it was this one.

The staging here is home to small growing aubergine plants - Jackpot - that have been flowering for a while but only recently have I noticed any fruit setting. I did wonder whether the conditions were too dry for pollen flow of aubergines and whether the recent rainy weather had got things moving. Now the fruit just need to swell

Moving along the shelf there are more aubergines and you may be able to spot the odd sweet pepper. The jacaranda was grown from a seed by our ex-plot neighbour. It had been on a window sill in the house but began to suffer badly form aphid attack and was relegated. It looked very sickly and so was cut down almost completely and popped into a larger pot to take its chance. It has certainly surprised us as after a period of inactivity it started to grow strongly and is now about four times as big as it was. We now need to find out where it can live over winter.

If we cast our eyes down to the floor you can see where the morning glory shown on the far right of the photo above is growing from. It is producing lots of healthy growth but no flowers. This is the only surviving seedling from the packet of seeds sown.

Other than the aubergine that wouldn't fit alongside the others, this area is mainly used for cuttings and seedlings. My new variety of indoor cyclamen are growing well and on the left of the aubergine is one plant that has produced flower buds and so has been potted individually

There is some overlap between the above photo and the next one but on the far right are the alpine strawberries that a ready to be planted out and lavender cuttings that have already rooted and so been potted up.

Now looking upwards to the high shelf - the small elephant garlic hang alongside the remains of our autumn planted onions and hanging from the shelf is the ordinary garlic. 

Moving clockwise the workbench at the far end of the greenhouse is home to our sweet peppers. Here we have a mixture of Orange Bell and King of the North. All the peppers are growing far better than bell peppers have done for us previously. We think maybe growing fewer tomatoes has meant they have had better conditions to grow in and also have been given more attention.

Swinging round clockwise we now have our nine tomato plants. This year there has been no sign of blossom end rot in this greenhouse, although there is a fair bit of ripening to be done.

Then just inside the door are our figs - now minus any fruit and the osteospernums minus flowers.

Lording it above all the other plants is grapevine - Himrod - laden with nearly ready to eat grapes, It's just a matter of keeping up with the taste test to determine when they are sweet enough to pick.

The vine is making a determined attempt to escape the confines of the greenhouse and explore the great outdoors. It's attempt to escape through the roof window is thwarted by the netting that was put in place to stop birds getting in and consequently becoming trapped inside unto we spotted them and coaxed them out. But where there is a vine they will find a way. It has even found a small gap in the roof. This escape attempt will need dealing with before damage is done.

I guess my next update will be quite a different picture.

Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett