Friday, July 6

Garden greenhouse at the end of June

For those of you who like to watch videos, I have filmed a visit to our garden greenhouse. It lasts about 12 minutes.


If you would like to watch a video of our allotment plot, Martyn has posted a plot tour here

For those of you who don't like or can't watch the video - I've also taken a few photos.

One side of our greenhouse is dominated by tomato plants growing in three grow bags with some planting rings added to give an extra depth of compost and also facilitate easier watering.
The pot on the front left of the photo above is shown below in more detail.
 In this pot are four miniature patio tomato plants. The variety is Red Robin.

We are growing just three varieties of cordon tomatoes this year. The varieties are Shirley, Sungold and Tigerella.
Trailing along the bench at the far end of the greenhouse are our cucumbers These are Mini Munch which produces meal sized fruits. They usually keep us supplied with a constant harvest of fresh cucumbers as we need them.
On the floor just inside the greenhouse are some kale and Purple Sprouting broccoli plants. These are being cossetted, especially the PSB as for a few years we have had no luck growing these plants. Our plot suffers from club root and as we can't source a club root resistant variety of PSB we are trying to see if growing them on to a decent size in pots will give us more success. The plants below will be potted into larger pots shortly.
On the left are some pots of miniature aubergines, the variety is Jackpot.

Resting at the base of the peach, apricot and nectarine trees are pots containing herbs. We are growing basil, parsley and coriander.
Dripping from the roof are immature bunches of grapes. The fruits haven't been thinned out. This year they seem to have obliged us by growing already thinned.

It's at this stage in the year that the myriad of trays of seedlings give way to the larger plants as we begin harvesting from the garden greenhouse.

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

18 comments:

  1. Love the idea of growing rings in gro-bags for the tomatoes. Tigerella is a lovely variety, but it never does well outdoors for me which is a shame.

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    1. We've never grown Tigerella before so it will be interesting to see whether the ones outdoors will thrive given this year's weather conditions, CJ

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  2. I used to grow Tigerella most years, but recently stopped, because the fruits never seemed to be as good as they used to be. I found they were not very tasty and the colouration which had been so attractive had become less obvious. The fruits were more or less completely red, without the distinctive stripes. I put this down to poor breeding. I tried seeds from different companies but they were all similar (probably came from the same original source!). My PSB is planted now, and netted to keep the butterflies off. I just hope it's not going to be attacked by the Cabbage Root Fly - as happens more often than I'd like.

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    1. It may be the first and last time we grow Tigerella then, Mark.

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  3. Blessing in sharing Sue thank you for your time in blogging

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  4. I'm growing Tigerella for the first time this year. I had one plant given to me. I'll see how well it does.

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    1. Let’s hope that they don’t disappoint, Margaret.

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  5. Everything in your greenhouse seems to be thriving. It all looks wonderful.

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  6. LOVED THIS post. Oh how we would love a greenhouse, one day it will happen! You have just made us a tiny bit envious! haha. I love the name 'mini crunch' and the grapes and toms - it all reminds me so much of my grandfather, the reason I got into veggie garden in the first place. Oh happy happy eating! xx

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    1. It will happen, Carrie. When you are old like us! :-)

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  7. Your tomatoes look great! It will be interesting to see how well the PSB does in a pot - we don't have a long enough season to grow it here, but I'm assuming it gets as large as regular broccoli?

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    1. It does grow large, Margaret. We're not sure how long we will grow it in pot yet. It's more a case of establishing a good root system to try and combat the club root.

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  8. I always grow my purple sprouting in pots and keep potting them on until there's space outside for them. This year though, the butterflies have decided to fly up to my balcony; 5 caterpillars removed after just 4 days away! Love your greenhouse, it looks so big! Good movie, btw.

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    1. The greenhouse is 20x10, Caro, Something is nibbling our broccoli leaves no song of caterpillars though. I guess it could be slugs or snails,

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  9. Always a treat to see what's going on in your greenhouse, such variety and everything looking so healthy. Smashing video.xxx

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