A quick peep inside our garden greenhouse

It's been a while since I gave you a peek inside our garden greenhouse so as we enter a less frantic time as far as planting out on the allotment goes, I thought that we would step inside the greenhouse for a change of scene.

Just outside the greenhouse door we have planted up a couple of large tubs. In each is a salvia Amistad and an agryanthemum. These are surrounded by white impatiens and purple and white petunias.

From the doorway, we can see a row of tomato plants on the right. They are growing in the same brand of grow bags as those in the allotment greenhouse, but so far appear not to have fallen victim to herbicide contamination. Fingers crossed that it stays that way.

In here we have three grow bags each with three plants of the same variety. We have Shirley, Albenga and Sungold.

Right down at the end of the greenhouse on the bench are pots of miniature tomato plants. These are a variety called Red Robin which produces cherry tomatoes. The plants will be happy in smallish pots; all they need is to be fed and watered and require no further attention.

Just in front of the bench on the left of the path are out apricot and peach trees; sadly the nectarine is no more. In front of these is the banana plant that was infested with ants. If you're not squeamish a video is posted here. We suspect that ants have set up home in the apricot tub too and have yet to deal with this. The banana plant isn't growing as quickly this year - maybe as a result of its upset.

  

The peach tree has quite a few fruit ripening but they are fairly small as we probably didn't thin them out enough but it's hard to convince yourself that you should remove so many fruits.  There are no fruits on the apricot which is resting after a prolific crop last year.

 Trailing along the foot of the trees is a Mini Munch cucumber.

This year we have decided not to grow any peppers or aubergines. To be honest the amount that we crop doesn't really justify the space and attention that they require. Instead we have decided to devote the left hand staging to flowering plants. We just bought plants that we liked as we saw them - there's no real design plan other than to make it look attractive and it's working well.

Just inside the door on the left we have a column of jasmine which adds a lovely perfume when on flower. The perfume even leaves with you when you leave the greenhouse. It's growing fast and so will, soon, either need trimming or given more support. 

Just inside the door to the right we have an odds and ends area. Included here we have some modules in which some French beans have been sown and a self sown tomato plant. Martyn found this growing in one of the pots. It must have resulted from a fruit dropping off one of the plants. It was left to survive at a time when we wouldn't have considered even thinking of sowing tomato seed. It survived and so was potted on and has been left to 'do it's own thing'. We have no idea of the variety so if it bears fruit it will be a surprise.

Overlooking everything, growing in the roof space ,we have a Himrod grapevine. This fruits well every year and the vine would literally fill the greenhouse if it was allowed free rein so it has to be regularly kept in check. It produces an abundance of sweet seedless grapes which we don't bother to thin. They actually seem to have fruit well spaced out which makes thinning unnecessary.

Finally on leaving the greenhouse we must remember to put the wire screen in place to try and keep the birds out.

If you'd like a closer look around our greenhouse, Martyn has posted a video here.

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