How Does My Garden Grow?

Quick update on the garden - the larger of the two greenhouses is coming on now - the tomatoes are growing apace as are the cucumber plants we put in, although I think we are a little later with it all than last year.  In the smaller greenhouse we may actually get some grapes finally - although the chillis and peppers have a lot of growing to go:

 

The potato plot is however doing very well for itself, and on the fruit front everything has gone a bit wild - expecting a bumper crop of strawberries any day now - plus the rhubarb is still going strong:

Will blog something about the other veg plot soon - it too is growing well, but then so are the weeds - will upload a photo in the next couple of days when I've had a chance to weed it properly!!

Growing Under Glass

Haven't blogged the garden for ages so here is an update on where we are with the fruit and veg - starting with the greenhouses . . .

Back in April the big greenhouse was full of seedlings, and the small greenhouse was hosting our potato pots. A month later in early May we were planting on the seedlings - kitting out the big greenhouse as tomato central - while the small greenhouse was practically bursting with potato foliage:

In fact we should probably have moved the potatoes out at this point - they did put on rather too much in the way of foliage - it was a right jungle in there by the end of May when we finally got around to moving them (by which time this was no easy task). At this point we planted on the chilli plants and peppers into the small greenhouse, and strategically positioned the cucumbers in the more accessible corners of both.

So where are we now? The tomatoes have established themselves well - we put in a mixture of cherry, plum and beefsteak, and apart from the plum (which were a later addition) they've all got fruit, although nothing is actually ripe yet:

The chillis and peppers are also coming on - flowering anyway, so hope to see 'fruits' appearing soon. The cucumbers are doing particularly well, and are already providing a steady supply for the table.

The vine we planted in the corner of the small greenhouse last year (and which produced all of two leaves throughout the last growing season) has also shown signs of life, although nothing in the way of grapes this year - fingers crossed for better results there in 2010.

Finally, although not strictly greenhouse produce any more, we are now harvesting from the potato pots - this (plus the other 8 or so large specimens we ate for tea yesterday) is one potsworth - three remain to be plundered.