Hop rhizomes I dug up

More hops

Mushrooms

When I grow tomatoes...

Chilli peppers turning red

My big fat brandywines

Grapes

This vine is older than me, and I haven't been able to get anything from it. This year looks promising.

Brandywines

Brandywine tomato

Onions & beans

Another greenhouse

A friend wanted to get rid of his greenhouse and offered it me. I took it. He and his Dad came round Sunday to the allotment and we unloaded the van, all the metal frame work and glass. No instructions. I gave him a huge bag of compost for it. I didn't know what else to give him, he needed a bag anyway.

After I cooked dinner and had an hour of head-scratching to sort the pieces, I started the base and got the front and sides fixed until I was working in the dark. When I got up today and had some coffee, I started on the supports and roof, finishing around tea time.

Every so often a tame robin would perch on the frame and look at me for a short while then fly off somewhere. He still has his baby feathers, grey fluff, at the back. I tried to coax him on to my hand with all kinds of worms I dug for him but he seems happy just follow me around the garden.

I've had way too much fun on this meccano set with no instructions. Throw the instructions away and do as you please. I will be installing the glass this week, taking my time, some of it is brittle.

Strawberries fruiting

What's in the greenhouse / Weather / Early strawberries

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Sat in the greenhouse having a look-see and it started hail??stoning.

The mini strawberry patch has some flower heads. Very early.

Garlic growing

Easier than I thought

Stinky fire on the allotment *cough*

Garlic

Never grown this before. Will be interesting.

Brandywines starting to grow

Seeds

Got a few more seeds, fancy packeted ones too, in the post today.

Cinderella pumpkins, Sweet dumpling squash, Waltham butternut Squash, and, the one I'm most excited about, Brandywine tomatoes -I hate growing tomatoes but these are the biggest and one of the hardest to grow, a fun challenge and something different I'll be able to blog about.

Propagating Gooseberries from cuttings

...is easy. I cut some last week and they are already growing.

Take a cutting of newer wood a few inches long. Between 8 Or 12 is ideal. Stip the lower buds leaving 4 or 5 at the top. Make a slopping cut at the top -leave the bottom level.

Place outside or indoors in pots for extra growth, with the lowest bud 1-2 inch above soil.

Easy.

Sorry looking allotment

Seeds from the web

Looking forward to growing white pumpkins.