Vegmonkey and the Mrs.

Finally, we have the net back up!

So much has been going on in the garden, everything has grown amazingly and started producing for us. I bought three deep growbags and planted out the tomatoes that have been grown in the mini greenhouse and indoors. They don’t look the happiest plants in the world, but as long as i keep watering them, they should be fine. The main problem with growbags, as with hanging baskets and raised beds is that they don’t retain moisture well.

I planted three tomato plants per bag, but a couple of bell pepper plants in each one too. These were bought from a garden centre as a bit of an experiment, we’ll see how they go. One of the plants has a nice little yellow flower on it…which should soon develop into a little green tomato.

I do think the tomato plants look like ships sailing though.

I’m going to try and update daily next week as i’m on half term, and like i said, so much has been going on.

The tomatoes that we planted ages ago have been growing slowly, but surely in our makeshift greenhouse at the back of the garden. It’s not hugely warm in there, but at night it protects the plants from the colder temperatures and the evil beasties that emerge.

I’ve planted:

Gardeners’ Delight - a staple which should have no problem producing lots of flavoursome juicy toms. We were really quite unimpressed with the Tumbling Tom variety grown last summer which produced very little, and of which the Mrs. didn’t like the texture.

Oregon Spring - an early tomato developed in the US that is meant to produce lots of large, relatively seedless fruits. It should begin fruiting 65 days after transplanting which will be about the 10th of July if my maths is right, which is the Mrs.’ birthday! That’ll be a nice present!

The plants in the kitchen are twice the size due to the warmer conditions and will need to be hardened off in the greenhouse before they are planted out in grow bags. I’m going to plant some in between where the beans will go too, to use the space…that’ll be interesting!

I’m reluctant to move them though, i think they look quite nice sat on the top shelf.

Right i’m off to pester BT about our intermittent internet…there may not be a post for a few days!