June Greenhouse and food garden update!
This was a bit delayed due to other posts and commitments but the garden is starting to look great, finally all that hard work earlier on in the year is starting to pay off, everything seems to be getting nicle established and the typical mix of wet weather and sporadic sunshine has helped things along nicely.
As you can probably see im still suffering the effects of most of the salads bolting due to the unseasonal heat and dryness we had early on last month. But the Bee’s are loving the addition of the flowers so i'm happy to leave them in to self seed until replacements are ready to go in. As i'm sure you would agree “weeding” would be much more fun if it was little salad plants and veg that needed to be removed (or not) and put to better use than on the compost heap.
Permaculture and self seeding annuals in the greenhouse
This is one thing i love about my greenhouse and the holistic approach i take with it. Some of you will think this is insane (Like i do) but many people deep clean their greenhouses in the UK once the growing season is over, using many chemicals, spray and smoke bombs to reduce the chances of pests/diseases including removing or sterilising the compost they used to grow in.
Honestly how mad is that!! Lets grow some great fruit and veg but drench the place with Chemicals in the process 🤯
I for one don’t do this, and encourage you all not to either. One thing i really enjoy when i'm routing around pulling out the bitsi dont want, and finding a little tomato plant, or naustratum or cluster of herbs. Lovingly plucking it out and putting it somewhere it can flourish and be loved.
One of my attempts at companion planting is coming on great the pea’s are starting to flower and the squash plant is starting to take off.
The Comfrey under the redcurrant bush is coming back in force after a recent cutting back to make a natural plant feed and propogate more plants.
The next planting of salads are starting to come through, so far I’ve managed to keep this going, and usually i have massive gaps between harvests 😀
In the greenhouse
These have shot up a lot in the last week, and each plant has a couple of truss starting to set fruit, so the rest of the greenhouse doesn't suffer and to push the energy into the rest of the plant I’ve stripped the leaves of to the first truss.
While we were watering some of the pots that dry out quickly we heard a bit of a commotion in next doors garden, i quickly realised it was one of the locals cats had managed to find a little fledgling blackbird and was in the process of harassing it.
Like an ECO ninja that feline got a jet of water to face 🐺
Once it ran off looking rather confused i had to scoop the little bird up as my 4 year old daughter was getting a bit distressed watching this unfold. This little bird has a tour of the greenhouse and a 3 course meal and after a few hours chillin out of harm's way and the cat gone we put him back in our garden in a place with more cover from the cats and other birds. We did see this little bird for 2 more days pottering about our garden under the watchful eye of its parents.
I’d like to think we will see it again pottering about helping in the garden.
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All the best
Dan
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Your green house looks great. Do you grow most things in your green house? Do you ever get pests in there? I love how you don't use chemicals to clean your green house (no insane at all).
The pic of you feeding the little rescued bird put a smile on my face. I bet your daughter appreciate you doing that :)
@thelaundrylady Thanks! The greenhouse (16x8feet) makes up about 30% of my growing space so a lot is done in the greenhouse. I've been looking into making my own antibacterial spray using rosemary for the greenhouse and seed trays etc so ill see how that pans out later on in the year. Thanks so much for leaving a comment 😀
Disinfecting the greenhouse sounds a little much unless there was some kind of on going plant diseases you couldn't get rid of any other way.
Looks like your garden has really taken off! It's looking great and very healthy.
Thanks for sharing with us!
@hethur240 thanks for your kind words! I agree its a bit much and fair play if its because of a stubborn disease, my issue is so many people recommend it as a preventive measure compared to a last resort
yeaaaaaahhhh!!!!!!!
Gosh that chemical clean out sounds awful. Do you think maybe vinegar could be the go??
A lovely lovely post! Love seeing whats happening in your garden. You seem to have a great set up and your daughter clearly is being raised with an appreciation of nature... yay!!!
I'm not sure long term it would be wise as it could potentially change the PH of the soil, been looking into garlic and rosemary as an option due to its anti-bacterial properties,
She is amazing, I'm struggling to finish a post on a mini beast hotel she wanted to make and the epic hunt for creatures we had 🙂
AWesome!!! that'd be a cute post.... Oh, I guess I was thinking vinegar for the windows and wood, didnt think of the soil? I'm not that au fait with greenhouse gardens or British gardening for that matter. When I was there I lived in Dorset and we had a vegie patch going - i was so excited about my beetroots and the neighbours pigs came and ate them all - god I was devastated. So gutted.
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Your garden AND greenhouse are looking superb! All that green, all those leaves... you're going to have a bountiful harvest this year!
Thank you! i really hope its a bountiful year too 🙂
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