View from the greenhouse/ poly tunnel door 2022

[quanglewangle]

Is that a weather station too, quanglewangle?

It is. Also on the pole is a 2.4Ghz high gain antenna for the Internet connection. The sensors are cheap Maplin ones and the barings have seized. I need to get them down and replace them - needs fine weather and mrs quanglewangle to be distracted long enough for me to climb the pole.
The software is home-brewed. Only shows greenhouse conditions at present. See http://fimblefowl.co.uk:8082/

[Snoop Puss]

Brilliant. I really fancy erecting a weather station. Sounds like you made it all yourself. Congrats. Careful up that pole.

[Plot70]

I once watched cows during a lunch break while watching a rain storm that damaged a storm drain about a mile away.
The number of cows laying down indicated the rainfall rate quite consistently.

[quanglewangle]

Clearly needs a sweep out...

[Snoop Puss]

Looking magnificent, QW.

[Mr Bones]

Impressive crops QW you're way ahead of us

[Bren In Pots]

My toms and basil in the GH border.



Cucs and Mini bell toms on self watering mat.

[quanglewangle]

My toms and basil in the GH border.

Cucs and Mini bell toms on self watering mat.

Some tomatoes colouring up there!

I keep thinking mine are but it's a reflection of my red overalls.

Everybody else's greenhouses look so neat.

[Mr Bones]

Looking good there Bren

[Bren In Pots]

QW I inspect my Tom's every time I go in the garden I think it helps them ripen

[Plot70]

QW I inspect my Tom's every time I go in the garden I think it helps them ripen

They are like watched pots.
A watched pot never boils.
A watched tomato never ripens.

[quanglewangle]

"You don't fatten a goose by weighing it"

[Penellype]

First year with a greenhouse at home for me and I am already wondering how on earth I managed without it. I had forgotten to take any photos of the inside of it although I have been doing my usual monthly garden ones, but this thread reminded me. I found out just how hard it is to take photos of a 6ft square greenhouse! Everything in here is experimental to some degree.



On the sunny (north) side - 4 tomatoes in a Quadgrow, 2 more under the shelf, with 3 Garden Pearl on the shelf waiting to plant out. Pots of cosmos on the floor are waiting for the peas to finish. There are also 2 troughs of begonias on the floor near the door which completely defied my attempts to get them into a photo. The plants on the other shelf are asters in need of planting out. Under that shelf are 2 cucumbers in a duogrow planter. The slats will hopefully keep the young plants slightly shaded and help support them when they grow. The numbered buckets are storing sieved compost for next year's carrots as well as providing a "shelf" for strawberries.




The shadier side, which is about 4ft from a north facing garage wall. The top shelf gets plenty of sun and has 3 Ferline tomatoes waiting for the cauliflowers to finish, melons, cucumbers and a courgette which will go to the allotment. The 2nd shelf is brassicas - 2 trays of pak choi that I am growing for baby leaves and some romanesco and kohlrabi that will go to the allotment when bigger. The lowest shelf houses cuttings (fuchsias and geraniums), a couple of begonias that are being rather slow to grow, and a tray of newly sown kale, which is covered with a sheet of cardboard to keep the moisture in. At the far end are strawberries with a few ripe fruit. On the floor are some heuchera cuttings that were rescued from a plant badly attached by vine weevil and were potted up on Friday.




A different view of the tomatoes in the Quadgrow. The first truss of fruit is developing on the biggest plant (Shirley) and it has reached the eaves. I have attached the plastic mesh that I use for peas to the greenhouse roof and intend to train the tomatoes up it. I have no idea if it will work or even if it (or the fastenings) will be strong enough, but at this stage it is all one big experiment.

[quanglewangle]

^^^Fantastic Penellype You are certainly working your greenhouse hard.

Another neat one as well...

[quanglewangle]

This year I finally had the discipline to not crowd stuff in the greenhouse and so far have seen no mould on stems that I have had previously.
Cucumber Baby F1 and tomatoes Cappricia