Things You Do Want To See In Your Polytunnel

[SarzWix]

Good plan. I have a few flower buckets The smaller side of the tunnel, bed-wise is nearly empty, so I can plant in that side. Just a couple of calabrese plants and 3 potato plants on that side at the mo. On the other side there's a bit of space in front of the broad beans, and a bit behind some of the onions. It's going to be a squeeze...

[SarzWix]

Lovely broad bean flowers in the tunnel yesterday

[marchogaeth]

Tunnel in May - Part the first

A few pictures from yesterday.


The ones in the first pic are Duke of York, they are just coming into flower. They were all planted on 24 Feb after about a month of chitting inside.



The mange toute I planted in August last year have been disappointing and the ones planted September have looked rough all winter but are producing now in limited numbers. These were planted in October and are cropping well with lots more to come by the looks of them. Next to them are mini calbrese, Kabuki, one of the few F1s I use, they overwinter really well and produce great heads with lots of follow up spikes.



These are the broad beans (Wizzard and Aquedulce) that I threw in to take pot luck after I couldn't get them in the garden due to the weather. I just need them to get a move on! I've been shaking them twice a day to encourage poliination but I am absoloutely heartened by how many pollinators I have in there this year compared with last, confirmed by the fruit set on the strawberries, (I have been brushing them with my hand but not very carefully) where all the fruit have a really good, even set.



These are Honeyoes - they came in on Boxing Day. I've posted the Mount Everest pics on the climbing strawberry thread.

TBC

[marchogaeth]

Part 2



Aztec brocoli (mid April sown)



Celeriac (begining of March - lost the early ones)



Asian greens (mid April)



Chervil (March and April sowings)

[marchogaeth]

Part 3

This is land cress and tatsoi for seed saving. There is also some parsley and coriander being left to go to seed.



These are my garlics (Autumn and Spring) which were started in the tunnel and then moved out in March (but they might come back in now and then)

[marchogaeth]

Part 4

These are onions which I had to stick in modules because they sprouting. I wish I'd done all of them now as the other sets only went in last week.


Brassica types hardening off outside (Jan and Feb sowings)



Alongside some leeks and squash types.



So that's me up to date for now. I've posted it all cos when I stick it in a folder no one seems to visit. ( Or is that just how the page stats works?)

[SarzWix]

That's all looking fab

My broad beans and the 2nd half of my early peas ended up in the tunnel when they should have been outside, because of the snow. I definitely have pods forming on the peas now though (Oskar from Real Seeds) so hopefully they'll be done soon...

[VirginVegGrower]

Worms - lots of them when I start digging holes to plant stuff...yeay.

[mistymoo]

i notice some of you have planted sweet potatoes on your polytunnels, how are they doing in the UK?
i was going to get some to plant but was told it was too cold here for them?

[VirginVegGrower]

This on my grapevine!

And these were harvested yesterday.

[VirginVegGrower]

Beans and plenty of them, fresh picked and being had with crispy bacon and creamy mash. I may whizz up some parsley sauce in celebration

[VirginVegGrower]

Oh yes I forgot - eight dead slugs of the fat and orange bottom variety on my path mwahahahahaha

[VirginVegGrower]

The first bell peppers coming through.

[marchogaeth]

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So I've clicked "like" but really I need a "jealous". I am trying to grow mine to be a reasonable size to over winter ready for next year.

My thing is 1. So much broccoli that I have sold two lots to the whole food shop this week. (Someone bought it off the scales this morning while the shop keeper was working out what it was worth!)

and 2. Our Australian friend eating strawberries. (it was the only place he felt warm!)

[VirginVegGrower]

Well I don't have that much calabrese yet - it's coming through on the lotty, so it evens us out chick