Potting on

Being rather unobservant, I had missed the fact that my plants had started to push their roots out of the side of their paper pots (no photos as it was starting to rain) so I decided it was time to move them up the property ladder.

The handy part of having a gravel back yard is that I am never short of stones to put in the bottom of my pots before adding the soil. I have officially called time on the chillies.

Getting bigger

The missing tomato plant is on the shelf above.

One thing that puzzles me is how do you get new soil to take on water easily. It always seems that the first few times you water freshly potted plants the water just sits on the top of the compost instead of sinking in. I may try poking holes in to see if that helps.

 

Moving outdoors

I got an e-mail the other day saying my seedlings will be on their way soon so I made a visit to the local garden centre to spend a load of money getting ready for the delivery and also to allow me to move my own stuff outside. On the plus side, I avoided having to go to the gym due to lugging a load of compost into the back of the car and then into the garden.

Back breaking mud

Though this may not be enough, as I will have quite a few pots to fill for the veggies, and  a couple of whisky barrel ends that I got from someone who works in a distillery for growing the salad in.

It's gonna take a lot of compost to fill these things

Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of room for a greenhouse and thought it may be best to go budget until I find out how much I enjoy this lark, so I bought a couple of plastic grow-houses to keep things nice and toasty until it warms up a bit. In order to keep the garden looking as nice a possible I’ve only put one up for the moment.

The flat pack

Spot the bricks in the top of the picture to keep it from blowing over until it is a bit fuller.

The finished article

Not as tasteful as some of the nice wooden ones you can get but it seems to warmer on the inside when I open it up. So my plants are transferred outdoors and I am now waiting for the postman to come bearing gifts.