All Blog Posts Tagged 'Greenhouse' (5)

After leaving the Onions to dry out in the small greenhouse over the last few weeks, last weekend I finally got around to trying out how to plait these, now I've never done this before, as this is my first batch of Onions, but I thought plaiting them would be better than just storing them in a bag.



Having consulted my garden books, it looked like plaiting was the best way to store them, but they didn't explain how, so off I went to the internet, as always this is a great place to…

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I've been harvesting the Early Purple Wright Garlic this weekend and I may have left them a little too long in the ground or maybe done something wrong along the way. On realising a lot of other people have been harvesting these, I decided to pull them up and found that most of them were slightly deformed.…

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A few weeks ago I managed to get out onto the Balcony, the sun was even shining, and do my spring tidy up after the mild winter we've had. I wanted to create a lot more space, as it seems the balcony has been taken over by a lot of garden waste, so I started with this first. I've been collecting a couple of bags of waste, old soil, leaves, so these were the first to go.



Next was the greenhouse. I've had this for a few years now and you can tell as its looking a little old, but its…

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It was a little chilly and also a little rainy on Saturday, but I managed to pop onto the balcony and re-pot a few of my vegetables from the mini-greenhouse, which have been overwintering for a few months now and the Sweet Pea plants, which I've been growing in doors.



Last weekend I bought a new large pot with a lovely red flower design on it, which I filled with…

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Over the last few months I've been carefully looking after the Strawberry Runners, that were taken from the mother plant. These have come on very well and after checking their roots, which had developed really really well, it was time to re-pot and store away for the winter.



I took some 30cm pots and added each of the four developed Strawberry Runners into these with multi-purpose compost, then watered. They are now ready to be placed in the Mini Greenhouse over winter.…

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