Greenhouse Update!

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Despite the horrendous weather, I am still happily growing away in the Greenhouse, and so decided to make a note on how things are progressing so far (since November) including the odd experiment!
I thought I would try and grow Broad Beans in a metre long plastic container at the end of the greenhouse, and I’m delighted to say, that they are now on average 8 inches tall and staked up. My experiment with Mushrooms produced 3 largish gourmet Mushrooms and I’m still hoping for some more to be produced, if no more appear, then I may try again with another variety of spawn.
One failure was the supposedly easy growing of Mint seeds, very few grew, and they then went to the big herb plot in the sky, however I then read about how easy it is to take cuttings. Having bought a “live” plant from the supermarket, I now have 14 Mint plants in individual pots. Not sure if it had any beneficial effect, but I placed the cuttings in to a glass of soluble Vitamin C (as seen on the Great British Garden Revival) for a minute before planting and every cutting rooted, I intend to try this Orange Vit C method on other cuttings to see what happens.
A visit to one of the “Pound” shops close to work, saw me arrive back from my lunch-hour together with 3 Blueberry, 2 Green Gooseberry and 3 Red Gooseberry bushes, so far all have survived and looking healthy apart from one Blueberry bush who is sadly no longer with us.
Better results on the seed front are my Parsley (3 inches high at present) and 19 Geraniums, I also have, on two electric window sill propagators in my bedroom, French Marigolds (one inch tall), Nasturtiums (two inches tall) and 14 (out of 15 seeds) “Tumbling Tom” Tomato plants who are an inch high and in individual pots. Slightly worried that I may have put these in too soon due to the heat from the propagators, but I’ll see how they go……….nothing ventured, nothing gained!

• 28 Feb, 2014
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