My Greenhouse

Looks very organised !

Thanks TT. It is much better since we put weed suppression sheets down and gravelled it as the weeds came under before.

This lot should make you popular in the village .. or are you one of those organised people Dawn who makes chutneys ?

Hi BB, no dont make chutney, lol. We love tomatoes and tend to eat them all, love them cut up covered in vinegar and salt and pepper, lol. This was my dad's greenhouse, must be over 50 years old. My dad had bumper crops and he would sell them - as a child, it was me who had to deliver them, on my bike, ha ha.

very tidy dawn, im like you i love tomatoes, eat them like apples, home grown always tastey to, i use to grow them at my parents,

Thanks Sandra, I'm always nipping in and eating them too. I'm hoping they will be ready to eat mid-July!
I have 3 cucumbers set at the back too along with a green grape vine to the left and a red one to the right.

its going to look fab when everything is full grown,,:o)

Yep, hopefully. The vine to the left is about 40 years old, lol. It runs along the top of the greenhouse which gives the toms some shade which is good in Summer. The red one is about 5 years old.

Crikey Dawn....what a lot you got.........Im as bad as you though...When they are on the plant, then I cant walk past them at any time of day withpout pulling one off and popping that straight in the mouth..............yumm..............

There are 24 tomatoes. I've grown some old favourites this year - Shirley, Alicante, Money Maker, St Pierre and a few Tiny Tim - wanted some Big Boy beef toms but I didnt see any seeds just when I needed them. I'm thinking of keeping a salt pot in there for when I'm scrumping, lol. We like to have things to eat dotted around, then I'm never far away from a feeding station.

LOL.....scrumping...what a delicious word ! Remember a cherry orchard behind parents house when a youngster ! Was never out of it.All built up and covered in houses now : (

I love them straight from the greenhouse as well .
OH Yes Scrumping , we still do it if we are walking through an orchard in the autumn ... :o)

Glad you got to feast while it lasted Ray. Shame isnt it how things change :(
You know what, I've never seen cherries growing - only wild ones. We scrumped apples - very handy to have a floppy jumper on to pull out and collect them in, lol

Hi Dawn..Jane here.Couldnt resist telling you a little story. When we were kids Dad had a lovely strawberry patch,and one day my younger sister decided to raid it ! Next day Dad wanted to know who had been at the strawberries but noone would own up.Unfortunately for her my sis had an allergic reaction to them and came downstair with her face covered in red pin pricks....just like an enormous strawberry ! LOL. Still she wouldnt admit it !

lol, great story BB,

Lovely story Jane - ha ha, I bet your sis didnt scrump again - but who could resist a patch full of strawberries - rumour has it Milky's place will be a good place to go for strawberries soon, lol.

Lol...watch out Milky ! She progressed to peas in the pods !!

Must have as she says the peas will be ready soon too - sounds like a good place to raid! Where are you Maureen?

With you on this one Dawn! Lol

Maureen's veg plot is a real inspiration - would love to do it.

Agree Dawn..when have more time would love to do this !

When Maureen talks about her veg plot it takes me right back to my childhood - I'm sure you would feel the same Jane. One day then ......

It does Dawn..Dad sending me to pick a cabbage or cauli for tea...and wingeing cos I took too long ( Too busy scrumping peas along the way ! ) Lol

ummm fresh from the pod BB, yummy :o)

I was just the same Jane, loved the peas. Was the only chore my mum gave me that I liked - collecting and podding them. Good job Dad had good crops as we ate so many. That's all we had to snack on though, to be fair. It was great though as one thing followed another .... the blackberries were scrumptous too - if you got one without a grub that is.

its when you find half a grub, yak lol

What a job ! Those stolen peas....delicious.....Sanbaz..probably ate lots of grubs...shovelled them in too fast to find out ! Lol

I've ate a few grubs in my time, lol. Sometimes its just too late .....

hahahah nope only once and i was so sick, put me off for a long time

Aww, poor you. You know you've ate one when one doesnt taste quite right. Like the peas - you open a full pod and ..... oh no, a grub has beaten you to them. :-(

Same with blackberries..shovelled them in and not thought about the grubs.But if you wash them and see them come out ! Oh well..no harm done ! Lol

Wash them, lol, what's that all about. Joking apart, we never washed anything when scrumping. I can see those little white grubs now coming out of the blackberries.

Lol..expected to wash them at home before being made into pies Lol Remember the white grubs well ! LOL

Then we had to de-husk them, didnt we and then you ran the risk of getting those tiny little thorns in your fingers but we always ended up with purple stained fingers, those were the days, ha ha

I cannot wait to get my greenhouse up now! Waited weeks for it to be delivered, then had daughter really poorly, then went down with wretched flu and it hasn't stopped RAINING!!!! Fed up. Nice greenhouse Dawn and really lovely garden.

Hi Tink - Sorry to hear you've had to wait for your greenhouse - we dont like waiting do we, lol. Hope you and your daughter are OK now. This greenhouse must be 55 years old!!, it was my Dad's so very special to me :-) The grape vine at the back on the left must be 40 years old. Let's hope the rain stops soon.

I love this .. it,s real gardening without the frills .. LOL......

Hi Amy, even better now that the tomatoes are to the top of the greenhouse with toms turning red :-)))

puts my lot too shame this year, (see my blog )
Mind you a lot of people have said my toms are brlliant

Hello Hijuju, I've just seen your blog, what a shame after all your efforts. I usually get mine going on the window sill in February but this year I waited until just last week. I've got mine in a heated window sill propagator and after a few days the money maker and alicante were up, I need to prick them out. I think the heat to their feet has done the trick.