Doing odds and ends

After the discovery of the frost damage, there is not a lot to do, but plant more and wait for them to germinate. We have two courgette plants which have survived as they were mixed in with the strawberries in the greenhouse and the tough strawbs managed to protect them from the frost. The ones which were hit in the second greenhouse may recover somewhat because it seems that only the leaves may have caught the worst of it. The heart of the plants are still green and seem to be putting forth a few (admittedly very tiny) leaves. Only time will tell whether they recover.

So in the meantime, it's plant more sweetcorns and tomatoes and hope for the best.

Which leaves us with just small jobs to be got on with. Making a cane support...

(Yeah, I did have a cane storage underneath the shed, but it turned out to be a bit awkward.)

Plugging the gap in the No. 2 greenhouse with temporary polystyrene found in the rubbish.

Put carrots into the coir pots.

We tried planting carrots into soil (they forked), compost (they forked), sand (they forked) and now we're going to try coconut coir which basically have almost no nutritional value. We'll see how they go this time.

Whilst we were rootling around in the rubbish we came across a whole load of pots that somebody had thrown away. I've said before that one persons trash is another's treasure, so we grabbed them. But the Wife insisted on washing them all.

Anyway, we have pots to spare, and we have new seeds planted. Maybe we'll actually have something to plant after all.