Deliveries

Today has been a day for deliveries. Firstly there has been a huge delivery of rain yesterday. Very much welcome indeed as we haven't had a decent rainfall for a couple of months. Secondly there has been a delivery of Woodchips and manure into the bays next to our plot. There was so much manure that it broke the back wall of the bay and it all poured out onto our plot. I didn't bother taking a photo, after all, who wants to see a big steaming pile of shite? If you really want to offend your eyes with a big steaming pile of shite, then you may as well go here.

Thirdly the courgettes and strawberries are now delivering.

We are now only down to two cucumbers (thanks to that damned mouse) so we're getting the 2nd greenhouse setup to handle two large trellises to grow our cucumbers on. They are in large buckets, but we need a good way to water them. The buckets have had holes drilled in the bottom, so at present the water leaks out. There is a back shelf in the greenhouse, but I thought the best way would be to turn it upside-down and put the buckets in between the slats. Except they are just a little too large. Cue the saw.

I cut a little angle out of the slats to allow the bucket to sit better and by using the plastic from the old compost bags, which were so useful last year, we could drop the buckets into the holes and make our own watering trays.

It's also time to start putting our Tumbling Toms outside as they're getting a little pot bound and droopy staying inside the greenhouse all the time. We've put three into one of the troughs.

Others we have put into much larger pots and they'll stay inside the greenhouse.