Outside the wind is howling, the temperature is a cool 9 degrees and the rain is pelting down, but inside THE DOME it's like the Bahamas. The mercury is hitting 25 Celcius and the plants love it.
Well, it’s either that, the wonders of the copper coils or my consummate gardening skills. I mean, I ask you, where have you seen better-looking chard and lettuce than this?
And would you look at the head on that cabbage?
I have the beds ready to transplant the cucumber and melon seedlings, all coming along nicely. I'm growing Suyo Long, Miniature White, Crystal Apple and Marketmore cucumbers, together with Petit Gris de Rennes and Minnesota Midget melons. Our fig tree, grapes strawberries and gooseberries also do well in the heat and weather be damned I'm expecting a bumper crop this year.
It’s been raining here since last July and it seems there’s no end to it. The ground is completely sodden, the farmers are complaining that they can’t put the cattle out and silage is in short supply, and I’ve been unable to plant anything outside yet save a few onions, though they’ll likely drown. I remember this time last year, with the sun on my back, I had a hundred onions down along with my potatoes.
Following the tragic collapse of my homemade pea frame last year, I've invested in a more professional construction …made in China.
The peas are ready to rock but with storm Kathleen due to arrive on Sunday with 100 kmph winds forecast, I’ll be lucky if the frame survives.
My chicken enclosure was uprooted and dumped into the bushes one tempestuous July a few years ago by 80kmph winds.
And what of my petulant parsley and cantankerous cucamelons that refuse point blank to germinate? Well with hundreds of parsley seeds in the pack, I can try try again, but with, would you believe 9, yes nine cucamelon seeds in the packet, I'll either have to admit failure or simply buy some more and pretend they're my first attempt. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried... Surely a perfect maxim to live by.🙃
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Posted in response to The Garden Hive's Monthly Garden Journal Challenge to detail what's happening in your garden, from successes to failures