Its a bit hot in there!
Greenhouse thermometer was just under 38C today. Even with the door and side vents open and the auto roof vents open. Still dropping to about 10C at night though.
Fruit on Cucumber plants
Potted on the cucumber plants, Tiffany and Zeina, both starting to get fruit on them but were in need of moving to larger pots. Tied in the Plum and Beef tomatoes which are taller than the Moneymakers at present – though I did buy these plants rather than growing from seed. Fruit starting to appear on the Plum tomato, so I thought a good feed was in order.
Also transplanted the melon plants. We have 4 Eldorado and 4 Edonis. The growbags claimed 4 plants per bag! Last year though 2 was a lot for each one, so 2 pairs have gone in growbags, the rest into very large plant pots. Need to take care with pinching out the tops this year to get proper laterals to form!
Finally got around to hacking out the buddleia which is right next to the house. It had just overgrown the space really and was encroaching massively on the path. Never really seen any huge number of butterflies or bees on it either. The digging up was spurred on by managed to get hold of some dwarf buddleia varieties – a deep mauve/purple and a marbled white one. We’ve been looking around for a while and were going to get a couple from T&M, but we were passing Barnett Hill garden centre and they happened to have them in, on special offer as well!
Cut out one of the broom’s main stems as well as that was getting a bit on the large side. I read they are difficult to prune, so I thought taking out the main stem was easier. Re-staked it as well to pull it back upright.
Also planted up some hanging baskets at last. I never really get on well with baskets, I think I leave them too late and then don’t water enough. Basically just trailling lobellia and some left over petunias as well. We’ll see….