The first photo is of the five hanging baskets of tumbling tomatoes, they cover the back wall of the covered area completely. Between the plant on the left and the tomatoes on the right should be a central aisle. It has got to the stage where I have to almost fight my way through to get to the greenhouse.
This picture is the greenhouse from the outside. As you can see it is well full, mainly with tomatillo, cucumber and pepino with a few tomato plants for good luck.
This next one is another one of the tomato baskets.
And the tomato baskets taken from the other end.
Inside of the greenhouse showing the tomatillo, plant just on the left is a pepino. Don't know how big tomatillo fruit grow thw ones in the green husks are about the size of a large grape still green at present.
One of the cucumber plants with a nice cucumber ready for picking. It is an Italian one Slangen di China, or something like that.
One of the new rhubarb plants which has put on a nice amount of growth. Will be planted out into final position in Sept/Oct.
Out on the lottie, This is the achocha and although it has grown well there is no sign of any fruits as yet.
Another unusual plant is this rats tail radish. Has produced hundreds of fruits, but I have found limited use for them. Don't think I will grow as many next year as they are very uncontrollable, and I don't need that much of a crop.
Winter sprouts and kilaton cabbage, both should be a good size by the time winter comes. Only hope they don't mature before winter gets here as they are already starting to form hearts.
Red cabbage interspersed with mares tail which is quite abundant throughout the lottie. Just learn to live with it and keep it under controll so that it does not interfere with veg growth. Red cabbage are forming some nice hearts and I should get a good crop.
Raised carrot bed, with no sign of any carrot root fly, have been harvesting carrots for about 6/8 weeks now and there will be enough now to see me through till next Mar/Apr. Size at the moment is slightly thicker than a large finger. I think there is about 8 rows going across the picture. All different varieties, the autumn king look to be doing the best.
One of the strawberry beds, have two at the moment and intend to make another one for next year. The ordinary strawberries have finished now but in the front of this bed is alpine strawberries which were grown from seed this Jan, they are just starting to flower, and should give a good crop.
Small narrow bed between the strawberries, filled with leeks and lettuce.
The tomato house on the lottie, you can just make out some of the tomatoes with some of them at full size. Don't know if it is possible to make out but this is the one with all the leaves curled up.
The bean bed with runner and french climbing beans. Have had 4 good sized runner beans so far. May be some more by now but weather has not been good enough to go and have a look.
Tried to get a picture of the seed sown onions. Hasn't really rorked as you can't see the size of the bulbs. They are Buntons showstopper and I am impressed with them. Have just sown some Hi-Keeper onions for over wintering. May get some Japanese set to overwinter as well and see which ones do the best.
And finally for this session of photo's one og the potato beds. There is Pink Fir, Charlotte and Sarpo Mira in this bed. Pink Fir on the left have produced plenty of growth but no potatoes yet. In the centre is the charlotte which I have started to harvest, which is why there is a gap there. The Charlotte have been very proliffic with an average of about 5lbs of potatoes per plant. In the foreground is some winter cabbage I needed to get into the ground.
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