10 day catch-up!

Don't get me wrong - i have been in the blowaway everyday (mainly on slug watch and watering duties), but simply haven't had time to do all i needed to do, so with some excitement i have finally managed all those little jobs, and everything seems to be thriving!
Today we have :

• Repotted all the Tomato seedlings (at least 8 or more!)
• Repotted lots of Coriander seedlings
• Repotted the Sunflower seedlings (hooray they germinated!)
• Planted Sparkler 3 Radish from seed
• Planted French Breakfast 3 Radish from seed
• Rescued two Pumpkin seeds (with shoots) that we thought were no good!
• Tied the ever growing Tomato plant to its cane, and changed its position in the blowaway
• Had a general tidy up!

The weather here today is extremely windy! Not so good when you have the door unzipped on the blowaway.The sun is trying to stay out, but the cloud is moving so fast that it is struggling to keep up, so pictures may have to wait until later when the light will hopefully be better.
The French Beans continue to grow at the speed of light, we are currently racking our brians about what we have we can replant them in, as are the spring onions that desperately need thinning out.

Its Bean amazing!

Although we have only had our 'greenhouse' for a few weeks, i think the biggest suprise so far has been our beans, peas and spring onions. All of which we purchased from a local pound shop, and to be perfectly honest we weren't particularly optimistic when we first planted the seeds...it all seemed too good to be true, a good, strong, deep pot. A pack of seeds and a clear (propegator style) lid, and compost all for 100 of the queens finest pennies!
So we planted the seeds on the last bank holiday, and today the pictures speak from themselves,

 the French beans, i think will be readt for re-potting soon, i think there must at least 3 or 4 plants in there at the moment.

The Sugar Snap peas are not far behind either, there are 3 plants that are leading the way, but if we look closely, there are 2 or 3 more on the way.

The Spring Onions are the White Lisbon variety, and although they have sprouted really really well, i am a little perplexed at where we go from from here! The seedlings look like teeny weeny spring onions, but there are lots and lots of them, so obviously they will need planting out soon, but further research is needed because they look so fragile, and we'd hate to lose them, after they have done so well.

Three tomatoes are walking down the street -- a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and squishes him... and says, 'Ketchup.' - Pulp Fiction

Well alongside our ever-growing tomato plant, i suppose these seedings seem a tiny, but if anything i am more proud of them, because we have grown them from scratch, the tomato kit we purchased in week one, had three varieties, Gardeners Delight, Marmande and Moneymaker. We have sucessfully managed to germinate at least two of each in the tray and pellets provided, but the remainder of the seeds i planted up in compost and a tray. So we actually have more than 10 tomato plants than we bargained for that are all doing really well! Keep your fingers crossed.

Growth Spurt

It just amazes me what a difference two weeks can make, the tomato seedling we purchased in week one is unrecognisable, it has more than tripled in size, both in height and width..and more importantly has its first few flowers!

This variety is F1 Sungold, and looking at the way this plant is growing, it will be near the roof of the greenhouse in no time, looking at the mark i made on the cane, it has grown over 10cm in height in 14 days!

The chilli pepper, and sweet pepper seedlings that where also planted into a growbag in week one are also thriving, only two leaves out of the three plants have been nibbled (Mr Slug..we know its you!) So lets just hope the eggshell i have put around the base of the plants does its job, i guess as with most things at the moment we can only try! Paul has also read that slugs and snails also have an aversion to copper wire? So if the eggshell collars don't do the trick, i think copper wire may be the second string to our bow, i really don't want to have to resort to using slug pellets.

and two weeks later...

Doesn't time fly! The last fortnight has just flown past me, in a blink of an eye. Meanwhile though, the contents of our blowaway greenhouse has really sprouted into action. We have had a few casualties however, the sunflowers that were doing so well....well they disappeared. The culprit, we think, was a snail.
So with a little bit of help from 'The Grapevine' we are currenty trialling the use of eggshell as a deterent...

The rocket seeds we planted continue to be our biggest success so far...however it seems Mr Slug has taken a fancy to this pot....

Luckily, the other pots were all ok, and we still have more to pot up in the next few days.

During 'Slug and Snail Patrol' today i must have found at least 9 or 10 hiding underneath the growbags, so hopefully everything should be ok, at least for tonight anyway! Fingers crossed!