Rhino charging my way

The Rhino is now converted to the bird hide and light workshop for the winter, first wooden chair has been teak oiled, the bird feeders are out and filled and this will be a place to sit and contemplate and plan next years gardening now. Seed catalogues are still arriving and it's a time for strategic planning that usually ends up as winging it by the time seed sowing arrives.

 

Just had an hour in the greenhouse, I cover all the pots with fleece after plunging them in the ground, so that is all removed, dead leaves removed and pots given a water. There's new growth on everything, including patio Roses, I can still throw fleece over them if a hard frost is due.

 

Overnight temperatures seem to be keeping above zero, so the larger bloweaway has been built with both the clear plastic cover and the fleece one on just in case. Sowed some Onward Peas in cells and some Bunyards Exhibition Broad Beans also in cells, these are un heated propagators inside the blowaway, inside the greenhouse, so triple glazed if you will. The peas will be grown inside the greenhouse as I did last year to get an early crop, the Beans will go in a raised bed outside in a month or so when hopefully the frosts will have gone.

 

Despite the weather outside, things are growing along all be it a bit slow, sowed some fleurs, Hemp Agrimony and Sweet Peas, the Sweet Peas will again be grown on inside the greenhouse in the border. Radish sown in the border soil have germinated for early salad crop, must sow some lettuce tomorrow.

 

I've enjoyed looking at your thread @burnie , although the vids. on here are no longer showing, but I'll look at your youTube ones.
Looking forward to seeing this year's adventures. Hope the weather Thurs night and yesterday wasn't too problematic. The weekend isn't looking too promising, although I think you might be escaping a good bit of it.

Do the sweet peas not get a bit fried in your gr'house?

 

Hi fairygirl, thanks for the comments, the videos are now only available on youtube to subscribers I believe, I will have a look. The Sweetpeas are usually finished by the end of June, so the heat isn't usually a problem, we get a nice crop of early flowers for the house and the greenhouse smells amazing.
As we don't usually get much of a summer over here on the east coast, growing tender crops in the greenhouse allows us to get crops that I normally can't grow outside and a bit earlier too. A lot of experimenting going on, most have worked so far.

 

Yes - I had a look @burnie but the videos didn't come up on YouTube either.
Totally different conditions for you over there - my s. peas don't really start growing until May, and flowering before July would be very rare, but they continue until Autumn, until the weather annihilates them.
Having them under cover certainly means a nice early crop though - I've never thought of doing that. Maybe I'll stick a couple of plants in there this year. I only have a smallish growhouse, but it's needing replaced in the next couple of years, and I was looking at Rhinos. I don't have a big space for one, so I may have to compromise a bit. I mainly use the gr'house for tomatoes and just starting off anything hardy.

 

Should be a couple on now

 

Thanks @burnie - will take a wee look at those

 

As it's raining, did a bit of potting on in the greenhouse, three types of peppers we like, Anaheim, Peppo di Rosso and Torro di Rosso all now in half litre old yoghurt pots(re-cycling in progress here)
The cells fore the tomatoes are filled and warming up in the heated prop in the house, probably be sown tomorrow, with the weather we are having, no rush yet.

 

Connected up one of the roof windows to the pair of auto vents as it's getting warm inside. Peas are growing in one corner for an early crop, Radish and Lettuce growing under glass to, even spotted flowers on the Strawberries too.

 

Two nights ago it was 1.3 degrees inside the greenhouse, but things are looking ok, strawberries flowering well, peas are growing, moved the chillies/peppers from the conservatory to the blowaway inside the greenhouse. Tomatoes potted on into larger half litre old yoghurt pots, got way too many again lol.

 

Potted the chillies/peppers on into their final pots today, just hope the frost doesn't comeback, they are now in the greenhouse as they are too big for the conservatory now.

 

Most of the tommies are now in the greenhouse, not yet planted, still in yoghurt pots, will plant in the next day or so. Sowed my Sweetcorn, which I grow under glass up here.

 

Tommies in their final growing places and now removing side shoots from the "arm pits", peas are flowering, strawberries ripening, lettuce romping away and the sweetcorn is growing nicely. Overnight temperatures are still dropping just into single figures, but everything looking ok.