Greenhouse jam...

 

You can just see a snow covered Ben Lomond...80 miles away by road or 51 miles as the crow flies. (Do crows fly in straight lines?)

Greenhouse traffic jam....potting on and potting up due and it is still too cold to put them out. They will have to go in the polytunnel on the staging that I built using old pallets.

The washing machine is running again at last! New brushes and the door tweaked so that it properly triggers the switch put in last time.

A little light gardening

 We worked together on the greenhouse staging today, Pirate had already painted the frame, and we bartered homemade apple juice and marmalade for wood offcuts from our joiner neighbour.

Luckily we made it one centimetre shorter....and it only just fitted! 

Pirate siezed the opportunity to use his Xmas present tools...they will be just for the greenhouse.

greenhouse harvest

The greenhouse is a sorry sight, but is still producing.  We haven't had a severe frost yet....

The seeds from the Coriander in the picture have been boxed, the rest of the plants will smell wonderful when we next light a fire in the stove!

We're still picking spicy salad leaves from a late sowing and the calabrese that ended up in the greenhouse is still giving small florets. This despite having been discovered by caterpillars in September!  The last sowing of beetroot only has large marble sized roots, but the leaves are delicious instead of spinach...much tastier in salad or stirfry.