Banana Plant Winter Care - Cornwall

 

A few more pics of our morning walk after a good breakfast .

            Didn't need a coat . Didn't need a jumper .  It was foggy but warm .

It is forecast to be warm all week  . Starting to get that Autumnal look with blackberries and silvery cobwebs glistening in the hedgerow 

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    It soon cleared and after playing with other people's dogs ,chatting with friends and visitors along the way , we came home pleasantly tired .

 Soon revived with cups of tea , toast and orange marmalade .

  I decided to make a start bringing some of my more tender plants into their Winter shelter zones .

  Banoonaah number one - Musa ensete maurellii -  🐒🏝️🍌

 The one up on the bank .

                                    Bish ! Bash ! Bosh !

                              ......and into the wheelbarrow !

                       Then away to the woodshed ......

Where I pot it up in it's very large tub with some new compost mixed with perlite .

It is both standing on and surounded with polystyrene packaging and there is light coming in through the clear plastic corrugated roof .

  I just need to water it to settle it in . It now has some time to get it's roots down into the nice new compost before we go into Winter . 

 I don't cut leaves off , nor do I trim the roots . As we go into the colder months I hardly water it at all . I just keep it ticking over in a dormant state until late Spring .

                                    That just leaves these two .

       Musa basjoo - stays outside and I can throw a cloche over it if need be .

        

 ⭐ If you live up country , then you will have to bring this one under cover too .

   Best to see what people are doing where you are , but here in the far south west of Cornwall , Musa basjoo is fairly hardy .  It will get pretty tatty but it should recover .⭐  

This one will be next , but I just need to pace myself really and so I'll wait a few days to get my strength up again  .  Maybe tomorrow ..... see how I feel .

⭐ I forgot to say - useful tip ....after digging up your banana...dig out the hole nicely and put a bucket or large empty pot into the hole to keep it open . So it is an easier job to re-plant next year !   ⭐

             Off now for walk number two and a picnic .

                         " Everyday is a picnic day !"

                          Peace and love 🕊️🤍

                                          love Debbie 💐x

Morning Walk along the Cliffs

       Just sharing a little of our beautiful morning walk along the cliffs .  🤍

Vegetable Garden Update - end of September .

 

I made a start replenishing the earth on this bed . Nothing that I planted here did very well .  Shallots , Runner beans , Sweetcorn ....total fail ! 

I'm glad I grew lots of French beans in another bed which were successful thankfully .

  Strange clusters of miniature Sweetcorn cobs !

 These were the "Swift" variety . I'm sure they were not meant to be like these .

        Leeks, Parsley and Rhubarb are doing o.k. at the far end of the bed .

This was the spent compost from the Tomato plants in the greenhouse .

      I had to save some of this compost to earth up the potatoes in tubs , but as we go into winter I will keep topping up this bed with the usual leaves , grass clippings

etc.

This is the second lot of "spuds in tubs" and they are looking promising .

                  I think this will be the last time of earthing up .

Meanwhile in the shed .....

  Babbington Leeks are fast asleep . Egyptian Walking Onions are racing away !

I planted them all at the same time . I will be giving the Egyptian onions to anyone who'd like some in the village and the Wild Babbington Leeks will go into the hedgerow .....that's if they ever come up !  

  I can't find potato onions for sale at a sensible price anywhere , but I have found some "everlasting onion" plants and a packet of Red Welsh Onion seeds which I want to get going somewhere in the vegetable garden . 

  I have not had any success growing proper onions for several years now , so I mostly grow Leeks instead ...but I would like some of these perennial onions that keep multiplying or bunching as they say  .

Winter Lettuce "vailan " several weeks later ..... nothing ,very disappointing .

I have not grown this variety before . I should be seeing a few little shoots coming up by now .  I'll sow some more , but I think I'll go back to my old reliable favourite "Parris Island Romaine " and "Winter Density " .

             Everything else is looking fine on the shed bench .

                           And all is well in the greenhouse .

                              Hope you're having a great weekend !

                             Peace and Love 🕊️🤍

                               

                                        love Debbie  💐x