🌿🍅Harvesting a few Tomatoes makes me Happy 🌿🦋

 

In my happy place earlier this morning .

My Snack-bite Red Sweet Peppers are looking amazing ! 

Pelargonium Amethyst is still putting on a lovely show .

 Bowiea volubilis  scrabbling up to the rafters is also flowering now .

                                Flowers like little stars !  

Passiflora manicata is growing well . I think I'm going to repot it into a much bigger pot and put it into one corner of the greenhouse where it can grow like crazy and hopefully flower .  Red ! It's going to have a red flower !   🤗  Ooh there's a little cucumber !

In amongst the Monstera delicosa vine I find another one ready to pick .

I grow just enough for two and I take some over to my daughter if she needs them . The rest I slice in half , open freeze and bag up for the freezer . We are still using up last year's harvest .

Watering everything is becoming absolute drudgery now 😒 ..... we really need some proper rain .

 We had some mizzle the night before last , but really , the dew on the grass was more plentiful than the overnight rain .

The sun is shining but it's blowing a gale here ! and it has been like this for the last two or three days . 

I'm having a quiet day today ....

        ........ in the summerhouse , sharing a few biscuit crumbs with my friend .

              

         🕊️🤍🎶    Yep ...I'm in a medieval mood again ..... 🦌🏹🌳🦋

                  I'd be far happier back in those times   .

I probably wouldn't be growing tomatoes , peppers or cucumbers though ....or potatoes ................what no chips ? !!!  😱                

                 Peace and Love 🤍🕊️🌿

                                       Debbie 💐x

         

🌿🍅Time to Tidy Tomatoes ! 🌿🌿🌿🍅

           At last the tomatoes are beginning to ripen !

    Now's the time to selectively take off unwanted side shoots .....not necessarily all of them .  

Starting to see the odd yellowing leaf .....so I take them off  ..... give them a goodly drink of water and a wee drop of tomato feed . 

Meanwhile in the shed ....

         All of my Epie cuttings are starting to show signs of recovering .

                    Lots of new rosie tipped shoots  .

                            They look much happier now .

                  Agave mediopicta alba and Senecio scaposus

Amorphophallus atroviridis  update  --

                    That new shoot is coming ....very ..... very slowly  .

                So I am pretty sure I planted him the right way up now ! 🤗

Other news ......

              I don't want to talk about it  ........ sigh .......

                                   Peace and Love  🕊️ ....grrrrr .....

                                            Debbie 💐x

 

Amorphophallus atroviridis

Up early to water the vegetable garden . It's going to be another hot day .

No hose pipe ban here yet , but I am being careful not to waste water , only watering the vegetable garden and Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers in the greenhouse and lettuces and brassica seedlings in the shed .

Got soaked this morning as the connection to the hose pipe burst !

Exciting news ! ( for those who like weird plants )

Back in January I acquired a very rare bulb .  🤗

        Amorphophallus atroviridis  .....I knew he could be a tricky one to grow but thought I'd take a chance .

                                                         Weird !

                                    I'm in love !   😍

 So I got him potted up , put him on the landing windowsill at the top of the stairs ... 

I planted him with what I thought was the top , just the very tippy top , showing above the compost .

   At this time we had the central heating on , so the cottage was fairly warm .

 

Weeks went by and nothing was happening . Weeks then months .

Fearing it may have rotted away , last week , I decided to take him out of the pot to check .

 

He was still in there .  🤔

It looked no different to when it first arrived !

So I thought I'd re-pot him in some different fresh compost and put him in the shed .  It gets very very warm in there with the morning sun , then not such strong sunlight as the sun moves around to the back later on . 

  🌿🌿 He's in there amongst all the happy vibes of all the other plants . 🌿🌿

     It's actually a great place to start my seeds and strike cuttings .

So the good news , is that I think I can see a shoot coming ! 😀🌿🐌

 I have slug pelleted all around it and put in two sticky fly traps to protect it .🐜🦟🪲🐛

                              There's a new shoot coming !!

    Now I am keeping my fingers crossed that he will soon put up some  beautiful bluey/green leaves which are said to be streaked with pink .

   I might increase the watering slightly .

Anyone out there growing this ?  Send me your ideas on this please !! 

Meanwhile .....

                         ....the Lettuces are doing great !

                                     Love and Peace 💛🕊️🌿

                                                🌿☀️🌿