🌿🍅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

         

Pottering about in the Greenhouse

I had planned to pull out my sewing things and do some patchwork , but I went up to open up the greenhouse window and ended up taking down the insulation from the greenhouse rafters and pottering about watering and checking on things and marvelling at things and making fresh plans and and and ... you know how it goes !

                      Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri 

 This was a small cutting from my mum's plant over twenty years ago ....and hers was a cutting from my grandmother's plant . 

It has been a blaze of red flame-like star flowers for several weeks now ! 

I think most people know this as an Easter Cactus .

 With those flame like flowers it is more of a Pentecost Cactus than an Easter Cactus . 

Up in the greenhouse the Tomatoes need watering , they're doing well .

 

  I am feeding them now at about every other watering .

I want to make sure everything has been watered before the up coming warmer temperatures this coming weekend .

 If we get more rain , that too will be good to refill the water barrels over night .

I may have lost one of the ferns under the end bench .  I need to pull that out and see if I can revive it . I have a very delicate Epiphyllum under there ... can't remember what it is . Might be Epiphyllum oxypetalum  🤔I need to pull it out and check the label . I'll do that tomorrow .

 

I still need to get my little fountain going in there ! That can be a job for my grandson when he next comes to visit .....also to see if there are any potatoes in my spud-tubs !

Everything is looking healthy and lush .

Bowiea volubilis is going crazy now along with my one remaining Passiflora manicata . The others were/still are outside , not sure if they survived the winter , need to check on them . Meanwhile Passiflora manicata in the greenhouse is very happy and I will sort out a more permanent place for it in there in due course .

So at the moment , everything is scrabbling about together happily ....and I don't mind !

                                  Plants of all nations !

                Polacanthus dinosaur on snail munching duty 🐌

Cucumber vine sneaking across to say "hello" to the Sweet Peppers . 

I took down the winter insulation from along the greenhouse rafters . That is now  rolled up and stored away to be reused next winter . 

 I leave the shade netting up along this side of the greenhouse , for the Epies , ferns and the more shade loving plants .

  This will give more light in for the cacti , sweet peppers and tomato plants on the other side .

The Cucumbers are doing brilliantly ..all over the place !

 I'm waiting for the postman to deliver a nice bundle of paracord . Then I can fix up some gentle support for them .

But it's o.k. I can still get in and move around in there to tend to them all .

I forgot to take that Cucumber today . I'll take it tomorrow for our salad .

A huge Nasturtium has popped up in one pot . Where have you come from ? 

I didn't sow any Nasturtium seeds ..I wonder what colour that will be ?

A few more Agaves to  tidy up and re-pot .This one is Agave americana .

 This is a beauty ! I don't know which variety it is . It is a very slow growing one .

But then Agaves stay small until you repot them and then they quickly grow to fill the new bigger pot ! 

  I might take this one out and give it a much grander size pot . 

If you plant them out into the garden ......

                       ...they can quickly grow to the size of a mini car !

                 That's all fer today folks !

               🌿🕊️  Love and Peace and a bit more sunshine ☀️💐🌿

                                          love Debbie  x

                                                🌧️🌦️🌧️