This latest weekend was a good one in terms of progress towards the full growing season. The greenhouse is now fully installed and useable and we now have a fantastic solid workbench / shelf (thanks to my Dad for building it!). I have moved a lot of my seed propagators to the greenhouse now as well as a ‘Demon red’ chilli bush that has survived the winter indoors. It produced a fantastic yield last season and I’m hoping for more of the same.
My spring onions have all now sprouted and I have moved them from indoors to one of my cold frames which are now ontop the garage roof.
We also now have a long row of 12 strawberry plants placed in our newly created bed opposide our raised bed. I’m hoping these will be really successful.
I am also hoping to try out my hydroponics kit that has been sitting in my loft for the past year. It’s something I dabbled in last year but never really got going. We will be running power into the greenhouse soon and then I will be able to give it a go. I use a technique called NFT (Nutrient Film Technique) which is where a pump moves water laced with a plant nutrient solution from a resevoir below over a film in which the plant roots have grown. It is used a lot in giant commercial growing and something that has interested me for a while. More updates on that when I get it up and running.
