May has been quite a busy gardening month for me, what with expanding into my Grandad’s garden with all of the extra plants that I no longer had room for. A lot of the time was spent building the new boxes and beds and I ended up adding more to the box that went under the existing perspex arch.
I have put 6 of my ‘gardener’s delight’ plants that I had left over in this one. I used small green cable ties to fix them to the bamboo and these are in turn tied to the top of the arch.
This raised bed is going to be used mostly for beans.
Back in the other garden the original raised bed is looking good. Lettuce, carrots, raddish, potatos and onions all doing well here. I also saw some spare space in between the carrots and added an extra row of spring onions.
I have added two extra growbags to the greenhouse shelves each containing 2 x cucumber plants and 1 x aubergine. I have tried cucumber outside before and it didn’t do so well so I’m hoping that it will be more successful in the greenhouse.
I now have some nearly red strawberries on the way and should be ready for picking soon!
