The Gourgette ‘Green Bush’ has died! I’m not really too sure of the cause though, it has had exactly the same treatment as the ‘Midnight’ which is doing great but has just keeled over – the stem has gone yellow and the plant can no longer support itself. Ah well, it will free up some room for something else.
The top left in this picture is the ‘midnight’. Also in here is the bigger pepper plant from last year and the ‘demon red’ chilli plant.
We have also now setup our final tomato locations. We have 2 x grow bags in an ‘L’ shape in the corner which hold 6 plants. The grow bags sit on big plastic trays and we then slot metal brackets through the bags. Once the brackets are in you can push the ends together at the top and slide down a bamboo stick. The brackets keep the bamboo stick completely steady and will also provide extra support for the plants when bigger. It’s a great system and I’m really happy with it.
We have put 4 x ‘Gardener’s Delight’ and 2 x ‘Ailsa Craig’ varities in these bags and I’m hoping that this will provide our main tomato produce this year.
The tomatos were very ready for planting!
In the small cold frame I have moved all of the current ‘california wonder’ peppers, corriander and basil plants.
Just about everything we planted in the raised bed is now coming through nicely…
Here is a comparison between corriander grown in soil and grown in the hydroponics. They were both planted at the same time. As you can see it likes the hydro environment a lot more!
