Summary of my Autopot activities for July 09.
Wife agreed to getting extra greenhouse/poly tunnel for the garden. She has slowly got used to the idea of getting fresh vegetables from the garden instead of the supermarket.
After much tought I decided to get another 6ft by 8ft green house instead of poly tunnel ( always next year for that).
This month is a bit after the event.
1 – 21 July 09
1. Cleared green house base area. This is next to first green house. Site gets early morning sun upto about 4pm when the sun passes behind a neighbours trees. The greenhouse is orentated West to East and will get winter sun for most of the winter (possibly not around the period 15th December to 15 January). I had been noting areas in the garden that were getting winter sun to help plan the planting of my squarefoot gardens.
2. Build Green house – Basic B&Q 6ft by 8ft
Green House Waiting Glass
3. Ordered Autopot green house system with aquapots and 100ltr water butt to use in strawberry tubs ( my tubs kept drying out – killing plants). I have some strawberries growing in my raised beds but tubs use less space.
4. Installed Autopots in green house.
Installed Greenhouse Autopot System
5. Transplanted two sweet pepper plants from raised beds. This plants were being swamped by nearby tomatoes. The sweet pepper plants were “left overs” from my propagation sessions. I think they are “Califormia Wonder”
Two transplanted Sweet Peppers
6. Sown pea and bean seeds in propagator. As it is late in the season will plant some late beans(Tender Green Dwarf Bean) and peas (Kelvedon Wonder) as experiment.
- Simple Pea Keledon Wonder Trial - Seedlings transplanted on 23 July
