Greenhouse!

Having already overflowed the bay window I grow my chillies in, I guess I should build the greenhouse I got in the January sales. It's been sat in the hall waiting for me to get round to it.

To be fair, nobody wants to start digging soil to put slabs down in the ice/snow/wind of January do they?

Here's the base. Literally just dug over the soil and flattened it, and eased the slabs into a vaguely flat pattern.

It's a tiny greenhouse really. If I'd realised how small, I might have gone for a size bigger. The main problem I will have is the roof is too low - but, I guess we'll see.

The greenhouse, for the record, was this one from homebase. It cost me £151.99. :)

I'm aware that it has bad reviews too. But, seriously, £151.99....for a greenhouse.....

Grow Update - 8 Feb 2014

I'm afraid there's not much to say, everything is growing pretty slowly at this time of year and obviously no signs of fruits or flowers, so the updates are slow too.

2nd batch of seeds are germinating nicely though:

Nice quick germination even on the bhut jolokia this time. The only one that I'm waiting for is Tabasco, which is turning out to be quite a stubborn one! Perhaps a dodgy batch of seeds...

All the pre-xmas plants are nice and green which is a relief. Today's quite sunny too, so I'm sure they're appreciating it!

As a side note, that arrangement pictured above, of 7 pots to one big pot tray, works really well!

Peter Pepper Seeds!

For those of you who haven't heard of Peter Pepper, then you need to go google it now.

It's singly the most rude plant known to mankind. I mean, seriously.

So, when I had the chance to get some seeds? Of course I did!

Good news too - they have germinated. How did I germinate them? Nothing special, just the heated propagator. Took exactly 7 days, which is surprisingly short too. Must be nice and toasty in that propagator!