Having had an excellent yield of tomatoes, cucumbers and some sweet peppers - all grown in our plant room - it has come to an end.
I have got one very large and out of control tomato plant and some cut down peppers growing in the bed made out of a recycled chest of drawers (basketry). In this bed I grew successfully, cucumbers
the largest of all the crop
but these plants have now been removed, the leaves ravished by white fly but it doesn´t affect the crop and by now it is time for new crops.
In the plant room there are only 2 cucumber plants, 2 leggy tomato plants, rosemary cuttings that have taken wonderfully (I get very excited about making new plants from Mother plant), spider plants taken from the runners of the Mother plant which sits on a shelf in the doorway to the house (spider plants are great carbon dioxide gobblers).
Next week I will remove the remainder of the plants from the plant room and give it a really good clean. I will then leave it empty until October. In Tenerife there are two seasons for growing, May and October. It is in October when I sew my root vegetables, greens and lots of flowers.
We have decided to construct a much larger plant room, in addition to the existing one, to incorporate the vegetable beds that we have already. This will mean we can grow much more into deep beds with the protection of the wind break all around the plants (it is a bit like a poly tunnel for hot weather). I am so excited about this and will record the process.
Two more happenings - saved an orchid from the rescue section of the garden centre
look at it bloom
It was only seven euros instead of twenty euros, it is a welcoming site outside the front door.
We have lots of dragonflies at the pond again this year and I have captured these two whilst they were still
Last but by no means least I would like to introduce you to Casper our new puppy.
He is keeping us busy but we love it!
He is a little gardener in the making but I will need to train him to tell the difference between weeds and plants.
