Cleaning Up the Hothouse

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Messy but still somewhat producing hothouse

The hothouse was really looking a bit feral. It wasn’t a bad day today – the wind had died down and we got more sun and no rain! I was actually in a t-shirt for most of it!

Its really tempting to pull up everything and make things look nice and orderly. But a couple of the tomato plants are still slowly producing ripe tomatoes. And on the very cusp of winter, who wants to stop that?

Once I had gotten a bit of space I paid a visit to my broccolini- and -possibly- mini-cabbage farm

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I may need some more space…

Last season I had some wonderful broccoli in the hothouse so why not use a few of my excess plants in there?

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Outside I would plant them a bit closer, but in here they are known to grow hugely! Here’s hoping
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These have a good possibility of being cabbage.

This tomato I didn’t know I had. It was quietly growing in the tangle of older plants. Its really spindly but has plenty of fruit! So I tied it up and gave it a feeding (kelp juice) and watering. There is also a potato randomly growing at its feet. Have no clue why, but left it there anyway

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My ‘potting bench’ had all but disappeared

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Disgraceful!!

Emptied pots, threw out rubbish and generally made the area a useful one again

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Improvements

It was too late to clear out the top corner of the ?? whatever the hell has accumulated in there ?? so I paused to admire my progress…

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Feeling much better about this

Then moved my sights to the raised garden bed out the back of the hothouse.

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The tomato plant was still producing tomatoes, but something was eating them before I could pick them. So I picked all the rest of the unripe tomatoes and cleared out everything except the silverbeet, which the chickens enjoy snacking on.

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Ready for more plants

Found some good fat worms in here!

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Glad to see this fellow

New home for some more of the excess seedlings.

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Hope they survive their new home

Mind you, I will probably go out tomorrow and see them all doing backstroke or dog paddling (depending on their level of swimming skills) because it is raining so hard out there tonight! I took a shower a while ago and the sound of the rain was drowning out the sound of the shower!

Mad

Happily I stuck to my rule of ‘when its not raining top up firewood at back door’ rule

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Keeping us cosy during the evening

Hope everyone else is keeping warm and dry!

Cheers

Author: Lisa

A happy traveller through life! Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens. We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.

2 thoughts on “Cleaning Up the Hothouse”

  1. Lisa, I know nothing about your weather, but the cusp of winter must be like our fall, or so I’m guessing. How cold does it get there in the winter? I love that you’re still collecting veggies and planting new ones.
    Hope the rain has stopped. It was so cold here in upstate NY today, and very windy. There was actually snow in the Adirondacks, hello! it’s May 16th. Oh well just got to go with the flow.

    1. Wind off the snow is unkind!!
      Today we are apparently having a low of 6C (42F) and a high of 16C (60F). Right now there is lovely sunshine – but it rained really heavily overnight.
      During winter we wont get snow in our area, but overnight we might go to 0C or a bit below (32F). Inland its much colder with snow etc which I am actually quite glad we don’t get. Advantages to being on the coast.
      Hope you warm up soon! You must be looking forward to summer!!

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