Hothouse Clean Up

Another job on my list taken care of. Most of the plants in the hothouse were past their best, so out they went. The cabbage that has been there since last season… it was half heartedly going to seed so I gave it to the chooks!
Out came the failed eggplants, most of the tomatoes and the basil. (And the weeds)

I left a couple of the tomatoes – still one or two tomatoes left that we might get.

Collected the last of the basil seed.

I saw an interesting idea when it comes to growing potatoes… and since I wanted to try to winter a couple of plants in the hothouse, I thought it would be fun to try.

So… cut the bottoms out of two old large pots…

Found some keen potatoes!
I’ve just put in some straw and some cow-poo-straw and covered them up. Will top up on soil as they grow.
The idea at the end is to be able to pick up the pot and have the soil and potatoes drop out. I think three is too many for one pot… but… its all in the name of experimenting.

I put some more snow peas in as well… since most of the last lot got eaten!

All done.

I spent a lot of time later in the afternoon waiting for a snail to come out of its shell and pose for a particular photo I wanted for the current challenge.
What a pain that is!! I fired two snails before settling on ‘Sebastian’ who at least wasn’t either acting totally dead, or didn’t froth up in a mass of bubbles and fall off the item I perched him on.

I am sure I’ll share the outcome of the photos once I’ve posted it in the challenge group.
In the meantime… there’s a grasshopper photo to look at instead, as I was wandering about looking for things to amuse myself while Sebastian was coming out of his shell.

Hope you’ve had a great day!
Cheers!