Sorting Out The Hothouse (Again)

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As you can see, I don’t suffer from OCD! Overdue for a clean up

Hello – Weekend here and among various other things today, I got myself into the hothouse and did a bit of organising

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First step is to take everything out and put it on the lawn to bug Jeff
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I have decided I need a separate shed for all my gardening ‘stuff’ so I can keep my hothouse purely for growing things.
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Dug up a spot and added some blood & bone plus some mushroom compost

Slim pickings when it came to treasure today

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Planted some more basil – they seemed so happy in the hothouse I figured they could stay. My outside basil is slooooow

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I put the soaker hose around the hothouse so I can run it for a good soaking instead of hand watering all the time.

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Less than a week ago I popped a few tomato laterals in a jar of water

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This was today:

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Roots everywhere. Might send them home with Mum to see if she can get them going somewhere in her garden. These are from the Russian Black tomato. (Yum)

I also took a couple of the advanced self seeded tomatoes out of the hothouse before they got too big and popped them in the outside vegetable patch. Made up a dodgy wind break and will just have to hope for the best.

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The colour might frighten off the bugs… ??

Next task? Weeding the beetroot. Maybe a tomorrow job!

Hope your weekend is super!

Cheers

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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 “Sorting Out The Hothouse (Again)”

  1. Lisa,
    That red around your tomatoes is really brilliant! Red is supposed to encourage tomatoes. There is science in it, don’t ask me to explain it because I am a very un-science person. Have a neighbor who has special red plastic on the ground in his tomato patch. Every year his tomato yields are huge, so I will believe that it helps.
    Elizabeth

    1. Wow – I have never come across that idea before… I will have to go on a stroll through google and see what I can find. Only by luck I had that material – was supposed to be to cover the broccoli one year from cabbage moth but I have some ‘proper stuff’ now
      I must say I was really surprised to see both of those tomato plants totally bounced back yesterday looking like they had never been moved!! I will leave the red there and note the progress!! Thanks for sharing that!

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