Stupidly excited

You guys, look what I bought myself.

You have not lived until you’ve tried to put together a flat pack greenhouse with 2 children running under your feet, stealing poles, nicking joiners, losing the poles and joiners in the long grass and smacking each other with sticks. Isaac also tromped all over the tomatoes and pulled out a pea plant or two. Kids. Nathan eventually came out to help – not so much help me put it together, but stop the kids impaling themselves on poles.

Anyway.

I am stupidly excited about this. A greenhouse is something I have lusted after for years – ever since we put our garden in and realised that Tassie gets barely 3 months of decent growing season, before the frosts come back and kill off the tomatoes.

With a greenhouse, I’m hoping I can extend our season enough so that I’m growing things for 9 months out of twelve. Cucumbers! Capsicum! Melons! They will all actually ripen.

I ordered it online from a sales website and worried that it wouldn’t be any good. But it’s sturdy enough and the plastic is mesh filled, to prevent tearing, definitely something I need with small ones (and sticks) running around.

Now I can grow more tomatoes! Even when it gets frosty!

Like I said. Stupidly excited.

Inside are my cucumbers, watermelons, luffa, basil, lettuce, cauliflowers and my honeydew melons. I’ll add tomatoes and probably some more cucumbers in the next few weeks.

The rest of the garden is doing well too. The heirloom tomatoes are ready to stake and the pumpkins are taking off. Sort of anyway.

Pumpkin at the bottom, rock melon middle left, basil and collard in the middle, tomatoes through the rest of it, with some bush peas and corn thrown in for good measure. (wide angle lens. the garden is bigger than it looks here.)

The house garden is going mad too, between the peas and potatoes, I can’t walk through my path in the middle anymore. Somewhere in there are climbing beans. I’m hoping they’ll make it to the surface to flower eventually.

I’ve been madly picking snow peas and our strawberries are starting to ripen too.

In the very left hand corner, next to the white plank, you can see a bush? That’s my black currant bush. My two grandmothers struck that for me, before Nan died. I’m so pleased it’s doing well and my great grandmother will be too when she sees it at Christmas. I’ll take cuttings to strike when the new growth hardens up a bit. It’s covered in berries at the moment, we’re just waiting for them to ripen.

And ducklings.

Because what kind of blogging duck farmer would I be, if I didn’t share photos of the fuzzy cuteness?

Platter appearance by Frogpondsrock – it was full of shell grit, but I filled it full of water just after this photo, just for the babies. I really shouldn’t put her ceramics outside for the animals, but it was the only thing I had at the time. Heh.