I know what it is!

The mystery is solved!  I am growing Broad Beans which means that I appear to have a Spring GroBox and should thus also eventually see Onions, Peas, Spinach, Carrots, Ruby Chard, Tomatoes, Radish and Lettuce springing up!

The Mystery Plant....

It's getting more mysterious by the day!  The mystery plants have started flowering and I still have no idea what they are... but they're very pretty :D

I wanna know what it is already!

The green beans are also starting to bloom and putting out some gorgeous red buds

The strawberries are being cursed by their own success; unfortunately as the strawberries get plumper they weigh down the stems supporting them and several have bent over the edge of the plastic pockets damaging the plant so that nutrients aren't getting through and the stem (and strawberries :o) die.  I think I need to rig some curved protectors so they don't damage themselves but for now this cunning arrangement of canes will have to do!

On the plus side they're putting out runners like crazy and as long as I can keep them healthy I should have a truly ridiculous number of strawberry plants next year!

All grown up

My little plants are getting all grown up now and showing signs of fruiting. I imagine I'll get used to it over time but at the moment I still get a lovely sense of wonder when I look out of the back door and see my drab stone patio covered in lovely vibrant growing things!

Just a quick post today but here are some photos of the growing that's been going on:

No sign of fruit yet but it's definately getting 'bushier'

These little guys are growing so well I had to tie on extra canes to keep them going... if they get much taller I'm going to need a ladder to harvest them tho ;p

Apparently Rhubarb does just fine in pots - that leaf at the bottom is easily 3 dinner plates in size!

Even the latecomers are getting on well - this is the Raspberry cane that used to just be a stick!

It's growing well... and I still have no idea what it is!

I think 'Yummmmm' about covers this one

The tomatoes seem to have recovered from their brush with the frost but I think I need to seperate them out a bit more; at the moment they look rather like one mega-plant!

Oh Dear.... My poor indoor tomato had a nasty run in with the wind - it was a lot more spindly that the outside tomatoes and got knocked over :(  It's now tied to the fence and shortly after this picture I removed all the broken limbs... poor thing looks a little bare now but I'm hopeful it might make it through as the top is still growing nicely.

It seems I forgot to take a photo of the potatoes but they too are thriving - bushy greens are now springing out of the top of the grow bag and i've banked it up with compost to the top. Tasty taties are anticipated!

Signs Of Life

I think that the lovely warm weather over the weekend has tempted my GroBox vegetables to venture out into the light.  I have been studiously watering it for 3 weeks now and was a little uncertain if I was treating it right - with the baby plants it's easy to see if they've got enough water or not but the bare earth doesn't really give such a good idea!  I've settled for drenching it thoroughly and it looks like it's been working because today I saw two little tiny green stems poking out of the surface.  I had to double check to make sure they were actually growing and hadn't just fallen into the bag but they are real *grins*.  Now to wait just a couple more weeks and I can start trying to guess what they are!

Planting - Garden in a Box

"The Grobox: A Garden in a Box" leapt of the shelf and into my trolley as we toured Lakeland in Windemere during our recent trip to the lakes.  A cunningly simple solution to the problem of growing things... the instructions state that you simply need to bury the box and water occasionally so I did:

Grobox prior to burying

The box promises an entire vegetable gardens worth of goodies so in about 6 weeks time I should see things start to poke their little heads through those holes!

Edit: Looking at the picture above I was having trouble seeing how the plants would be able to survive that close together and after reading the grobox website I think I will follow their modified instructions and fold the lid underneath the box - this should make it much easier for me to seperate out the seedlings when they grow bigger and move some of them into my spare grow bag so they aren't stiffling each other.