Tomato’s, Cucumbers, Peppers and Sunflowers on the Deck

I potted on my Tomato’s (golden sunrise or green zebra) and Cucumbers (marketmore) last week and wanted to place them on the decking to get the most amount of sun possible. However under the decking in the dark only coming out at night or in heavy rainfall lurk the slimy ones. Those creatures who shall remain nameless are becoming almost celebrity status with all the press coverage recently (Daily Mail article 18.06.08).

I did a bit of recycling with my old 3 tier mini greenhouse. I broke apart the unit so that the 3 shelves and racks were separate. I laid down some old fleece onto the decking to stop the blighters from coming up in between the decking. Then I placed the racking down onto the fleece and the tomatos and cucumbers onto the racking.

Of course I’m thinking theres no way a slug can climb that racking (all that slime and no grip on thin metal squares), so prey tell me how the bloomin hell do they manage to get in the pots? mind you I think it has fooled some of the less energetic ones as I’ve only found a few evil knievel slugs so far.

And lets check on the sweet peppers:

And finally the household Sunflower competition.

My dad gave us some sunflower seeds he received free in his local newspaper a year ago. I’ve only just got round to sowing them so I made a bit of a competition out of it between me and my other half. We sowed 2 seeds each and they will be going into the flower border soon so here are the results so far:

Tracey’s on the left and Colin’s on the right. At the moment and rightly so being the gardener of the house, I definitely have a slight lead by a few centimeters.
(I’m ignoring the cries of its a fix from the workshop!)

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Tag, you’re It

If your not of-ay with the blogging term ‘tagged’ its like of a game of IT or tag in the blogosphere and I’ve been tagged by a fellow gardening blogger.

This is the first time I have been tagged and its fun seeing what other people have put for their random facts about themselves,

So thanks to Greenforks for tagging me and heres the rules:-

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write six random things about yourself.
Tag six people at the end of your post linking to their blog.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Heres for the interesting bit – 6 random facts about myself:-

• I love heavy metal music,
• I would like to own a small-holding with enough room to have a very big polytunnel and lots of vegetable plots in Scotland,
• I would like to setup my own business,
• I have a degree in Environmental Science but have a job in Accounts,
• I live with my other half – Colin and 2 entertaining cats – Dave and Ted,
• I’m not a fan of hot food and I don’t like chili.

Heres the next bloggers I’m going to tag, I read their blogs regularly through Google Reader and I recommend their sites for a good read:-

Gardenopolis,

Multiveg’s Plot Ramblings,

In the Toads Garden,

Soilman’s Allotment Blog,

My Darlington Allotment,

Vegmonkey and the Mrs

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