Morning all.
This thread disappeared from my active threads box when I was on my hols I think.
Anyhow - glad to be back.
I think 2015 will be the year of the Confused Courgette for me. Hardly any this year. Only a few produced. Apart from one plant which got going very very [very] late, and so the courgettes were very small, but last week when I composted it, it had over 50 courgettes on it. Yellow ones at that. We made Happiness Soup with them [which is my main reason for growing yellow courgettes].
And last week, we stripped down the polytunnel, and harvested all the tomatoes and achocha. Loads of tomatoes are still green but as they ripen we will freeze for winter soups at the community garden.
And I have a decent gang of students, who have dug over very weedy patches, mulched ready for green manures if we can sow them in time; and who have also made good inroads chopping back our sloe forest, from one self seeded sloe - which we are making this winter into a foraging forest garden.
Will be starting to move our Mass Rocket Heater after half term into our polytunnel as we are turning it mainly into an outdoor classroom with lots of woodwork stations, and preparing for our Geodesic Dome build next spring. Yippee.
And at home, we are in the middle of changing our slate and bed garden into a forest garden with a central winding grass path; nearly halfway through removing the slate [we had 3 tonnes to remove] and putting a brick edge in, then just moving plants to where we want them and then it is time to sow the grass seed. And as a bonus, I am buying a new potting shed for down there. I must admit it is lovely at the moment down there, working next to the canal, with the ducks coming over all the time to see what we are up to.
It is all go here at Lethal Towers. Hope all is well and Murphy recovers.
Pics of our Mass Rocket Heater just for info if you have never heard of them. You light a fire at one one, it burns horizontally and up the inside of the metal tank. Which gets very hot and can be cooked on. The smoke then travels down the inside of the metal tank [there is a chimney inside it] and down through the long horizontal seating area and out the end. The seating area, once lime rendered, gets warm and provides a nice warm place to park your butt on cold wintery days.