As mentioned in my last blog post the Potatoes have grown really well and had actually started falling over out of the bags...
I have today got round to filling the remainder of each bag up with compost and standing them up a bit prouder:
The falling down Potatoes. One thing I really do wish I had done is make the wooden Potato planter idea which I have linked to elsewhere and, when I get a chance, will look up the link and put it here. They have grown so well it would have been nice to have been able to care for them a little more as these little bags really are NOT big enough at all.
This is one of the Potato plants (not sure which variety) which has been lifted and supported better by the addition of more soil around it. Hopefully this will also fill with Potatoes.
Whilst I was outside I took a few progress pictures; this is the Foxglove which is looking like at least one of the plants has survived; it will not grow fast enough for me to see a result however I think I have learned a bit and will be planting many of these in my next garden.
This is the bed with the Coriander in it, with the shop bought one clear at the front, and the stringy seed grown plants looking wind blown, but if you look closely showing signs of green returning to them. I am confident these will now take and provide herbs next year.
This slightly blurry picture is the Chives which have definitely taken and will now probably go mad like the ones before at my old garden.
Finally for this brief update I have got flowers on my Begonias which are on my bedroom windowsill right next to my head as I sleep so I am now getting some nice whiffs off them (which makes a difference, in my bedroom I can tell you...)
This Begonia just has one flower on it but it is very pretty indeed.
This one is slightly larger and is covered in flowers. I hope that these will live for more than one year; it would be nice to have these every year.
Anyway, that's me for today.
Keep growing, keep reading
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