Planting Out

Well another lovely day! In the UK it is pretty grim with all the snow, it makes you feel a bit guilty when you complain about silly things going wrong in the garden. I have took my little plantlings out of their safe houses, these were constructed to protect the plants from the wind and hottest of sun, they are really making a difference to the yield. I planted out a melon plant I grew from seed, it really is a nervous moment, it seems that sometimes things just don´t take or the weather turns nasty and I wish I hadn´t removed them from the safety of the their plant house but I have got a system whereby I plant one out and plant one into a pot so I can always move the potted one about. My potatoes that I planted in December are doing well, a little bent over from the storms but they have started to flower. The next crop aren´t so good but will bank up today, this usually brings them on. I use my own homemade compost, we started with a homemade wooden box, made from internal shelf wood that we had leftover but it wasn´t built to last, it served its purpose and proved to my non green fingered husband that making your own compost works so we invested in a big plastic one, which seems to be better at generating more heat.
Well enough bletherings better get back to the garden!

Busy time in the Garden

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It has been a busy day in the garden today! The weather has just been glorious, no wind and wall to wall sunshine. I have transplanted some tomato plants I grew from seed and harvested some parsley, marjoram, rosemary and packaged some dried lemon thyme that I harvested some days ago. I have posted this on my Etsy site at http://www.pixiepod.etsy.com/

Rain in Tenerife!

Well what was I saying about Sun being a bit of a problem when gardening in Tenerife. It seems the rain is not letting up. As you can see from this photo a lot fell at one time causing all sorts of problems across the canary islands and more recently and tragically in Madeira. The garden has recovered and only minimal losses of small seedlings but I managed to get all to the safety of little plant cupboards that were originally built to protect the plants from the winds and the hot sun.

En el jardin

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I am using this blog to express all my trials and tribulations of gardening in Tenerife. For those of you not living here, you may think it is a breeze growing here with all the sunshine - BUT - it is not! It is a reall challenge. I live in the South and in a plot that has never had a thing growing on it, well except lots of native weeds in amongst the rocks. However, this won´t be all doom and gloom, infact I hope to show that gardening, be it challenging or not can show us all the way to a better and happier life.