Pembroke Pocket Garden: Tomatoes

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Thursday, 17 November 2011

Wednesday 16th November

03:56 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

Everyone finds the Tomatillos delicious! We impressed some of the ladies on the Inspire biscuit baking course with them. And we have lost many to slugs and snails. Oh well.

Jenny the Cook is using up the last of this year's tomatoes in a Chutney. She has promised us the recipe!

Possible New Look for the Garden! We're trying out ways of increasing the growing space, and making the Garden a more exciting place to walk around.

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Friday, 11 November 2011

Wednesday 9th November

03:14 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

The Garlic 'Marco' is doing well already, and has not been eaten by squirrels yet!

The Elephant Garlic is slower to sprout, but is just pushing through the soil.

Many of the tomatoes are hanging down close to the wet ground now that the branches are old and sagging. Many are rotting on the vine...

..so, the tomatoes in danger of rotting have been placed in the greenhouse in the hope that as many as possible will continue to ripen.

Some have already ripened in the greenhouse. Should we think about collecting their seeds for next year?

The Winter Parsline is doing very well. How do we eat this?

Somebody (squirrels?) is digging big holes and digging up our beetroot!

The beetroots need to be thinned to give those that aren't eaten by squirrels enough space to grow and get fat.

We need to keep an eye on drainage during the winter....

Someone has even started digging holes in the pots in the greenhouse!

The Hazel has started budding, so hopefully we will have plenty of Hazelnuts next year. The broken branches have been tidied up.

We must remeber next year to harvest the Tomatellos more often. So many have dropped and been eaten by slugs and snail. It would be nice if they shared more with us!

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Saturday, 22 October 2011

Inside the greenhouse and out

07:18 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

Some of the tomato plants are completely dying back for the winter, but they still have tomatoes ripening on them....

Some of these tomatoes have been put in the greenhouse to ripen.

Some beans and peppers have also been put in the warmth of the greenhouse in the hope that they will dry and the seeds be collected for planting next spring.

Inside the greenhouse peppers are turning a wonderful red, but outside, they are still flowering and fruiting too...

This chilli plant has vigourously flowered and fruited after the chillies it grew earlier in the year were left on the plant until they had dried in the sun. These were all harvested (for delicious and spicy meals) and the plant has done it's utmost to replace it's lost fruit and seeds.

The strawberry runners potted up and put in the greenhouse to over winter aren't looking too good.

They have now been watered, but look like they are going to need more regular attention...

Clover, our Green Manure experiment, is sprouting well, but has been dug up a bit by squirrels. A wire mesh has been placed over this container, which will hopefully protect the tiny plants.

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Saturday, 8 October 2011

Harvest 8th October

07:44 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

Bulbs are already sprouting!

Another juicy Snozcumber is on it's way.

These carrots are starting to look delicious!

But green tomatoes are starting to fall from the plants!

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Cause for concern?

07:37 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

We seem to have developed some Powdery Mildew. This can be caused by lack of air circulation which we had previously thought might be a problem in the garden.

We should destroy these plants!

Powdery Mildew on mint.

This Sage plant seems to have had it...

Uh oh! Is this Tomato Blight?

Sweet Peppers are crinkling up on the plant. Should we harvest them while they are nice plump green peppers?

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Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Sieving, seeds and Scandanavian reporters!

08:46 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

Today began with an unexpected visit from some scandavian journalists who were interested in seeing what the youth in this area are up to, following the riots of the last few days...

Here's Patrick, our youth club director, speaking with them.

Besides the swedish reporters, the session began like most others.... with watering!

The gardeners then put some organic fertiliser on the fruiting plants, such as this yellow plum tomato...

And this cucumber...isn't it getting big?

And took some photos of the insects our plants are attracting, like this bee on the borage...

Some of my plants are now beginning to produce seeds, like this nasturcium:

And this sunflower will soon be producing seeds too..

After attending the capital growth training this weekend (http://www.capitalgrowth.org/training/) Shelagh will be able to share new knowledge on how to collect seeds from me...

Other work that went on today included sieving:

Drinking tea and chatting (an important part of any community garden!)

And experimenting with exterior decoration!

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The first Wednesday of the month means FEAST time!

07:54 | Posted by Pembroke Pocket Garden |

But in order for the community to reap the fruits (and vegetables) of my harvest, they put in some work!

Look here at Dave, our local carpenter. Today he finished putting the compost bin together.

The trellises also needed tending too...Those beans are just desperate to grow up and they need some helping hands to do so...

The soil doesn't get sieved by itself either - here's Shelagh hard at work...

Here the little Tangs are helping to pot on more plants by filling containers with the magic soil mix.

After tending to trellises, pots, compost heaps and more, we finally got onto harvesting...

Here are some of my tatties and tomatoes! Don't they look delicious?