God I love growing our own

[Amari]

For clarity, I assume you're interested in achieving relatively high temperatures as a means of killing off any viable seeds in the compost?

James

Yes

 

[JamezF]

With dinner tonight we ate the last of our fresh cherry tomatoes. I'm genuinely amazed that they've lasted this long. I harvested them some weeks back when they were green and we've just been picking the ripe ones out to eat ever since.

James

 

[JamezF]

Weirder and weirder, said Alice...

These are the pepper plants in the polytunnel, earlier today.

All looking a bit sorry for themselves. I'd have removed them already if I'd had time.

On the other hand, these are the plants in Frankenstein's greenhouse, also earlier today, whilst I was replacing the pane of glass that fell victim to Storm Darragh.

Obviously I'm going to leave them to see if they make it all the way through the Winter. It's hard to believe such a thing might be possible the way things have been this year, who knows? It is tempting to make a little frame so I can drape some fleece over the top of them to give a bit more protection from frost, I have to admit. I was going to line the greenhouse with bubblewrap this Autumn, but ran out of, well, everything, really.

James

 

[Penninetrader]

Time the shortest of commodities