Tag: green fingers

• Polytunnel Update! [+VIDEO]

  It’s been almost a month since my last polytunnel post, when I planted out the tomatoes with string supports. Everything is growing well, the tomatoes are loving their support system and have lots of flowers and fruits. I keep the polytunnel door open permanently to prevent blight even though it’s quite cool. I also feed…

  Katrina

  07/08/2017

  Fruit, Polytunnel, Summer

  Allotment, blog, english, garden, gardening, green fingers, greenhouse, grow your own, grow your own food, growing, kitchen garden, nottingham, Polytunnel, tomato

• Flower Friday – Helianthus annuus, ‘Autumn Beauty’ Sunflower

  It’s my first year growing sunflowers and they’ve just begun to bloom! I can’t get over the firey red tones that gradient to beautiful shades of orange and yellow 💛 I’ll most definitely be growing these again. 🌻

  Katrina

  04/08/2017

  Flowers

  Allotment, flower, Flowers, garden, gardening, green fingers, grow your own, nature, nottingham, sunflower

• Greenhouse Update (with video!) 

  The small greenhouse is becoming very crowded! Only thing is, I still have even more (yes, I probably over did it a little..) pepper and tomato plants growing at home, eager to be moved into the new polytunnel. Fingers crossed it will *finally* go up this weekend – that is IF the weather holds out.

  Katrina

  25/05/2016

  Polytunnel, Spring

  Allotment, courgette, food, garden, green fingers, greenhouse, grow your own food, growing, kitchen garden, organic, progress

• Undercover

  Last Friday – Good Friday in fact was such a gorgeous day to be on the allotment. The first day of the year to be comfortably wearing shorts (YES i know!) and the perfect day to put up my mini greenhouse..or so I thought. Over the Easter weekend rather windy storm – ‘Katie’ they called it…

  Katrina

  01/04/2016

  Polytunnel

  Allotment, garden, green fingers, greenhouse, grow your own, growing, progress