Supermarket ginger in a 20 litre plant pot tub this time last year .
It grew to about three foot tall and had increased in size from 1& 1/2 inches with growing nodes to about five inches long and boy was it different to the half dried stuff you get in the shops . Turned three big pieces into homemade crystalised ginger.
With luck I have also managed to grow Pink Lady apple seeds in my bottomless seed tubes after a weeks drying on the side board , then stratifying them in the fridge for a couple of months and a night in the freezer at minus 21 oC .
Either they are just poking their heads out or it's weeds .
I often grow strawberries in the greenhouse using the automatic irrigation system to water everything as the crop starts early and finished late .. at present because of Alison doing some bonsai work in the green house the four 20 litre tubs of home grown Cambridgeshire favourites grown from self harvested seeds were put outside with the sack barrow & there's plenty of berries on them .
I've also got some Kashmiri Cypress, Giant Redwoods & Larch seeds in the greenhouse ..the cypress have germinated well …. three out of four seeds .
I'm not sure how the rest are doing , come winter they will get put outside .
I started collecting the cones /seed two years ago when visiting Blarney castle , learnt how to get the seed ready for growing etc .
Next year I hope to have a greater tree seed crop collection that we have collected ourselves to grow our own bonsai trees from seed .
Slugs devoured a lot of stuff as it emerged in the beds , as it was too cold to use Nemaslug and I tried to be sparing with slug pellets as our dog is almost addicted to them to the extent of jumping 3 foot up on to the raised beds to find & eat them.
So I've used the glasshouse and the water misting set up to grow new peas, beans & lettuce quickly to replace what's been lost .
I've also grown tubes of different colours of long trailing lobelia & still have a dozen of so tubes of white that are not quite ready... so I can have red white and blue in our six hanging baskets to annoy my nationalist Welsh neighbours
I've also got beetroot & kohlrabi growing in tubes in the glasshouse due to the slug fest that been held in the garden , in a few days they should be OK to put out in the beds
Good news is our Nemaslug nemaodes arrived late this afternoon , just as we were about to go out . They will get placed tomorrow and then I'll do a second dose in six week time .