It's May and everything has come on in leaps and bounds.

2 of my three tomatos have grown well. my dwarf beans are huge with leaves around the size of my hand and still climbing skywards. cucumbers are doing well as with my shallots.

Garlic. i found a realy nice sprouted garlic bulb in the local shop and for 12p couldnt go wrong so purchased it and now have 8 cloves growing in a growbag.

Garden has now been cut down. what once was a 6ft high jungle is now a well trimmed mat of grass and everything else. bindweed has grown back this year with more vigor and im not wanting too chemicaly eradicate this pest. i however decided too simple dig the whole garden, then start single digging and double digging for a good year or maybe two. this way i try too bring as much root too surface where it can be thrown into the incinerator ( metal bin ) if you guys and girls have any other ideas too remove the bindweed pest i have would be amazingly helpful.

Greenhouses:

now i would love a real quality glasshouse but these are way out of my price league and the youngsters round here would have a fieldday smashing panes of glass.
I had been looking at these plastic cover greenhouses and found one that will fit 5 growbags inside and for only £30GBP. it was a big choice and money could have been spent else where but i purchased said wendyhouse conversion and am very happy with its quality. lets hope its a good growing house.

other real life stuff:

so the jobfront is bad im fighting maybe 30-100 other for a single job and its becoming a joke. i sat down and had a real hard think. damn i can grow ilegal stuff and legal stuff so why not look for a job in a growing enviroment. so i started hunting for work in local grow centres and the likes. you cant exactly say you can grow anything but the knowledge from weedgrowing is a handy dandy tool and can be shifted too house and ornimental gardening too. hopefuly its will be on my side.

A word of warning on growbags. money = quality this is so true. yesterday i took a Named brand growbag and my £1 bargain bag. i split both bags and was stunned.
the best named bag was lush earth smelling soil mix held together nice when damp and broke up well. on the other hand my el cheapo bag was a mess, soil was a sweet smelling clay bound mess. when damp it would form cannon balls and would break down in large clumps no fine earth look at all at the very most 85% had been broken down the rest of soil had lumps of bark twigs and lumps of grey'ish red clay. so word of warning what you pay for is what you get myself am going to use this cheap stuff too bulk up the veg patch for water retention in soil.

product used:

durstons gardeners choice growbag ( £1gbp)
Gardman walk in greenhouse ( plastic £30gbp was £50)
off shelf bone meal/bloodmeal
homebrew rocket fuel tea ( nitrogen high green leaf brew)

Tamzi