What's going on in the Greenhouse

[johnny canoe]

I have started potting up wave Petunia seedlings. I have a few flats done but that doesn't really make much of a dent in the boring job. My Amaryllis bulbs are starting to but up their flower stalks. And my Castor bean seeds are sprouting.

 

[alp]

johnny: you've been working hard.. I'm ashamed to say that my petunia seedlings are much smaller than yours..

I can see 2 new stems in your amaryllises. I have 4 or 5 flower stems in my newly bought amaryllises. Can't wait to show them here.

 

[Beaus Mum]

You put me to shame Johnny looking fab

 

[alp]

Agree! BM. Going to watch a video about air layering. Tedious, but I must do it.

 

[johnny canoe]

Thanks

 

[alp]

Well, not exactly a gh, but the builder said, "I bet as soon as this lean to is finished, you will turn it into a greenhouse!"

Well, he's not wrong.

Got this shelf for free. Had to take it apart next to a busy road..
Got some cacti at the top, Some Galia melon sprouting, some agapanthus, and some lobelias

My dahlias - I thought I bought too many until someone said 66 were delivered.. SIXTY-SIX???

This one is at the brightest and hottest corner of the whole lean to

Perennial lobelias at the top, lilies, water melon and salad leaves.. inspiration from Logan!

This one is full of streptocarpuses

 

[johnny canoe]

Alp,
Your lean to looks great, healthy plants, tidy and clean. I definitely need to work at tidy and clean.

 

[alp]

johnny: I should have uploaded some before and after photos.. !

People would say - which slob lives here! LOL!

 

[alp]

johnny: There is a bloomer competition which you might win.. LOL!

Sunflowers... Would you like to join .?

 

[johnny canoe]

If I didn't have squirrels around I would join. I quit buying sunflower seeds because once the heads are full of seeds the beggars rip them to shreds. Also I just let a few select sunflowers grow up where the birds have dropped them, so I don't know what kind of flower they are but bird seed. lol

 

[alp]

Haha! You can just use your bird seeds. After all, I had one self-seeded last year and stupidly, I said to myself, "What a lovely rudbeckia!"

When it seeded, I was very red in the face! Or was it Rudbeckia??

 

[johnny canoe]

lol

 

[alp]

My salad leaves are doing very well

But Logan has already had her first helping.. Should have started earlier!

Dahlias are a delight to sow, with a polystyrene tray and some heat and light in the "greenhouse", they shot up in no time. Immediate gratification more or less.. unlike Cannas!

I scaled these a month ago and look what I have got.. but these are Asiatic lilies. The double lilies haven't been doing half as well and they are what I want, more than these..

 

[johnny canoe]

Alp, looking good there. May long weekend is when I'll direct sow some veggie seeds. Carrots, beets, spring onion and snow peas for my giant snails in my fish tanks.

Got a few more flats of petunias done yesterday. This morning I focused on Cannas, and Dahlias.

 

[alp]

johnny: Looking at yours, I realise that I have too mean! My seedlings are like pinheads.. Whilst yours are like miniature plants. I have one canna about 3 inches tall. The rest of the seeds are hovering between life and death! LOL! Keep up the good work.