I got a good weekend in the tunnel. I now have 34 out of 40 tomoto plants now in their permanent position. I just need to remember regular watering. I just find it hard to have the time every evening and a big lot at the weekend isn't good for them I feel. Courgettes coming along, we have the first few teeny ones showing. I have about 10 plants in buckets in the tunnel. Half of them will be going outside. We had a late frost last year on May 12th which killed all my squash. So I'm not risking it this year, anything delicate is staying inside until at least next weekend. I have courgettes to go out as well as pumpkins and squash. The pumpkins are in big buckets to stay in or large pots to be planted. But the squash is getting pot bound now and drying out very quickly.
I have a large passionflower in the tunnel and it is covered in blooms about to open. This will be the first time I will really see it flower so much. The tunnel was ignored for a few years so last year I had a huge amount of cutting back on it. However this year it has continued growing through the winter without getting overgrown so is a few months ahead of itself. Hopefully it attracts lots of bees. I also have a jasmine flowering in the tunnel that I only bought last year, again it has grown through the winter and is ahead of itself. I bought a cleamtis this weekend and have it in a pot in a corner by the seating area. Hopefully in a year or two we have a wonderful display of large purple flowers. My polytunnel is as much about a pretty living area as it is growing food.
Not doing so well are my chilli's and peppers and surprisingly the marigolds. The chilli's and peppers where sown inside in January. They germinated well and started to grow, and have stopped. Nothing at all since February, they are still teeny seedlings about an inch high with barely more than a seed leaf. I also sowed Marigolds in March in modules in the tunnel. They germinated quickly and they I think got hit by frost and just stopped all growth. I sowed more about 2 weeks ago, have had very poor germination and growing very slowly too.
Must get up, we have our first small head of lettuce to pick today