Water, Watch And Wait

Cucumbers Already

The Blur planted a couple of cucumber plants a few weeks ago, one of which is in greenhouse 2 the other outside. They're still very small, but to our surprise they already have tiny little cucumbers on, even the one outside. The Blur has been getting more and more interested in what were doing and has recently been trying to find herself little jobs to do (other than picking fallen apples off the carrots, swedes and onions,) so im pleased she can already see the results of her work. Knowing how fast cucumbers grow, its not going to be long before we can add them to our growing list of things we no longer need to buy.

Waiting

As I said before its now a case of watering and waiting. I'll confess I have now looked in our mushroom boxes, and was a little disappointed not to find much happening, other than a few silvery looking weeds popping up. I know your not supposed to get the spores wet once they have emerged, so I am trying to think of a way to get water into the boxes without a watering can.

We now have an abundance of red tomatoes and they seem to be changing colour over night. Having sat in the greenhouse for ten minutes I decided to pick one off and let the Blur have a taste. Somewhat dubious she tried to bite the very least amount of skin off as she could until I told her to take a big bite. It all got eaten so I am assuming she enjoyed it.

Our pumpkins have gone mad and between them are threatening to take over the whole plot. But it looks like we'll have one pumpkin each by the time halloween comes around, if not two. Its amazing to see how much something can grow in a night.

The hardest thing to wait for by far is the chickens. We only have to wait another three to six days, but its feeling like a lifetime right now. We have paint for the coop, so that task should take our minds off the hens for at least ten minutes. Both John and I had the same thought this morning, in that the chicken man could ring today, and we'll be off like a shot. But until then i'll be bouncing up and down in anticipation.