MINI GREENHOUSE & A BLUSTERY DAY

Today has been a bit rainy and dull but now a wind has picked up.  I bought a mini-greenhouse yesterday where I have put my pots with young pumpkin, butternut squash, lettuce, sweet peppers, and assorted herbs, out of the dismal rain.  Rain is good but not to the point where plants start to drown in the rain-saturated soil, or mildew and botrytis can take a hold. 

Below, my new mini-greenhouse - it is very tiny, only about 2ft x 1ft x 5ft high (60cm x 30cm x 150cm high), yet there are four shelves.  It can hold quite a lot and, apparently, is an award winner.  Nice thing is if you don't have use for it all year long, you can pack it up and put it away in winter or even use it throughout winter and pack it up in warmer months.  Whatever works for you.

Strawberries, below, are coming on but they desperately need some sun.  The lawn is growing like crazy and too wet to mow.  At the side of the strawberries, I have tubs with mixed salad and radish, and also grow bags with my pumpkin and some cucumbers which my cat, Alfie, keeps trying to sit on - hence the lumpy wood and rock to act as a deterrent! 

Strawberry plants in grow bags