Greenhouse was the best idea ever

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The greenhouse quite rapidly turned into a jungle. After the Plant and seed exchange day I organised in my gallery I was left with hundreds of tomato plants. It took two waterings a day to keep everything alive, next summer bigger pots and less plants…
My mushroom farm did nothing for a while apart from the odd one growing and spawning which made me nervous so I put all the bags out end of summer and my gosh! They loved it. In two weeks I harvested a few kilos of Oyster mushrooms and Lions mane, dried them and turned into a mushroom powder to add in stews and gravy.
Even with tonnes of tomatoes we have used them up, they are so versatile in soups and sauces. One kind of tomato, Dzalia, got infected with rot as soon as it ripened so I picked all the green ones and made green tomato chutney for the first time, lovely!
Plenty of chillies to, we have a lot in the freezer but used a lot as well.
All in all a success! Now the mushrooms are left with a couple of grape plants and loads of strawberry plants and suddenly it’s a very nice place to hang out in on windy cold days.