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Right now in the greenhouse I have some winter squash ripening on the vine. It’s a bit of a jungle in there as the vines of the squash and those of the various tomato plants are all wrapped round the greenhouse frame and there’s a bumper crop of tomatoes coming along nicely too. Both crops should be ready to pick in the weeks to come. 
This is the first time I’ve grown squash successfully, and I really wish, with Halloween coming up, I’d tried the more popular squash, the traditional pumpkin, again this year. Last time I tried to grow pumpkins in the ground outdoors, but after they reached flowering stage the slugs devoured them. This time I grew the green kabocha squash from seed in a large window box type planter and just made sure it was kept well watered and fed with seaweed fertiliser. Under the protection of the greenhouse it has thrived and taken over the space. The squashes are ready to harvest when the stem connecting it to the rest of the plant starts to wither and dry up. 
Transcript
00:00So one of the things, we haven't been in here in a while actually, one of the things I wanted
00:23to do today was just check up on the greenhouse here, this plastic greenhouse I put up earlier
00:31in the year and you can see here if I pull out a wee bit, there's a lot of vining going on here
00:39and there's tomatoes at the front all down here semi-protected from the weller outside and up
00:47along here tomatoes that were should have been potted on the bigger patch but weren't but they're
00:51still fruiting and then down here we have one of our squash, this is a green squash you can
01:00see there so all squashes and pumpkins behave in the same kind of way and I'm using this
01:07as a junk storage too at the moment but you can see there there's one big one and you know
01:16when these are ready because the stem here on it where it's held onto the rest of the
01:23plant will start to die in weather and that's not ready yet.
01:28Some people say it's happening as well, it's getting quite big in there so at this stage
01:32here's another one here you can see just hanging down.
01:37This has wound itself around the frame and I've just let it ramble and there's a few
01:44more of them too about smaller I'm not sure they'll make it before one that comes in but
01:50you can see how tall that's got it's got nearly up the top of the whole thing and that's just
01:58three plants there's two more in there, pulling loose back there, a smaller one.
02:04So something else looking we've got worse for wear here that should be ready to pull it now is the
02:09skillions this bed is it just dries out far too quickly so we're just going to pull these now
02:19there you go let me see and that's the first skillion that I've ever grown successfully uh
02:32how do I get my arm on now I think I kept mistaking them for weeds and pollen and everything out of here
02:43so there's three happy days there's more over there too all these them on the ground
02:47freshers are better I can chop them up now there's a mild onion smell off them um you can see here a lot
02:56of things get eaten in this wee tiny bed not all that survives it um I might use it for someone else
03:05maybe herbs next year like this is an erased hair bed because it's just not great for growing I do want
03:11to grow some vegetables I know what I want there on here so our vegetables I have grown at the moment
03:16our beetroot and I see how do we check on them actually so there's some here and some in the corner
03:28I've put some on here we have some kale
03:36Brussels sprouts and what is this one so
03:41bad when you can't read your own writing I have no idea what that is but or radish I think
03:53it might be something else oh who knows
03:59but that's all the edible stuff together I've always kept that together and then
04:03around here I also have some which we'll need padded up as well and
04:08I can't remember now where I put them here we are we have chard this is great a great winter crop very
04:16hearty here's radishes and here's spring onions
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