Polytunnels and potatoes!

I gave a friend some chilli pepper plants back in Spring. She is fortunate enough to have a large polytunnel and I couldn't believe the difference in growth between her plants and mine so I decided to do a mini polytunnel using what I could find. The big one comes later! I am the least practical person known to my friends who are a little suprised at what I'm doing. I picked up a piece of tubing and a metal pipe. Cut the metal pipe in four and the tubing in two and together with an old plastic sheet had the makings of a polytunnel. Can you use a hacksaw to cut metal? Is that what they are for? It worked. Ok so it sags a little in the middle but it does the job.

Slight back ache yesterday after recovering from helping my neighbour get his potatoes in. I never imagined there were so many in his little plot. The so called small ones that we separated out for his pigs would have been sold as good new potatoes back home. He kindly gave me two large sacks of potatoes that will see us through winter and beyond and I was then fed the usual galician empanada (meat pie), roast lamb, salad and organic red wine. I then had to attend my organic beekeeping course which was in Gallego and for some strange reason (the wine?) I understood perfectly!