Ours is up and running but not yet as big as it will one day be. We're behind because of the unusually cold wet weather and I hope OH will make me an extra raised bed or two as it's already getting quite full.
Garlic and onions are showing good growth now after a slow start, broad beans are looking very bonny and covered with buzzing bumble bees, late autumn planted caulis are ready to eat and the later red and Savoy cabbages are looking good at last.
Have recently planted some oak leaf lettuce and curly kale plugs and have more Savoys to go out. Globe artichokes have loved the winter rains and are huge and the black and red currants have healthy new foliage starting. Purple gooseberry lagging behind and strawberries looking a bit ragged.
Sowed tomatoes and chilies a couple of days ago. Lots of other seeds to sow later - squashes, broccoli, purple sprouting, cavolo nero, salads, spring onions........
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Ours is up and running but not yet as big as it will one day be. We're behind because of the unusually cold wet weather and I hope OH will make me an extra raised bed or two as it's already getting quite full.
Garlic and onions are showing good growth now after a slow start, broad beans are looking very bonny and covered with buzzing bumble bees, late autumn planted caulis are ready to eat and the later red and Savoy cabbages are looking good at last.
Have recently planted some oak leaf lettuce and curly kale plugs and have more Savoys to go out. Globe artichokes have loved the winter rains and are huge and the black and red currants have healthy new foliage starting. Purple gooseberry lagging behind and strawberries looking a bit ragged.
Sowed tomatoes and chilies a couple of days ago. Lots of other seeds to sow later - squashes, broccoli, purple sprouting, cavolo nero, salads, spring onions........
Wow Obelixx you are on it ive only got garlic onions leeks beetroot so far i had best crack on !!!
Keep squashing greenfly on my rose leaf buds! Pleased to see my new rose is growing well. (Princess Anne) Have spent a bit of time trying to keep ivy from encroaching the beds too far and digging some of the dog violets from the beds. Have allowed it to colonise parts of the lawn. Looks nice but will likely have to reseed later. Planted out an old penstemon from a patio pot where it was looking unhappy. Think it might be Raven. Mowed lawn: automatically looks better.
took up lawn in my tiny front garden planted a cordyline in the middle and going to surround it with plants i have grown from seeds and cuttings to turn it into a bed of lovelyness
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Garlic and onions are showing good growth now after a slow start, broad beans are looking very bonny and covered with buzzing bumble bees, late autumn planted caulis are ready to eat and the later red and Savoy cabbages are looking good at last.
Have recently planted some oak leaf lettuce and curly kale plugs and have more Savoys to go out. Globe artichokes have loved the winter rains and are huge and the black and red currants have healthy new foliage starting. Purple gooseberry lagging behind and strawberries looking a bit ragged.
Sowed tomatoes and chilies a couple of days ago. Lots of other seeds to sow later - squashes, broccoli, purple sprouting, cavolo nero, salads, spring onions........
Have spent a bit of time trying to keep ivy from encroaching the beds too far and digging some of the dog violets from the beds. Have allowed it to colonise parts of the lawn. Looks nice but will likely have to reseed later.
Planted out an old penstemon from a patio pot where it was looking unhappy. Think it might be Raven.
Mowed lawn: automatically looks better.