Hello Diggers I've only just discovered this thread. Great idea Tinpot! For a small town garden I'm cramming in loads more food produce this year too. Having to be inventive with space. Courgettes already in, second lot coming through in seed trays. French beans and mangetout just showing their heads. Spinach to be pricked out today, lettuce just showing. Tomatoes went in 2 days ago. Potatoes chitting currently. Annual flowers seed of sweet peas, stock, cosmos and snap dragon coming through to attract pollinators. Window box of night scented stock sown. Think that's it.... mind you, I didn't go on late night slug patrol last night so it may have all been eaten by the time I have a second coffee and get out there!
That sound like a whole plethora of foodstuffs you’ve got planned there. I’m still waiting for my seed potatoes and onion sets to do something...
Hopefully plant some carrot seeds tomorrow with my kids. I’m using washed meat trays with holes punched in them as the council isn’t collecting plastic waste at the moment(!)
I've not sown as many flower seeds this year and some I did have failed, so will be planting some decorative veg dotted about in the flower borders. Rainbow chard looks great as do frilly and coloured lettuce. Also planting clmbing beans instead of sweet peas to climb the trellis in the front - have some with purple flowers, others with red or white.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
The cucumbers and tomatoes have been potted on. The carrots are nearly ready to go in. The early potatoes in the un heated greenhouse have just appeared above ground. The spring onions aren't doing much just sitting there. The little jem lettuce is ready to pick. Haven't planted any french beans as have run out of pots, so they will have to go straight into the ground.( hope they work better than last year, but it is new seed) And the mini Aubergine dont look to have done anything.😅
Thanks Tinpot I'm growing enough for other people too as I've got a smallish town garden but I'm a gardener for a living... that is i was until all this but I'm growing food for my customers as they can't get any veg for their gardens. Elderly customers and it was this or teach them how to use the Internet..... see why I chose to grow them myself! Been very warm here so I'm going to give a progress report after a day out there
All my tatties are now in, Swift, Maris Peer, Maris Piper. I already had garlic in since Christmas Eve and it is growing well now.
This weekend I'm setting up our propagator for, toms, courgette, sweet corn, marrow, pumpkins, french beans. (Perhaps not all at once, it is big but not that big!)
Soil is warmed up here now, so work next week will be to prepare the beds for sowing parsnips and carrots, also need to start getting onion sets in.
@Tinpot have your tatties not chitted? Light airy place, should be done in 2 weeks. I use an unheated utility room, put them in a box close to the window.
Tomatoes are ready to go from 3 inch pots to 6 inch pots. I will have some in the greenhouse, but I am also planting some into the ground in the polytunnel. The kale that I put in there has run up to flower, so that idea didn't yield much. I'm just eyeing up moving the manure onto the potato patch. I let a neighbour take a couple of barrowloads, we were dancing around each other as I undid the gates and then stood well back. The onion seedlings look like they need to get out in to the sunshine more.
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plethora of foodstuffs you’ve got planned there. I’m still waiting for my seed potatoes and onion sets to do something...
Hopefully plant some carrot seeds tomorrow with my kids. I’m using washed meat trays with holes punched in them as the council isn’t collecting plastic waste at the moment(!)
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I'm growing enough for other people too as I've got a smallish town garden but I'm a gardener for a living... that is i was until all this but I'm growing food for my customers as they can't get any veg for their gardens. Elderly customers and it was this or teach them how to use the Internet..... see why I chose to grow them myself!
Been very warm here so I'm going to give a progress report after a day out there
All my tatties are now in, Swift, Maris Peer, Maris Piper. I already had garlic in since Christmas Eve and it is growing well now.
This weekend I'm setting up our propagator for, toms, courgette, sweet corn, marrow, pumpkins, french beans. (Perhaps not all at once, it is big but not that big!)
Soil is warmed up here now, so work next week will be to prepare the beds for sowing parsnips and carrots, also need to start getting onion sets in.
@Tinpot have your tatties not chitted? Light airy place, should be done in 2 weeks. I use an unheated utility room, put them in a box close to the window.
Yes nearly two weeks and nothing. There in trays in the shed window so cool and light, but not direct sunlight.