Sowing Tomatoes

March 26, 2008 at 4:33 pm · Filed under Tomatoes ·Tagged ,

Sowed on Good Friday 21st March 2008-(ignore the date tag on the photos -I haven’t updated the date on my camera) in 4 little pots and placed in an airing cupboard- 

the following 3 pots germinated by Tuesday 25th March.

These are :

Gardeners delight cherry (brown round pot)

Incas Plum (black sqaure pot)

Sungold cherry (these are amazingly sweet)(orange round pot).

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The Plum seeds started coming through Sunday – the seeds were good/newish. plum-4-days-old-2503.jpg

Sungold (these were old seeds – but my favourite as so sweet)

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Gardeners delight (these are old seeds – I sowed quite a few)

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 Moneymaker (old seeds). These were the slowest to germinate which was surprising as I know these are quite a well known easy variety to grow.

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I’ve put these pots in the windowsill in the kitchen(which is south facing) – there isn’t much sun at the moment so I think they’ll be ok there. 

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25th March 08 -Purple Sprouting brocolli

March 25, 2008 at 4:02 pm · Filed under Brocolli ·Tagged ,

This is supposed to be very tasty – however it has a very long growing season – usually sown April-July and harvested in January-March the following year. Which is why it’s not usually sold in supermarkets.

They are very hardy – which is why the plants survive the winter- and there won’t be as many pest problems – as the time these will be ready for harvest will be too cold for white catapillers etc. 

The only thing is these plants need alot of space – but this isn’t too much of a problem if grown on the allotment- I’m definately growing these as we eat loads of normal green brocolli/calabrese in our house -and this is supposed to be tastier.

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Onions

March 21, 2008 at 12:25 pm · Filed under Onions ·Tagged

This year I’ve planted some standard white/yellow onions (Sturon) around mid Feb and Red onions (Karran) a week after the Sturon.

The two beds below with floorboards around them are where I have planted the onions.

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I’ve also got a few shollots in the beds – which I haven’t grown before. 

Last year I planted the onions later and I feel with all the rain in the summer months -they didn’t get a chance to develop properly and rotted.

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The Kitchen gardener – New book

March 19, 2008 at 12:32 pm · Filed under Books ·Tagged , ,

We had some ‘book sellers’ at work today – who were selling the new book by A.Titchmarsh called ‘The Kitchen Gardener’ at 1/2 price.

Bought the last copy – can’t wait to have a read.

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Broad Beans

March 18, 2008 at 9:36 pm · Filed under Broad beans ·Tagged , ,

Sowed these Broad bean seeds (saved from last years crop) in October 2007.

They were the Aquadulce Claudia variety.

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Last years crop were better -I think these aren’t as good because these are from the seeds I saved ??

The section to the left of my BB’s is my father in laws part- he’s been growing veg for years, as you can tell from the way he’s dug his plot.

 Right-I’m off.

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Garlic so far

March 18, 2008 at 8:09 pm · Filed under Garlic ·Tagged , , ,

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YEAH!! I did it – finally managed to upload a photo with the right dimensions – it’s coming together slowly.

 Anyway -This is my Garlic – I planted the cloves around Novemeber 2007.

As you can see there are weeds growing around – I haven’t had the time to weed around the garlic,  but they aren’t suffering so will leave it for now.

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Purple sprouting brocolli

March 17, 2008 at 8:28 pm · Filed under Brocolli ·Tagged ,

what does this taste like -thinking of growing

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Carrots

March 16, 2008 at 8:17 pm · Filed under Carrots ·Tagged , ,

I really want to grow carrots this year because we (husband and 3 children) eat so many. Carrots are the only vegtable my 4 year old will eat (only eats them raw) so I’m going to try again. Normally when I’ve grown them they’ve been about 3 inches long and forked.

So today I (or the children)  put a few seeds into a 10 inch deep pot and in the middle of the pot we put a bottomless plastic cup (filled with compost) and put a few seeds in that too – hopefully these ones will be longer.

Couldn’t stay out for too long though because it was cold – yesterday was so nice compared.

Back to work tomorrow -so no more gardening till next weekend.

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Lettuce transplated in Allotment Saturday 15th March

March 16, 2008 at 7:51 pm · Filed under Lettuce ·Tagged ,

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This is the lettuce (some iceburg type called Great Lakes) that I grew 2-3 weeks ago.

 I didn’t do too many seeds- as I want to do a little every few weeks so we have a continuous supply, rather then loads in one go.

Below is where I transplanted these baby lettuce plants in the allotment -they’re so small. I’m planning to plant more lettuce here in a few weeks.

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1st day blogging

March 16, 2008 at 6:48 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged

Saturday 15th March  

I’ve seen a few of these blogs about peoples experiences growing their own fruit and vegtables – and think it’s great – which is why I thought I’d have a go.

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