March 26, 2008 at 4:33 pm
· Filed under Tomatoes ·Tagged Allotment, Gardening
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).
The Plum seeds started coming through Sunday - the seeds were good/newish. 
Sungold (these were old seeds – but my favourite as so sweet)
Gardeners delight (these are old seeds – I sowed quite a few)
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.
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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March 25, 2008 at 4:02 pm
· Filed under Brocolli ·Tagged Allotment, Gardening
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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March 21, 2008 at 12:25 pm
· Filed under Onions ·Tagged Allotment
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.
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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March 19, 2008 at 12:32 pm
· Filed under Books ·Tagged Allotment, Allotments, Gardening
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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March 18, 2008 at 9:36 pm
· Filed under Broad beans ·Tagged Allotment, Allotments, Garden
Sowed these Broad bean seeds (saved from last years crop) in October 2007.
They were the Aquadulce Claudia variety.
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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March 18, 2008 at 8:09 pm
· Filed under Garlic ·Tagged Allotment, Allotments, Gardening, Garlic
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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March 17, 2008 at 8:28 pm
· Filed under Brocolli ·Tagged Allotments, Gardening
what does this taste like -thinking of growing
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March 16, 2008 at 8:17 pm
· Filed under Carrots ·Tagged Allotment, Allotments, Gardening
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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March 16, 2008 at 7:51 pm
· Filed under Lettuce ·Tagged Allotment, Allotments
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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March 16, 2008 at 6:48 am
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged 1st day blogging
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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