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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.