Ohhhh my it's been a while!
I considered, as I was opening another packet of vegetable seeds and trying to stop my 5 year old from putting them into the birdfeeder, starting a diary of roughly what I planted and when. Of what the average weather conditions were like, which plants liked which treatments, what grew well in our garden and allotment and what didn't. Then I remembered I had a perfectly good blog here getting dusty!
Two years' worth of dust to be precise. Oops.
Allotment plants:
Vegetable seedlings coming on:
Two years' worth of dust to be precise. Oops.
Allotment plants:
- Rhubarb (freebie from another plot holder, unknown variety) - coming up slowly
- Onions - doing well
- Shallots - multiplying nicely
- Garlic (Printanor and Eden Rose) - has suddenly shot up in height, need to keep an eye out for flower spikes
- Potatoes (King Edwards maincrop and pink fir apple salad) - planted last weekend so no sign of them yet
- Strawberries (Flamenco and Malling Centenary) - planted from bare root stock three weeks ago, seem to be doing well enough
- Autumn-fruiting raspberries - five bare root canes doing nothing so far, four self-seeded from our neighbours plot have been transplanted to the raised bed and watered in
- Jostaberries - in full leaf and flowering well
- Redcurrants - still a little 'twiggy' but in leaf and flowering
- Blackcurrants - leggy but not old enough to prune yet. Good to see some new shoots coming up from the base
Vegetable seedlings coming on:
- Brussels sprouts - planted on Sunday, hopefully to be ready for Christmas
- Courgette: growing well, two large plants in pots, another two to be planted for 'succession'
- Cucamelon - planted on Sunday out of sheer curiosity. Need to give some thought to what they're going to grow 'up'
- Cucumber (Marketmore) - planted on Sunday in small peat pots
- Peas (Kelvedon Wonder dwarf ) - planted in loo roll tubes about 4 or 5 weeks ago, germinating at weird rates with some 4" tall, some just about sprouting!
- Purple sprouting broccoli - planted 5 weeks ago in modules, coming along well enough
- Spinach - coming along well, thinned out. Possibly a little leggy, we'll see how they stand up to watering. Will eventually be planted out in the garden for easy picking rather than the allotment
- Spaghetti squash - 4 planted on Sunday in medium sized pots
- Sweetcorn - planted in loo roll tubes, mostly about 2-3" tall, will eventually be interplanted with the spaghetti squash
Flowers:
- Honeywort - lovely strong looking seedlings thinned out and will be ready for planting out after the threat of frosts has passed
- Marigolds - will go to the allotment to plant between carrot rows once they've grown on a bit
- Nasturtiums - was given a free hanging basket kit with nasturtium seeds so I've planted it up and hopefully they'll sprout!
- Pinks - cuttings from mum's dianthus planter seem to be surviving for now
- Poppies - thinned out and strengthening up (very leggy though)
- Scabious - thinned out and strengthening up
- Sunflowers - planted a week ago, just for fun!
Weather - had a very dry Spring. Really need some rain but it all seems to be blowing over before it gets a chance to fall. Frosts forecast for this week.
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