Living in the midlands and wondering what you're doing now!!

katholicos

I picked my first edibles for tea....mixed salad leaves....:j

soul619

katholicos wrote: »

Took some photies this evening of my veggie growing progress so far, hopefully you can see the pics by clicking this link...

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nice pictures

katholicos

I've spent a while in the garden today and have noticed that there are berries forming on my two cheap redcurrant/blackcurrant bushes! I bought them from Focus last week, i think it was. This excites me :happy:

thifty

Hi everyone!
I am so glad of this rain, have been up to allotment nearly every night watering my new seedlings and brassica plants. Have done 3 hanging baskets, 1 of flowers and 2 with toms and basil in. Never done toms in basket before so we shall see if they tumble or not!
Courgettes, sweetcorn and squah plants are getting bigger but bit too small to plant out yet.
katholicos I too have been happy munching on salad and radishes but the next ones I sowed are not ready yet so I have sowed a tray at home to transplant. I think I am too greedy but then I am on slimming world so am munching greens like a goat!

I have 1 bean seed through (runner) and no french ones yet. How is everyine else doing?
Happy gardening
Thifty

tootallulah

Hi Everyone, thank goodness for the rain everything looks fresh this morning and the sun is shining. Everything is growing great guns. If any one is in Newark and wants tomato plants p.m me I have loads of Romano and Gardeners Delight, too many for me. Now I need to sort out my hanigng baskets..................Just eaten four strawberries, those Lidl plants are great.

rosy798

Just picked a bunch of radish for tea tonight, then sat and ate them all!! Well plenty more.
Peas looking good, started climbing now, they were a bit thick at first didnt know what to do
Broad beans about 7 inches tall, have put supports in now
Potatoes need earthing up again,
Onions had a bit of mishap in one place when OH mowed 'em rest doing fine
Cabbage just starting to form the hearts
Parsnips, just came through YAY
Tomatoes are out in ground now with flowers
Tumbling toms in baskets flowers just starting
Lettuce what can I say delicious
Leeks in trays waiting to go into the new raised bed
Herbs all good but coriander stalks have turned pink, is that right?
Runner and french beans all out doing great
Courgettes look like trifids
Carrots in big tubs are tiny but you can see they are carrots
Beetroot through will need thining soon
Spring onion starting to look right instaed of bits of grass
Big gardening weekend coming up, so hope everyone enjoys it, and the sun shines.

elsien

Ooh aren't you good. I'm jealous at the amount you're growing. I have to container garden for veg, so a bit limited for space.
I'm gazing sadly at my snapdragons wondering why the big healthy looking ones have turned up their toes overnight, having been tended with loving care from seed.:(
On the positive side, my salad leaves are very tasty and are taking over the world. Salad every night for a week, methinks.

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After a couple of weeks of intense panic as to how I'd plant all my seedlings without having to learn levitation to get from door of the house to gate.., I was given the keys to an allotment a couple of days ago.

I am absolutely ecstatic but wondering if I am sane. Who can be ecstatic after grubbing around in dirt for most of the day looking for glass and stones lol? Still it is MY dirt/stones/glass lol. Hopefully a more edible crop will be started tomorrow or the weekend.

heynonnynonny

Congrats on getting your allotment how wonderful!!

benjismum

I'm in South Derbyshire Not really much to do in my garden at the moment unfortunately. No lawn to mow, no weeds in the border :j everything's coming along nicely, just deadheading when necessary. Last week I repotted my tomatoes (a free packet of seeds from Good Food magazine last year ) There's 23 plants, each about 6 inches tall. I'm also growing lettuce and spring onions. Hopefully when we move house (currently for sale) I'll have a larger garden where I can get a proper greenhouse instead of one of those flimsy plastic things and really get some veggies growing!