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

heynonnynonny

ARGH just noticed my carrots starting to sprout:j:j:j

lutink

So jealous!

heynonnynonny

Had to come on here and say something before I burst with excitement, tis my first go. Only about 2mm, but got some good sunlight in the conservatory to help things along. Wheeee!!!

lutink

AHHHH, CONGRATS!
I have a pot in the garden under cover.....nothing as yet, i'm getting obsessive about checking too!
Radishes are going well though, about 2 cm tall now!

heynonnynonny

Have done another large pot of those carrots, they were the free dig in ones and also another mixed salad also from dig in. Just sown my courgette seeds, I hope I've put them in the right way :eek:

heynonnynonny

lutink wrote: »

AHHHH, CONGRATS!
I have a pot in the garden under cover.....nothing as yet, i'm getting obsessive about checking too!
Radishes are going well though, about 2 cm tall now!

Excellent news on the radishes, not really got any suitable cover in the garden yet to put out, so will stay in the conservatory now although am running out of shelf space in there!!

kippers

I'm in Leicestershire and i've got shallots, red onions sets and white onion sets in. I have broad beans just begining to come up in my cold frame planted in toilet rolls and i have today sown some radish and spring onion seeds. I planted my 1st eary potatoes yesterday. I planted some little lettuce plants (under glass panes) that i managed to find for 50p from a local garden centre

I have just pulled up the last of my leeks and parsnips and frozen them and i have dug up and re-planted some Jeruselum artichokes. My perpetual spinach that i overwintered is now putting on a growth spurt. I am waiting for my spring broccoli to produce and my spring cabbage is looking good. I need to get the last of my brussells and freeze. My winter lettuce in my coldframe is brill and we have been eating it all winter-treating it like a cut and come again lettuce.

I am growing celeriac in pots on my windowsills at home. Next week i will start sowing for my summer crops.

lutink

kippers wrote: »

I'm in Leicestershire and i've got shallots, red onions sets and white onion sets in. I have broad beans just begining to come up in my cold frame planted in toilet rolls and i have today sown some radish and spring onion seeds. I planted my 1st eary potatoes yesterday. I planted some little lettuce plants (under glass panes) that i managed to find for 50p from a local garden centre

I have just pulled up the last of my leeks and parsnips and frozen them and i have dug up and re-planted some Jeruselum artichokes. My perpetual spinach that i overwintered is now putting on a growth spurt. I am waiting for my spring broccoli to produce and my spring cabbage is looking good. I need to get the last of my brussells and freeze. My winter lettuce in my coldframe is brill and we have been eating it all winter-treating it like a cut and come again lettuce.

I am growing celeriac in pots on my windowsills at home. Next week i will start sowing for my summer crops.

wow you!!!!
i'll definatly put my spuds in then this weekend seems that everyone else has!!!

Megansmum

Hi,

I'm in Derby.
I have potatoes out and all the rest will go out this weekend weather permitting!

Strawberrys, gooseberry,blackberry,rasberry and blueberrys all out in raised bed.

Cucumbers and tomatoes coming on nicely on the windowsill.

This weekend hoping to plant out: carrots, parsnips, onion sets, and spring onions. Will sow indoors, brussels, cabbage and peas to plant out when mice won't bother with them!

Also going to sow indoors flower seeds and plant out some seeds, bulbs and plants - perennials and annuals to get some colour going in the garden for the first time ever!

Saw a massive bumblebee today - i must be going gardening crazy - i grinned when i saw it!:D Last year i'd have run away screaming!!:eek: :rotfl:

thifty

Hi I'm in Nottinghamshire, have a half allotment which I have had since last June. I too am being helped by my oracle of a father who once had 2 allotments on the same site so he knows it really well.
I have in already raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, garlic. jap onions, shallots, some purple sprouting broccoli which I am quite excited about as it is nearly ready, 2 rows of leeks, a few cabbages which I think want outing.
Today i put in broad beans straight into ground. I have early spuds (arron pilot) chitting still on windowsill, kale, cabbage, cauli, and red onion seeds on window sill and cape gooseberries and sweet pea seeds out in cold frame.
I plan on sowing tomato seeds and a few other things in pots this weekend but need to work out where on earth I am going to put them where my 2 year old won't stick her fingers in:rotfl:We moved house in december and the windowsills here are all quite low so she can reach things!
I think maybe the courgettes, radishes and carrots have been done a little early imho but then my site is really open and windy so I woudln't risk it yet, my spuds can wait another week too, it's just too wet underfoot.
Let's keep this thread going, nice to know what others in our region are growing and could perhaps share our fave garden centres/ suppliers?