The highs and lows of growing your own dinner 2015

Dizzy_Ditzy

Home grown purple sprouting brocolli with my roast lamb dinner tonight :j :j

zafiro1984

First day without rain since last Wednesday - a bit soggy underfoot.
Onions in 75 sets Red Arrow
3 apple trees planted - at last
No sign of anything germinating yet, but I'm a bit impatien
3 rhubarb split into a total of nine, dug a trench and going to fill it with muck and replant.

All family came yesterday so did nothing except sit around and talk, a lovely change from the usual round of work.

Jazee

Only one pea plant surviving. Broad beans all in flower. Strawberries sorted out but I think they've come to the end of their useful life. Seedlings in house and greenhouse watered, and I've planted about 100 marigold seeds (thanks for another forumite for those). Also grass cut back and front.

zafiro1984

Queen of Cheap:- did your carrots survive that you planted a while ago? I thought I'd ask because I want to sow mine but there was yet another frost last night and I don't know if it's still too soon.

Jazee

Veg patch looking good. This is the new one that took me weeks to dig. Nothing in it yet but no weeds either and its fine soil now.

Will be planting some more beetroot today, putting net over some things and probably planting more peas amongst other things. Such a lovely day, can't wait to get outside.

Dizzy_Ditzy

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Queen of Cheap:- did your carrots survive that you planted a while ago? I thought I'd ask because I want to sow mine but there was yet another frost last night and I don't know if it's still too soon.

They are looking good- but I stuck 'em in pots to avoid the frost then I'll plant them out straight from the pots I did sow some seed outdoors today though :cool:

Jazee

Planted cabbage, broccoli, more peas and radish today. The shallots finally look as though they're doing something too. Went to buy more canes and bits.

tootallulah

I planted out lupins, hollyhocks and delphiniums, I think my garden is sheltered enough for them to survive and if there is a frost forecast I can cover them up. I am away for a few days so will leave my peas and beans until I am back they are all growing great guns in the greenhouse and will need hardening off for a few days next week before they go out for the summer.

Today was the first day of a cup of coffee in the garden - bliss.

The tomatoes are still very spindly but no doubt they will sort themselves out over the next few days.

Narc0lepsy

Gosh some of your broad beans are doing well everyone, but I didn't put mine in that long ago as I didn't get organised enough last autumn.
Aubergines and some tomato seedlings just come up this weekend. The Ald1 plug plants are doing well. Having put mange tout all over the place yesterday, I was out of large containers today so put some sugar snap peas straight outside as it was so warm; they'd been soaking for a couple of days. I now have loads of beans soaking; sowed some today in an old freezer drawer lined with bubble wrap. My stepdad always used to do sweet peas in a pond basket lined with bubble wrap; you fold the wrap over like a tent then when they are up you fold it back - when they are ready to plant out you just lift them up in the wrap. When you put it on the ground they all separate easily. Much better than tapping out pots or prising out of polystyrene I find.

Hoping for good weather this week as I'm not at work.

Scottish_Mike

Yesterday was lovely and today's looking good too. Got the bed for my earlies (Kestrel and Rocket) so they're going in today (never dug potato trenches before - exciting!) and then I'll be working on an adjacent bed for the rest of the spuds.

I also have about 6 Leylandii roots to dig up to get my compost area started, and I have two other trees to cut down, but I'm rapidly running out of space!