Grow Your Own Magazine

Another beautiful day. Planted 2 x Vales Emerald potatoes in a bucket in the greenhouse.

Forgot to note yesterday that I sowed some more parsnips, after the dismal results of the first sowing, and also some savoy cabbage.

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My Cold frames - I'm thinking of replacing the plastic ones with stronger structures as I find I'm having to constantly renew them. The zips always seem to go first and a cold frame that won't close is useless

Leeks, Celery and the replacement sweetcorn plants

Catch crop of baby lettuce

Brussels growing nicely - this is a first for me as last year I couldn't keep them going

My next project - using the frame from a plastic coldframe I plan...

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Lets see what else we may have growing nicely already.

A few early lettuce

Peas already with flower

Carrots

Radish & Beet

Baby lettuce - so sweet

and a lonely Courgette that I started on damp paper.

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well no garden is complete without one surely

Because we rent we decided that fruit trees would have to be dwarf varieties in pots but we never really had any results that way so we bit the bullet and planted them along the side of the house. We have a Plum, an Apple, an Apricot, a Cherry ( in blossom for the first time) and a Pear (just waking up). There are also soft fruits, the gooseberry and strawberries as shown before and if you look close at the veg plot pics you may spot...

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... some of the contents. If you look closely you can see some of the peppers that were hit by the frost. They were showing some signs of recovery but finally decided to replace them with new plants as I had some later swn ones.

My black pot of carrots are doing well and tomatoes are at various stages of health and growth.

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