Grow Your Own Magazine

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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They say it's gonna rain tomorrow
Well, since last I wrote, I have grubbed and rolled my plot, planted half my red onions, sown half a kilometre of Kelvedon Wonder peas, half a kilometre of Witkiem Manita Broad Beans, assembled my Ferguson potato planter (just need to knock up a couple of seats), sown some spinach (x 324) and some more sprouts.
My cukes and courgettes have started to germinate today. The tunnel is beginning to green up and look a bit healthier, the strawbs in baskets...

sewer rat

Sowed various things:
spaghetti squash x 3; chestnut squash x 3; spinach; January King cabbage; Early Golden Acre cabbage; purple sprouting broccoli; borage x 8; nasturtium x 4; haricot longio x 4; red sunflowers; cosmos and maybe one cornflower!

ChocClare

Sowed San Marzano tomatoes.

ChocClare