Grow Your Own Magazine

Well it's been a while so here's what's been happening.
Bad news first ! Think I may lose my french beans to Sclerotinia - this is doubly annoying as they were beginning to produce beans all over the place. I have also lost several hundred cabbages to the pigeons - that'll teach me to be too fussy about weed control - tried to make the place look pterry but all I did was let the pigeons see them more clearly !!
Cucumbers are going bananas (if that's possible) The largest of the rows...

sewer rat

It looked more like a carrot shoot than anything, but the reason I know is definitely a good thing, since the Coriander shoots came through! They're similar but different, if that makes any sense. The leaves were thicker with reddish veins underneath (and two shoots to a seed – that’s value for money!)

I was right; my peas are like the Trojan army. Determinedly marching their way towards the sky, especially the pot noodle pea, which has a whole deep pot all to itself. The potted...

New_Bud

Last Lettuce are now out.

Will be putting all Calabrese out on the next relevant days. These are going into the allotment as they are long term crops.

zazen999

I've thinned out my potatoes, apparently they were too close. (First year at potatoes.) I've put in more rocket, radishes and bordeaux spinache. Lots of weeding, lots of chick weed!

I've put some toms plants (Tigerella and Olirose) under a mini poli tunnel on veg bed. They've ben on wondowsill with windows a little open for a while. A bit of a tester, not expecting too much. Will need to fix greenhouse roof, have a tidy up and put the rest in there.

More guineas. Thought...

Forget-me-Not

It had been a freezing winter and early spring here in the Pacific Northwest.

I went out early, but not as early in the year as my fellow gardeners. Many gardens were rich with winter vegetables but my plot lay dormant and waiting. I prepared my salad plot and planted lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets, of which only the beets and spinach came up. The following weeks unexpected snow and ice and freezing wind put a damper on my Southwestern spirit. I stayed as warm as I could indoors....

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