Grow Your Own Magazine

What veg are you growing this year, so I listed it all for her and here it is. Some are in the ground, some are in the tunnel, but this is only what has been put in to date
Onions - Sturon- 7500
Red Onions -7500
Potatoes - Lady Christl - 25kg seed tubers
Potatoes - Charlotte - 25kg seed tubers
Potatoes - Red Duke of York - 20kg seed tubers
J/Artichokes - Gerard - 25kg tubers
Cabbage - Minicole - 960
Cabbage - Hispi - 920
Cabbage - Primo...

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yippee I can't believe it getting so excited over a vegetable

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..(continued ...) No, next year I think I'll make things a little easier for myself. No potatoes, no growing from seed and nothing which needs staking. And the tubs which are now empty (where the bulbs were) will stay empty - I have far too many things in containers and it takes me nearly an hour each evening to water them all. And you can't not do it, their lives depend on you! Its a big responsibility this gardening lark.

Marthaclematis

Everything is growing fast now and its hard to keep up. Since last time: the daffs are over and the ones in pots have been planted at the back under the tree (we haven't cut the greens off yet, its not six weeks since the last flower). Wood pidgeons are taking great delight in pecking at the branches of the plum tree. I 'ground' some poppy seeds in the ground at back with my foot - I brought a seed head back from Carcassonne in France and it an experiment to see if they come up. The lawn needs...

Marthaclematis

I can now categorically state that it was worth starting some vegetables off early this year.

I sowed a few brassicas and lettuce at the end of January and into February and they have come to fruition as expected - we've had a couple of cabbages and a couple of cauliflowers and lettuce by the bucket-load!

As the brassicas have now been harvested I can use the containers they grew in for the next generation of crops - some dwarf runner beans, for example.
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