Grow Your Own Magazine

I'm not fussed about sun, but my tomatoes want some, bless 'em.

March was so wet and cold they could really do with a boost.

Anyway, all is well in greenhouse-land with potatoes, shallots, cabbages, cauliflowers, lettuces and carrots all growing well in their final containers. They need to go outside but I am waiting for the current cold spell to pass so they're not too shocked. I also need to get the fleece out to protect the brassicas from pigeons.

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Cutecumber

Wow, I didn't know we could do this. So a blog is what? A sort of diary that the whole world can read? Not that that matters, my only reason for keeping a diary secret is so no-one would know how boring I was.

bluemoon

Sowed: 3 onion [3c] and 3 lettuce [3y].

No new germination to report.

zazen999

.. all that I wrote yesterday must have caused a bad omen. Does anyone ever think that Gardening is more trouble than it's worth?

When I got home from work yesterday, I thought I'd go take a peek in the greenhouse to see if all was well as I'd been writing about all the nice green progress in there. What did I find?

I found that the frost from the night before had caused havoc. The grapevines were now droopy brown messes. Some tomatoes, including my most advanced...

SMS6

Woke up to a hard frost this morning (good grief, this is supposed to be APRIL) and when I got home from work, discovered that many of the tomatoes had succumbed. Boo, hiss!

So sowed lots of things this evening: a tray of delphiniums and the little lantern flowers that Di gave me; more tomatoes: garden pearl; gardener's delight; bloody butcher; Paul Robeson; moneymaker; red pear vine; beetroot bolthardy; yellow beetroot; dill and maybe one summer savory - opened the packet and couldn't...

ChocClare