What I Did Today (Undercover)

[VirginVegGrower]

All onions up and hanging now. I need the space. Two melons in and climbing peas. I may try a butternut when spuds up and out.

[SarzWix]

Finished planting tomatoes and the F1/All-female cucumber plants in the greenhouse. Planted up some more pepper/chilli plants into 5l pots; that's as big as I go for chilli plants, any bigger and I find they forget to crop because they're too busy turning into triffids I only have half a dozen tomato plants, 3 butternut squashes and another Sigmadew cucumber waiting to go in the tunnel now, as soon as the calabrese vacates the space.

Peas are still cropping heavily, I think I've had about 3 kilos so far and more to come. Broad beans are just starting to swell, sweet peas are flowering like mad and the calabrese is FINALLY starting to form heads (just as we're eating salads...). The cabbages still look like a collection of leaves and nothing like a cabbage though, so they'll be turfed out over the weekend.

[VirginVegGrower]

Watered in the poly, having hoed off. Picked broadies. Thinned some carrots out. Fed and watered in the greenhouse. Picked basil tips and made pesto. Yum!

[SarzWix]

Pretty sure it was a lack of water issue causing my onions to bolt; it's much harder to give them a good watering than it is the tomato plants which have plastic bottle funnels directing water at the roots. Anyway, they're out now and 4 tomato plants, 2 cucumber plants and a grafted melon plant are in their place instead.

Peas are cropping heavily now, I have my first bunch of sweet peas from the tunnel on the kitchen table, the broad beans have pods and the calabrese is finally starting to form heads Just desperately, desperately need some rain now...

[VirginVegGrower]

Well, I used one last night. It had split so fingers crossed the others will have done the same. Size wasn't too bad (see pic- hope you don't get a bad neck!) Not as big as my outdoor grown ones last year. The the bed I have growing outside now doesn't look as good as last year either but they still look very healthy and will stay there for a while yet.

Jeez Scarlet - I wish mine on the lotty don't look as good as last year either, although I got rust quite badly last year - well not me, the garlic! At least I can leave them in to die back naturally. I needed the poly space for toms. It was more a bad timing issue for me.

[Scarlet]

Not growing mine in a tunnel again. It just looked like a thick leek. Not sure it split. If it did, it still stayed tiny. Some had a curve to the bottom, but no decent size.

Well, I used one last night. It had split so fingers crossed the others will have done the same. Size wasn't too bad (see pic- hope you don't get a bad neck!) Not as big as my outdoor grown ones last year. The the bed I have growing outside now doesn't look as good as last year either but they still look very healthy and will stay there for a while yet.

[VirginVegGrower]

Here's a pic of my Radar hanging in the poly.
There are still some growing

[redser]

Got the last of my onions out over the last few days. I dug one garlic and wasn't impressed. They are still plenty green so I'm going to leave them in the hope they come good. Glad to have onions up, managed to fit in 15 sweet peppers in their place

[VirginVegGrower]

My onions are all coming out this afternoon because they're starting to bolt. None of them have gotten to a decent size really, they're going to be a pain to use. On the plus side, it'll give me room to get more tomatoes in

Bolting in the poly? Now mine have done the opposite. Great in the poly, but bolted on the allotment. Anyway, deading time - get those toms in clouds and silver linings!

[SarzWix]

My onions are all coming out this afternoon because they're starting to bolt. None of them have gotten to a decent size really, they're going to be a pain to use. On the plus side, it'll give me room to get more tomatoes in

[VirginVegGrower]

That's what've done today, giant garlic too - just couldn't wait any longer

Not growing mine in a tunnel again. It just looked like a thick leek. Not sure it split. If it did, it still stayed tiny. Some had a curve to the bottom, but no decent size.

[VirginVegGrower]

Nope. Just rainwater collection from shed rooves etc. But one of my butts split over winter, and the drain-pipe which feeds the big tank became disconnected from the gutter somehow so it wasn't refilling, and now poof! it's all gone

Crikey that's not good. We only have one tap between 25, which I am now thankful for. Although poly and greenhouse at home, where we have a tap too.

[SarzWix]

No tap on your site?

Nope. Just rainwater collection from shed rooves etc. But one of my butts split over winter, and the drain-pipe which feeds the big tank became disconnected from the gutter somehow so it wasn't refilling, and now poof! it's all gone

[Scarlet]

Pulled the remaining garlic - got so sick of waiting

That's what've done today, giant garlic too - just couldn't wait any longer

[VirginVegGrower]

I have almost completely run out of water About 50l left in the big tank and that's it. Panic is setting in because it takes nearly 100l to do a full water of the tunnel and greenhouse. Seriously considering asking the householders adjacent to my plot if they'll sell me 1000l of water to refill the tank...

No tap on your site?