What I Did Today (Undercover)

[VirginVegGrower]

Sarz, are you putting your spuds direct or in bags in there? I've just bought more and am running out of room. Don't know whether I should plant into beds - or bags again,

[VirginVegGrower]

According to Gatter & McKee (previously mentioned on this thread), a sowing list for the polytunnel in February:

Aubergines
Broad beans
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Celery
Chard
Coriander
Garlic
Kohlrabi
Lettuce
Peas
Peppers
Potatoes
Radishes
Rocket
Spinach
Spring onions
Strawberries
Sweet potatoes
Tomatoes
Turnips

I think that's probably based around the Midlands in terms of climate, it'll be slightly later if one is further north.

I think I can tick off most of the ones we like from that list, I just need to get my early spuds in and I haven't done any spring onions or celery yet.

Crikey oh Riley, way too cold in my poly in the midlands for some of those! Guess what book I picked up this morning too? SNAP!

[SarzWix]

According to Gatter & McKee (previously mentioned on this thread), a sowing list for the polytunnel in February:

Aubergines
Broad beans
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Celery
Chard
Coriander
Garlic
Kohlrabi
Lettuce
Peas
Peppers
Potatoes
Radishes
Rocket
Spinach
Spring onions
Strawberries
Sweet potatoes
Tomatoes
Turnips

I think that's probably based around the Midlands in terms of climate, it'll be slightly later if one is further north.

I think I can tick off most of the ones we like from that list, I just need to get my early spuds in and I haven't done any spring onions or celery yet.

[Bren In Pots]

Sown a couple of little pots with spring onions seeds just a sprinkle in each.

[redser]

Does anyone have plans to sow early peas for the tunnel/greenhouse? If so, when are you going to sow them?

I chitted Oregon Sugar Pod and Hurst Greenshaft about three weeks ago. I have a full block of root trainers of each (32) on the go. The shoots are about 4-6 inches high. Going to wait a little longer to let the root trainers do their air-pruning thing a bit more and then plant them in the ground hopefully later this week.

[Darwin.]

Today I left the greenhouse and polytynnel open all fat to dry out and that's all I intended doing. I got bored around 4 so went out for an hour and a half to weed two bays of the polytunnel.

[Darwin.]

I'm just in from the greenhouse now, I spent about an hour and a half out there. I didn't like where my composter was, the run off from it was seeping into the polytunnel, so I moved it. It's below the polytunnel now. I got two full wheelbarrows of compost from it (I was delighted with that) and mixed it through the soil in the greenhouse, I mixed some bags of farmyard manure and some perlite in too. It's all mixed up now but it's 0 C here today and snowing lightly so I decided against planting anything out.

[SarzWix]

... you don't really want to do laundry, do you

Wanting to have some clean socks and undies is overriding my desire to ignore it and do something more fun instead

I've sown a couple of cell-trays of peas, and a tray of mixed salad leaves

[Darwin.]

I sowed peas in a propogator and pots earlier in the week, they're in the garage in the window, I'll plant them out in a few weeks.

[VirginVegGrower]

Charmette and Hatif d'Annonay from RealSeeds, Sarz and you don't really want to do laundry, do you

[VirginVegGrower]

Can't remember what mine are...hang on and I'll have a look

[SarzWix]

Cool, I have some very early Oskar, might sow some as a distraction from the laundry mountain this afternoon...

[VirginVegGrower]

Does anyone have plans to sow early peas for the tunnel/greenhouse? If so, when are you going to sow them?

Did mine the other day, but I've sown into guttering first. They are up on my hanging shelf, but are destined for the poly when I pull the remaining celeriac out.

[SarzWix]

Does anyone have plans to sow early peas for the tunnel/greenhouse? If so, when are you going to sow them?

[VirginVegGrower]

Yesterdays what I did today was dig out most of the soil in the greehouse because it was sticky clay and full of long stringy white roots.

Today I'm getting new compost for it and planting out some beans that the bloke at the garden centre gave to my 1 year old for free.

Those roots sound like twitch. Clay is nutrient holding and could be mixed with your compost for growing. You need some soil to grow in.