What has everyone planted/going to plant this weekend?

[HeyWayne]

I had every intention of planting out broad beans (Martock and Aquadulce), raspberries (Autumn Bliss and some others unidentified) and my peas (Stephens) yesterday, but you know how it is - you get distracted. So I built a pond, dug over a couple of beds, made a pseudo path, built another raised bed, sowed some meadow flower seeds which included - Shirley Poppy, Californian Poppy, Cornflower and Fairy Toadflax. Got myself sunburnt and I think the broad beans got sunburnt too (they didn't look to helathy at the end of the day).

All in all I spent about eight hours on the plot yesterday (and feeling it today).

Got plenty ready to go in the greenhouse - hopefully next weekend will be just as productive.

[areia]

was loverly weather yesterday i got burnt aw well showed i worked hard slapped on the ole aloe vera, planted out the last of my potatoes as my son mixed them up i havent a clue which ones are which, so i will pray and hope on that one, planted out some runner beans, for which one got munched by the rabbit grrrr. Went on the freecycle site requesting chicken wire, as fruit netting will not work against a determined rabbit.
Having lost lots of my seedlings due to me being over keen and growing very spindlely plant for which in turn got stem rot, ive had to start again, planted out 3 of my gardeners delights tommies in there pots, got all excited as i have strawberries growing yay, shoots are coming up on the teddy bear sunflowers couple more weeks and they will be ready for selling at the boot fair. wake up today and its bliming raining aggggggggggain least its still warm though

[Harry T]

What?? I have still no show from sown runners and French climbers.
But it is not yet the end of April.

[busylizzie]

So far (not just this weekend!) I've planted out :
red onions
white onions
garlic
spring onions
peas
carrots
beetroot
potatoes
various mixed salad leaves

Everything is doing quite nicely although the spring onions and carrots seem a bit slow.

In my conservatory, waiting to go out I've got umpteen tomato plants, a few courgettes, more spring onions.

This weekend I've sown some sweetcorn, cabbages, cauliflowers and more salad leaves.

I'm running out of space so I've got to decide what to do next - I've still got sprouts and leeks to plant for later in the year but I'm not sure when I'll have space freed up for them to go in! I'd like to get several more sowings of peas and carrots in too because they're my favourites!

[JO,JO]

hi just sown some,turnip, swede,cabbage,chinese cabbage,gunna go out and plant my courgettes under cloches, i think am pondering on it!

[Paulottie]

Propagation greenhouse full to bursting. 4x types Brassicas, 4 x sorts of beans,sweetcorn, lettuce plugs, melons cukes more Toms, butternuts, courgettes,marrows, pumpkins, turks turban squash Asparagus all are up and happening, greenhouse two is pretty full too leeks, tom floweres aubergines, celeriac and so on.

Harvesting 30 spears of asparagus a day lots of rhubarb and purple sprouting.

Planting out slow though, got a couple of rows of peas, lettuce, early spuds(a few just showing) broad beans are all flower and no beans. I've been planting maincrops through plastic today. 60 Rattes, 120 pink fir apple aare in and 30 King Edwards...which were abandoned when the heavens opened.

[sallyw]

mrs overenthusiastic!!!

i am a novice at all of this but i must say after yesterdays lovely weather i got a bit carried away! previously planted are peas (heads out of the soil and now netted) onions and shallots (shallots are much slower) rhubarb, rasps blackcurrants, redcurrants bramley apple tree blackberries gooseberries and a few rows of potatoes but yesterday planted courgettes (with cloches) broad beans french beans marrow strawberries, sweetcorn and broadbeans (i told you i got a bit carried away!!) i'm everso enthusiastic about it all and also have lots of seedlings at home waiting to go into the new allotment

[Paulottie]

Broadies and corgettes(with cloches) should be fine. Get some water bottles cut off with lids removed for your sweetcorn. French beans, well they may go yellow but might be alright. All but the broadies are frost sensitive so watch that forecast (must say looks frost free for the moment)

[Demeter]

At my (shared allotment) we have spuds, cabbages and broad beans planted out so far. Allotment mate direct-sowed some sweetcorn last week but I'm not holding my breath on that one lol. We've also got some asparagus crowns in and some raspberry canes ready to go in.

At home I have only got spuds and mangetout planted out, plus 3 new blueberry bushes and an existing gooseberry, also various herbs.

In the miniGH there are seedlings / young plants of broccoli (purple sprouting and crown & sceptres), Brussels sprouts, okra, tomatoes, pointed peppers, dwarf beans, pumpkin. The brassicas will get planted out soon, but have been in the house until yesterday and are still pretty small anyway, so not for a week or 10 days yet I should think.

Sown but not yet through are carrot, asparagus (to add to this year's crowns, next year), cucumber, beetroot and red onion. Allotment mates have got some caulis, more sweetcorn, peas, courgettes, leeks and runners on the go I think. Various herb and salad crops on the go all over the place. Thinking about swede.

Still need to get some mangetout going for the allotment. And some marigolds and nasturtiums and sunflowers are in the plan but flowers just don't seem so important! - they haven't even been sown yet... maybe delphiniums too, just cos they're pretty.

[Hans Mum]

had a full day at lottie yesterday & planted some charlotte spuds, peas, radishes, leaves, onion sets i found in back of shed beetroot not much else yet as we probably havent seen the last frost yet and its rained so much today they're gonna need swimming lessons

[momol]

So far I have planted out my raised beds with:

Potatoes (in pots),onions, spring onions,Japanese celery, spinach, beet, 2 tipes of mustards,pak choy, carrot, radish, lettuce, 2 types of peas, 3 tipes of beans (yesterday) and tomatoes (yesterday).

Sweet corns and squashes will be plant out in a couple of days plus some 15 types of brassicas seedlings.

[amandaandherveg]

Spuds in tubs, strawbs in an old wheelbarrow, some in front of greenhouse staging and some in a pop up garden tidy. Built a trough out of old scaffolding boards and popped more strawbs in it. Onion sets (red and regular) in a 1.2m x 1.2m raised bed and Yellow Mange Tout out on canes in the garden. Transferred all the seedling trays from my windowsills in the house into the new greenhouse which now has the door fitted, yippee!

[Anne-Marie]

Planted out in beds:
Onions
Garlic
Shallots
First earlies
Peas

To be planted:
Carrots
Tomatoes
Runner beans
Salad
Marigolds
Poppies
And any other things I discover I need!

[axj]

Well axj is pulling radishes at the moment, the kids love em, we have a couple of bigguns, which will be horrible to eat, but fun to see how big they get before Cinderella uses them for a coach.

Looking at putting in beans tomorrow, to sit alongside the tomatoes. No idea if this is a good thunking, as I have almost no idea what I am doing, and about 5 square yards of window box to play with, which is why I came to this forum to see what everyone else is doing. Axj has the luck of slightly warmer weather than in Britain, but it is quite similar here in the north of Spain.

Anne Marie I planted some poppy seeds, following the guidelines I have seen online, the kids demanded some flowers, and in principle they will make a nice screen across the windows.

My problem is that I have no idea what a poppy seedling looks like, so the AXJ household currently has a collection or either weeds or baby poppies. I have searched high an low on all the forums I can find, and I can't find a picture of a poppy seedling. Can you help?

[amandaandherveg]

Do they look anything like this axj? The Junior Seed Site