Potted on some tomatoes and sweet peppers, sowed some more tomatoes, sweet peppers and cayenne peppers. Also sowed some more early peas. I'm running out of space....hope this cold/windy spell goes away soon, though it looks set to get worse
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Originally posted by veggiechicken View PostHey Feral - are you a Lunar-tic too? You must have an opposite moon phase calendar to us (I think)
Please don't try to explain it - I haven't got to grips with the Northern Hemisphere yet!
This site has phases of the moon for the southern hemisphere.
This site has a conversion chart for going from UT(GMT) to where you live in the world."A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View PostMore potatoes, I feel Irish ....!"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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Synodic.
I have been sticking rigidly with the weeks up to last week. I like the organisation, the way it makes me do maintenance jobs and look at all my seeds on a regular basis to decide what to plant. I have found only really having weekends and the odd Monday available pretty hard to work around but hopefully, no we have extra evening light it'll get easier.
I did panic in March because I had so much planted up and no where to put it all as the weather was still so cold at night. So I sort of stopped planting and am now a bit (but only a bit) worried about the long term gap this might create. Foolishly, I then bought some onion seedlings last week, having said I wouldn't this year. Had to put all of them in modules, they just looked too small to plant out and way too big to leave squashed in the tray they came in - there were hundreds!
April
I sowed pea seeds in one of my new beds and started off beans in root trainers and loo rolls (French, Runner and Broad). I think the Runners and Frenchies are finding it a bit cold in the tunnel.
I did get my potatoes in on a root day and sowed some carrots and parsnips, planted out garlic (companion planting expt but had to sow some Dill in there as well - probably won't germinate-way too cold but looking towards Gertrude.)
This last week things went haywire.
My cucumbers didn't germinate (I think I've made the beginner's mistake of over watering) so I started another couple off becasue I didn't want to wait till next leaf week. Ditto for some of my courgettes.
I thought some of my Kohl Rabi had stopped germinating so I did a test ( think I started on a root day) but then had to plant them up when they did germinate which was deffinitely on a do nothing with plants day.
Finally, (if you've read this far well done) I'm interested in companion planting and can quite see that trying to stick to a synodic pattern is going to make it very complicated (to me) as I like to sow whole beds at a go.
Right that's me up to date!
VVG hope cold not too rough."A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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Originally posted by marchogaeth View PostSynodic.
Right that's me up to date!
VVG hope cold not too rough.
Take heart March and others.Last edited by VirginVegGrower; 13-04-2012, 08:38 PM.Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein
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Maintenance week and I'm busy raking, composting and pruning again.Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein
Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw
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Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View PostMaintenance week and I'm busy raking, composting and pruning again."A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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Today was definitely not a fruit day no matter which system I try to fiddle, but I suddenly found some energy lying around the house so I used it to pot on some tomatoes
Perhaps if I had waited for the correct day I wouldn't have 24 empty 3" pots but a list that says I only potted on 21 plantsThe problem with rounded personalities is they don't tesselate.
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Put in my last two cucumber seeds! Two little seedlings I had look like the last two nights in the window might have been too cold. (I've put them in the propagator for an overnight warm but am not helpful. I also b******d up the previous ones by over watering. Really don't want to buy anymore seed so fingers crossed)
Sweet corn on tissue in the propagator to check for germination before planting on.Last edited by marchogaeth; 20-04-2012, 09:03 PM."A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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Synodic leaf and flower week starts today!Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein
Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw
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What have I planted today (and yesterday)?
Also discovered:- I hate planting through ground cover material. Plants look sweet afterwards though!"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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Cleaned some pots today, then potted on courgettes and a few tomatoes. The beans, peppers, tomatoes, courgettes and peas that I sowed last week are all up and doing well! Hope this is the last week of all this rain, I know its good for the plants in the ground but I think quite a few of my seeds have rotted in their modules.
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Nothing - in answer to the original question because the weather is truly awful. The tunnel is chock full of modules that can't even go out for hardening off and plants that should be in beds in the tunnel itself. I'm going to have to do the thing I didn't want to, which is potting everything on but then I'll just need more room! Who said gardening was relaxing?Last edited by marchogaeth; 29-04-2012, 10:04 AM."A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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