hows your growing season going so far? :)

[Irish-Veg]

I had a quick panic this evening about how behind I am and then i counted what I have of everything and im not as bad as I once thought!

I have 8 G.delight
12 pumpkin 'munckihin' + 2 jack O lantern (considering doing a few more)
10 Pepper 'marconi' (considering sowing 3 or 4 more)
13 Tiny Tim tom plants
10 Cuke plants
9 moonbeam squash
3 courgette (might sow 4/5 more)
5- Pear tomato
7 Black Krim tomato
5 Tigerella
1 sweetie

3rays of sweetcorn up and growing well.

1/2 tray of Caulis/psb
9 melon seedlings
6 gherkin seedlings
About 20 celery seedlings
about 20 strawb seedlings
12 Broad bean plants
Spinach, lettuce, + other salad crops
and i sowed a tray of fennel (no idea why, can you plant out or waste if time?)
Tray if sunflowers

sowed outside are carrotts (3 different varieties, all coming up nicely)


Sowing in next few days
celeriac,Turnips.swedes/kohl rabi/parsnips/wildflowers/runnerbeans/beetroot.

[Alison]

What made you think you were behind? It's still early for squashes, cucumbers etc and I don't sow most of my brassicas until the middle of April onwards either.


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[Irish-Veg]

Just over thinking as usual

[bretty666]

I seem to be doing well. i think? Just impatient but gonna stall another week before planting my sweetcorn..but thrn again..the farmers have been cutting hay.........normally a good sign its gonna be warm and dry for a week.

[AllInContainers]

I have flowers forming on my cherry, medlar, raspberries, blackcurrant and elder, and one of the seven blueberry bushes (the only one that's old enough) ... oh, and on a couple of the ramsons too - I expected to see much more leaves before seeing flower buds.

Seedlings include dahlia yams, inca berries, queensland arrowroot, chillis, midget melon, alpine strawbs, and hyacinth beans. I did have giant leeks on the go, but they're not looking too clever at the moment. I'd like to get more new plants going too, but I need to get the alpine strawbs out to free up extra windowsill space first. Chinese artichokes have started showing a couple of sprouts too.

Once all the strawbs (alpine and otherwise) go in their final positions (hopefully this weekend), I can sow salad crops in the garden, and start off a few other things in the house such as asparagus peas and electric daisies

[gardendancer]

The apples,plums and pear trees are in full blossom ( pear is nearly over ) the cherries are about to burst.
The rhubarb has had 2 harvest, and 'm so excited 3 asparagus spears are above ground!

Got
3 marmande and 3 gardners delight that I started early. They are meant to be grown in pots and go in and out everyday, have the first tomatoes set on one of the marmandes this morning.

Got another 6 marmande and 6 GD in little pots ( started 2 months later )
Got celery and cucumber ( and an experimental early courgette) in pots and trays to go out once they get a bit bigger.
Lettuce is poking up, the early broadbeans are in full flower, the mangetout ( planted outside ) is 4 inches and getting ready to climb.
The peas are all up, some a little further along than others,
The first beetroot sowing (under plastic bottles outside) are up and the potatoes are poking through.

I'm sitting on my hands to sow the rest - especially that which is meant to go in after the peas and broadbeans are out.

[Bill HH]

I seem to be doing well. i think? Just impatient but gonna stall another week before planting my sweetcorn..but thrn again..the farmers have been cutting hay.........normally a good sign its gonna be warm and dry for a week.

I doubt if they are cutting for hay, it is more likely silage, they cut it and let it wilt for a day or two before collecting it. First hay is around wimbledon week.

[sparrow100]

My quince is about to burst into blossom, the fruit bushes are flowering, the apple and pears are a bit behind them (and the pear has pear blister mite ) but I am Very Behind on digging so there is no space (ie no beds made) for the brassicas which are on my balcony and the cucurbits which are still in their packets! Won't sow the latter till just after Easter as I know they catch up easily. And frankly I'd rather not have the pressure!

[Compo72]

Alpine plants I got from garden centre doing ok
Gooseberry bushes are growing well

Raspberrys starting to stir too life

Plenty of life on the green gauge and plum trees

My annual seeds in containers are germinating
Better than the perennials , even though they sown earlier

Carrots and parsnip seedlings needing thinning out

Even some shoots on my first earlies are poking through

I'm sat here in warm spring sunshine
Wondering if we might get a first tonight




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[Knight of Albion]

If I'm honest, I'm disappointed. Some runner beans are up, but most of them, whilst stirring, have yet to break the soil. If this sunny weather holds up it should make the difference though. Watering in the morning, keeping the door and window slightly ajar to get the heat up. Moisture + warmth ...

The sweet peas are busting to go out....

Elsewhere in the garden, good. Everything is starting to bud and green.

To my pleasant surprise, apart from a potted primula, no casualties from the winter just gone, this despite the ground being saturated for weeks on end - and the most violent storms since the Hurricane.

[batman]

Wow, I'm feeling like a right slacker

I've been out and about most days, and the seedlings are slowly taking over the windowsills, but on the plot it still looks pretty bare!
As I stare at it intently, I can see the little signs of progress, the leaves on my fruit bushes, the radishes in the greenhouse, etc. but the outside beds are mostly empty, or the seeds are just about stirring.

As for tomatoes: most of mine are only between 3 and 5 inches tall and aren't going out for another month!

[Snadger]

Brill!kkkkkkkkkkkkk

[MrsCordial]

AllInContainers I noticed earlier that my ramsons have buds too and like you I was surprised to see them already. I'm so thrilled with the ramsons as I love them but my parents were obliterating them as weeds, so I saved a few bulbs from their garden and am ridiculously tickled that they've taken without a murmur.

I started sowing things too early, having been given some windowsill planters for my birthday. I now have a zillion seedlings and only so much house room, but as AIC knows I do now at least have a zillion pots too! The veg patch needs lots of weeding and the cardboard re-arranging, but I feel happy with where I'm at with it. I try to get out in the veg patch for half an hour every day after the children get back from school, which helps me keep on top of basic stuff, then I have more of a go at the weekend if I can't avoid it ;D

[MrsCordial]

Whoops, forgot the detail.

Strawbs, gooseberry bushes and rasps all starting to do their thing.
Leftover parsnips, leeks, potatoes and onions from last year are looking great.
Potatoes 12 yo DD planted are coming up nicely.
This year-planted onion and garlic sets doing nicely.