Sounds good. Not too much going on outside at present so stick to the Greenhouse or Shed!
Richard

What a nice little egg Bill, glad your knee isn't too painful, hold back on the shorts though til it's a bit warmer, you don't want chilly knee !

HensAloud wrote: What a nice little egg Bill, glad your knee isn't too painful, hold back on the shorts though til it's a bit warmer, you don't want chilly knee !

Maybe this coming weekend Angela ,supposed to be getting warmer ,much nicer out there at present than last few mornings

billnorfolk wrote:

HensAloud wrote: What a nice little egg Bill, glad your knee isn't too painful, hold back on the shorts though til it's a bit warmer, you don't want chilly knee !

Maybe this coming weekend Angela ,supposed to be getting warmer ,much nicer out there at present than last few mornings

Been lovely here today Bill, maybe you can get both knees out tomorrow !

Sunday 30th March 2014
Quite warm today although not over sunny ,getting one or 2 eggs everyday now so looking good.
The 50p Rhubarb I bought from B&Q is looking a bit healthier than it was ,it was planted late and didn't move for ages but its well away this year, not a big dish of stewed but enough to get you going

Lots of blossom this year so hopefully lots of fruit .

If this lot turned to fruit would pull the tree over.

The advantage of a Polly tunnel is you can get a little ahead ,should have a lettuce and some Radish ready soon.

Carrots and red beet on the way


Got some Swedes through in small raised bed ,no sign of Parsnips yet in same bed.

Took a bit of a hit Monday morning -5 deg Tomatoes look a bit down but hopefully will pick up they are fairly resilient.

Lettuce and leeks ok no problems there.

Caulies ,Cabbage and Sprouts all got caught have pushed some more seed in just in case.


With hopefully some milder nights things should soon pick up, fingers crossed.

That Rhubub looks good as does everything else, nice and springlike

HensAloud wrote: That Rhubub looks good as does everything else, nice and springlike

Yep didn't think it was going to make it , managed 11 rows of carrots out yesterday ,2 red beet, 2 radish and some more lettuce.But only short rows

Well done Bill. You won't go hungry this year. I've been watering carrots (the only thing I put in the ground) but I suspect I'm watering weeds really.
Your garden looks good.

AnnieG wrote: Well done Bill. You won't go hungry this year. I've been watering carrots (the only thing I put in the ground) but I suspect I'm watering weeds really.
Your garden looks good.

Don't give them to much water Annie ,Carrots need to go down searching for it hence the longer carrots .Another couple of weeks things should start to take off then

Thursday 10th April 2014
Had 2 lovely days just like summer and things are really starting to move ,mustn't get carried away though with colder weather forecast for Easter wouldn't you just know it.Knocked myself up another small raised bed thanks to B&Q cheep decking ideal stuff .

Will use the 2 of them to try to keep up with salad stuff through the summer.
Trying a different approach this year keeping the 5 bigger beds free for main crops this year ,these 2 will be for sweet corn in the nearest one and cabbage ,sprouts but mainly caulies for freezing under the green net in the far one.

The nearest one of these is already full of main crop spuds and the far one is half full of onions and the other half will be full of leeks.

Will be getting runner beans started soon same way in cardboard toilet roll tubes ,ground and frame is all ready for them

Leeks will go straight in from the tray in a couple of weeks ,don't need to be to big as long as you can handle them.

Caulies cabbage and sprouts looking a bit healthier now cold nights are gone and will start putting them out to harden in a week or so.

Finally Tomatoes really picked up this last few days will probably get them into there final pots next week .
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Will be sowing cucumbers and corgets next week on a warm windowsill

Looks good but where's the girls ?

Thursday 17th April 2014
It has been a super few days weather wise , lovely warm sunshine but really cold at night with a frost the last 2 nights but it is not stopping things growing .Managed to get all our Tomatoes in there final pots and filled a couple of pots to warm and dry for the Melonie cucumbers I grow.


These are Rhubarb plants growing from seeds to boost me stock up.

First of the late spuds just poking through ,if a sharp frost was forcast would draw a little soil around to keep it off.

Getting a few flowers on the Strawberry's so looking forward to some fruit soon

Blueberry's got lots of flower on.

Hear is a couple of pics for Angela ,girls looking good about 3 eggs per day at the moment


Sorry about that one they moved

Bill what are the green things in some of the plant pots?

Funky chicken wrote: Bill what are the green things in some of the plant pots?

They came from Lidels for seeing how wet the compost is for watering ,haven't watered them yet as compost was quite wet

Monday 21st April 2014
Thought with rain forecast would be a good time to get me caulie,sprout and cabbage plants in , rolled back the black plastic to find this ,one of the reasons I keep thinking of not growing Potatoes anymore.

So instead of a nice planting job had to start digging loosening up the soil one thing them greens do not like.
It took a little longer than expected but got there in the end .


4 rows of caulies, 3 rows of sprouts and 2 rows of cabbage .
Just got one big bed left for me Sweetcorn, and we nearly there