Kitchen Garden Forum

I've got peas and broad beans, lettuce and potatoes in the unheated tunnel, tomatoes and basil in the propagator. Looking good so far!

Is it too early to plantonion sets outside in a raised bed?

Tomatoes just appearing in pots on bedroom window sill. Lettuce, summer cabbage, calabrese, cauliflower likewise in unheated greenhouse. 5 pots of potatoes in greenhouse, strawberry and raspberry plants sitting in greenhouse waiting for weather to improve so can plant out. Nothing else planned for at least a couple of weeks.

In the greenhouse I have various things on the go. The green house is heated and I have supplementary lighting to extend the day length by a few hours each end.

Vegetables
Potatoes in large pots
Onions from seed
Spring Cabbage
Aubergine
Cut and Come Again lettuce
Carrots
Sweet Peppers (Not germinated yet)
Chillie Peppers (Not germinated yet)
Peas in guttering (Not germinated yet)

Non Edibles
Rudbeckia
Lobelia
Aster
Dahlia
Echinacea

Finally in the cold frames
Broad beans and sweet peas in root trainers that are hardening off before planting out in a month or so.
Winter Density Lettuce (Ready now from a sowing back in late October)
Lambs Lettuce (Ready now from a sowing back in late October)
Chinese salad mix (Ready now from a sowing back in late October)

The main sowing activity will be tomatoes next weekend I hope and I will be starting some more brasica’s off as I have to grow them on well in pots first to try and beat the club root on my plot.

Jerry

I got out two of those long polythene cloches that i have not used for a long time due to them always blowing away. yesterday i have planted potatoes under them and buried the sides of the polythene in the soil instead of putting bricks on them.Hope this will hold them.Today got out there realy early and got some broard beans, peas and early carrots in.
Probaly end up resowing the carrots but worth a chance. Just got done and it started to rain.
Also put my shallots in sunday.
Sorry to everyone who lives up north and still waiting to get on your land, it will not be long now.

Kind regards Old herbaceous.

It will either rain or get dark.

Ok chaps i've got impatient again (as I always do) and planted loads early last week. I've got them in one of those plastic greenhouse thingies as the main one on the plot hasn't got a door on yet. Anyway, this is what i've got on the go:

Veg:
Calabrese: Olympia (friend grew it last year and had brill results - still cropping now)
Cabbage- Red Drummhead
Cabbage - Hispi F1
Cabbage - Earliest of All
Cauli - Alll Year Round
Brussels - Rubine
Brussels - Falstaff
Chilli - Fiesta (A trial one from Gardeners World)
Chilli - Hot and Spicy Mix
Capsicum - Sweet Spanish Mixed
Tom - Sun Baby
Tom - Bloody Butcher
Tom - Kennilworth King George
Tom - Constantio Fiorentio
Tom - Garden Pearl
Celery - Golden Self Blanching
Celery - Giant Red

Flowers:
Sweet Peas - 100 different varieties
Lupins - Mixed
Delphiniums - Mixed
And a few others I can't remember the names of and it's too wet to go outside!!!!!

Not bad for a little four tier plastic greenhouse is it? Most have germinated and i'm putting extra soil around anything that's a bit leggy.

Looks like someones going to be busy pricking out in a couple of weeks time Lizzie. Good on you old girl.
Kind regards old herbaceous.

It will either rain or get dark.

Jerry, I presume that when you say Spring Cabbage you mean such as Greyhound or Primo for early summer cutting. My Spring Cabbage Spring Hero were sown last August/September and are beginning to heart up now.
Allan Day

Allan,

Sorry yes they are indeed a mix of Greyhound and Kalixy. Kalixy is meant to have some club root tollerance so it is a bit of an experiment.

The club root tollerant calabrese Trixie worked very well last year by the way.

Jerry

Greenhouse, greenhouse,I want a greenhouse, you lot are making me jealous.

Can't afford a new one at the mo' and no one round my way is asking for people to dismantle & take away.

waaa, waaa , waaaa.

Peter

I believe Focus DIY are doing a special at the moment for one at £99, hang on I will find a link:

http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/invt/299039&b ... ge,3,,home

It is a 4 by 6 but no idea of the quality but it may be an option.

Alse keep an eye on ebay.

Jerry

Peter - a few years back I put a wanted notice on our local village notice board - I had about 5 people contact me and I ended up eventually with a lovely FREE aluminium frame greenhouse which just needed a few panes of glass (these were expensive at about 70 pounds) - worth a try

Brenjon, you might want to hold back on planting onion sets, considering the state of the weather. Depends where you live. I'm in the Midlands and my sets are still in their bags because I won't chance it just yet.

Peter just to make you realy jealous two years ago i got a phone call from a friend of a friend wanting to know if i was interested in a 24 feet by 10 feet greenhouse for free. I nearly bit his hand off.
Even though i could only fit an 18 by 10 in my garden. When i went to get it i could not believe my eyes, It was only about four years old, it had six roof vents, four louve vents, a fully glazed partition wall and staging down both sides.
It took a day and a half to take it down.
I phoned Robisons and they were very helpful and sent me a manual.I put a brick base in cut six feet off it and got it up and glazed in four days.It realy is a cracker. Actually i think i will go and have another quick look at it now.

What a lucky Old herbaceous.

It will either rain or get dark.

I am so very jealous!!!! and a Robinson!!! you lucky gardener!!!