2016 Growing Thread

Last season's thread Here

Watercress has germinated



Strawberries are cropping well, been feeding them

 

The strawberry looks very tasty

 

Just found the ants were busy burying them

 

Better I suppose than finding out what mice can do with them, nipping the lot off the plants and gathering them into piles to rot.

 

There's a Dormouse in the greenhouse, but he's always asleep

 

Blimey how big are the ants round your way Zigs.

 

They got their own shovels

 

Little blighters.

 

Now if i'd actually planted this Parsley, i'd be very pleased with it, but as it happens, it's all self sown



Potatoes are coming on

 

I used to grow watercress, first year for a while I've not, used an old washing up bowl to stand the pots in, so they always had their feet in water. Must get some more seed, my favourite salad crop.

 

My bulb fennel has sprouted, never grown it before, so here's hoping. Has anyone grown it, will the plants I thin out transplant ok?

 

so cute.. I always find them half chewed

nice bit of parsley, be happy with that!

 

You can thin them out, but they don't like being transplanted, they also bolt if they go short of water.

 

Oca



That's going out in the ground today, apparently doesn't do well in pots.