2017 GROWING THREAD

Radishes, what else? (More garlic)

Despite the lovely sunshine, there is frost on the ground.

They were sown mid-December, so the real question is will they make it?

 

Nice one- wish our winters were as mild as yours. I would need an ice pick to do any outdoor gardening!

 

canna have germinated, more sweet peas have too, 1 tiny catnip sproutling, re-sown chilli, sown solanum laciniatum.. leeks and onions still good

some big no-nos - mould in a clover tub (can't remember what I put in there either, oops) and I chucked some honeydew melon seeds (shop bought melon) in a pot for a crack and they've germinated.. balls, feel obliged to look after them now even though I have no hope for them.

 

Given the shortage of salad veg in supermarkets and keen to make a buck or two from veggies, vegans and diabetics anxious for their next fix; I'm just about to sow my early lettuce; Iceberg and Cos and and super-strength organic too. May make a fortune, if I don't get caught.
I think I'll try Rocket too, the effects are more immediate and the market might be stronger. Though I'm not sure if it's a class A or class B veg.
This time next year I'll either be on my yacht in the sun or in jail doing porridge.

 

blimmin' cats have knocked over some onions/leeks, canna have popped up, asphodeline lutea has too, thought baby slugs had moved in in a tray of cyclamen hederifolium but realised a few have germinated, ha! Cat grass is outside growing slowly but surely. Asparagus.. meh, won't see anything for a while/years, rhubarb (not the lottie ones) has a stalk! Pinched out the sweet peas, the free sweet peas I sowed are really leggy..oh well, still got 7 packets I re-sowed chilli seeds after a no show but lost one due to my stupidity, seed case got stuck and pulled it instead of soaking it haha! Started off some new dahlia tubers 'cause I'm an impatient fool. Potted up 3 garlic cloves and they have shot up. Melons still growing!? Ooh catnip has a second sproutling. Also sowed solanum lacinatum but no show and I have no more seed of that sooo, balls to it. Off to sow some more onion, leek and chilli.. and some peppers.. no idea why, I don't like them. Just way too eager

 

On Tues, me and the little one sowed a few things (we were bored):
Strawberry temptation, bedding salvia, aster ostrich feather (germinated already), aubergine, heliotrope, dwarf dahlias, aubrietia (germinated), cleome, lantana camara (lil one didn't sow that), chilli anaheim, more sweet peppers, cerinthe, more cupani sweet peas, purple basil. Potted up a bare root poppy from wilko. Solanum lacinatum and acacia retinodes has finally showed face, everything seems ok, not too leggy (by my standards) considering. Loving the propagator I got for free, being well used (abused). Chitting more spuds and put some onion sets in trays earlier.. my Saturday nights are so rock and roll

 

I harvested this eight inch beast today! The variety is Medallion, from King's seeds - been growing them for several years now and they never let me down.

 

Cor

 

is this growing thread only for veggies, seems that way.

 

Hi Trunky,

That Cauli looks gorgeous, one of my favourite veggies.

 

On our local news the other day, there was a piece about local farmers having to plough back into the ground all the cauli's they had grown that year. If that becomes a trend, we may have to look to your example!

 

blue poppy seeds sitting on soil in sun in garden room, nothing yet.

 

Currently got some species dahlias (mercki and australis) germinated in the garage, also some buddleja seed I picked up while visiting Paignton Zoo has germinated well. First signs of life from the dahlias in the greenhouse.