Vegetable Growing 2025

Sowed some sweet peas and hollyhocks in pots and then back in the garden room.
Harvested some more leeks, some better than others but still ours.

 

Yes you need to make sure it's listed as 30 g/sqm , the thinner 17 g/sqm isn't fit for purpose but that's what all the gardening centres sells. It just disintegrates after a season

 

Onward peas and Bunyards Exhibition broad beans sown in modules in greenhouse inside the blowaway(grow house) for double glazing effect.

 

I've got some pretty thick fleece, but TBH you would never grow anything under it, it hardly allows any light through, I only bought it for overnight cover which I remove during the day.
Not sure what its weight is.

 

I've seen 50gsm I wouldn't use that to grow under. Probably goes thicker still

I did post this before, I find it very useful to get plants off to a good start in spring/early summer
The benefit of fleece in spring

 

The farmers round here grow organic brassicas on some of the suitable fields, Swedes in particular are all grown under fleece. It's left on all season, keeps the Cabbage White Butterflies off the crop along with other pests.

 

Traps set?

 

@infradig even with traps I have found peas and beans taken - mice don't seem to be bothered by their dead friends! I sow mine in units under a secure perspex cover with a weight on top to stop them getting in!

 

My growing shelf is doing well, I have early tomato and chillis germinated plus snap peas, turnip and beet in cells to go out in the greenhouse soon plus ginger root shooting. All are not too drawn so they must be getting enough light.

 

Sown all my lettuce, herbs like dill coriander and parsley, radish, broccoli raab and Chinese brokali. Not doing cabbage/cauliflower this year.

All sown in modules then when germinated ill move them to the greenhouse

 

I’ve got two cucumber marketmore seedlings germinated, plan to make a planter from pallets and support them on a wooden frame with a wire mesh sheet attached. The sheet is 60x90, I don’t really want something 180 high (using 2 mesh sheets), as it will block the sun from the veg containers behind. Having just read the seed packet , it says they grow to 2m. Would the plants still fruit if I pinched the tops off when they got to 1m or am I just being silly

 

Cuces only fruit a set number of times per node so they do need to grow long to fruit. If you pinch them theyll probably send out a new shoot. Cuces are big plants! Some nice big bamboo poles works great, or you can grow them up a small tree or bush. They have tendrils like grape vines do that grab onto things but they die in winter so can be easily removed.

That said I would consider it too early still to sow them, they dont enjoy nights below 10c really. I sow in April. Two sowings can also be good in april then late may.

 

ahh okay thanks @JWK yes cms so either just short of a metre high or wide, whichever way around I use them. Think maybe I’d use two of them, the bigger length sideways so it would be 90 wide and 120 high. 90 wide means I could use a whole bag of compost laid flat with the mesh on supports leaning back a bit on an angle. Then they can grow higher then I first planned. All my growing is in containers of sorts.

 

oh I guess I’ve gone too early then? The two that have germinated are only small still, in the greenhouse but as the sun has arrived with the beginning of spring it’s 20+ degrees in there! They are not potted up, just in a snail roll so maybe they’ll hold off getting too big too soon if I put them in a cold frame? Thanks for the advice @Adam I next year I’ll try and hold back my enthusiasm!