2015 Growing Season..

Sown some containers of Early Nantes Carrots,White Lisbon Spring onions and mixed salad leaves in the GH....Just because the sun was out and i was thinking of Salads

 

Sown Celeriac and more 'Oarsman ' Leeks

 

Not heard of it. A favourite or yours, or are you trying it out?

 

I've not tried it before so thought i'd give it a go..Said to "bulk up quickly with no sign of bulbing" and " has a good tolerance to rust and bolting"....What could possibly go wrong

 

You are in good company!

I'm pleased to report I am on track with vegetable sowings ... its just everything else that I am behind with

Perhaps it would help me if I made a list:

Not pruned roses
Nor Buddleia, nor Cornus
Need to remove tip-buds from young hedges - BEFORE they come into leaf.
Not put Iron Sulphate on lawn moss
Not sown most of the expensive, precious, ornamental seeds - that should have been sown by now
Not ordered some trees that I want to plant bare-root
Some that I have ordered haven't arrived yet Phew! need to allocate time to plant them soon Blast!
Double blast - some bare root that came over a week ago are still in the garage not potted up yet

Not got a conservatory to grow everything on - still being built. Have been camping in it, thinking that would be OK until May, but now realise if I don't vacate it they can't finish building it, and I want Builders gone by Summer time.

So that's a few more jobs then:

Move all hardy plants in greenhouse outside
Move all plants from new Conservatory to greenhouse - if they will fit!

Make space in propagation greenhouse for plants currently under lights, like Onions, so that there is more space under lights for "other things".

Definitely feels so much better now I have made a list ... just need to "Make Time" now, I wonder if Jamie Olivers recipe for that is better than Heston Blumenthal's?

 

I've decided just to sow everything like normal, we might not get a house this year. You never know.

Today I sowed 12 x King Edwards and some Carrot 'Cortina' seeds. When can I start growing salad leaves? Indoors/outdoors?

 

Mr Fothergills won't send out my Onions sets until the 29th of March:

http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/Oni...n-Heat-Treated-Collection_2.html#.UxwWnz9_vTU

Isn't that a tad late as their page advises sowing from March, I'm a bit annoyed!

 

@nFrost Wilkos have big bags of onion sets in stock now. 0.5kg for £1.50 about 3 types I think
http://www.wilko.com/onion+potato-seeds/wilko-onion-sets-turbo-500g-1421/invt/6481940

 

If only I knew that! Could've saved a fiver too! Wilkos versus Fothergills, any difference in quality?

 

Never had a problem with Wilkos onion sets , they all look healthy enough
If I plant sets direct outside , its usually the middle of April, so Fothergills delivery should be fine.

 

Brill, thanks Harry.

 

Blast - there are things on your list that should have been on mine!

I need to ORDER mine!

Cut the grass
Prick-out and pot on goodness knows how much

Ah! I need to plant my Potato Planters
And make a Carrot Frame - I've bought 4 bags of sand, I am going to have a go at making a slightly raised bed frame, for my raised bed , to contain the high-proportion sand/soil mix I am going to make, and hopefully grow some excellent Sweet Candle carrots.

How big an area do I need for a sowing of Carrots? (Let's assume they will have to Stand and I am not going to make any more frames / sow any more

Cancel the remainder of your Fothergills order and get them from Wilkos?

 

All ready in the garden for sowing outdoors next week *excited muchly*
Sowing tomatoes, peppers and celeriac today.

Purchased some trailing sweet peas, going to have them in hanging baskets this year.