2015 Growing Season..

Broad Beans are flowering.

 

In go the Cues..(Carmen F1),French Beans (Cobra),Runner Beans (Scarlet Emperor),Chard (Vulcan),Sweet corn (Sweet Nugget F1) and a mix of salad leaves

 

Planted my dwarf French bean slenderette now on a windowsill . Wilkos Turbo onion sets planted , and Oregon Mange-tout . I was going to plant sugar snap peas as well - but can't find them anywhere - cost me £0.99 they did !

 

I need to plant my french beans too.

Greenhouse all clean waiting for Toms to move in

 

They're probably in the same place as my Sweet Peppers Harry

 

They will probably turn up around November Loli !
Time to order another packet..........

 

Moles Seeds are free P & P for seeds. Except for Peas and Beans.

I try to be helpful ...

 

Thanks for that Kristen !

 

Beetroot sown in modules

 

I do three-to-a-9cm-pot Loli. Plant out as-is and then pull 2 for thinnings leaving the main one to grow on. Courtesy of Mr M. Don a few years back

 

Sown Autumn King carrots in containersI don't like growing in containers and some more Sweet Nugget sweetcorn in modules...don't ask me where I'm going to put themalso re sown some Parsnips..the others were starting to show but inbetween them Red Duke of York Potatoes from 2 YEARS AGO are making an appearance....that bed has been dug and double dug and triple dug and........where do they keep coming from....so the bed has been dug yet again and re sown...I can't see me having much luck but I'll give it a go....

 

Over the past couple of weeks I've planted shallots, potatoes (Charlotte, Maris Piper and King Edwards) and spring onion and carrots seeds into the veggie patch. Cucumber and Sweet Corn are sown in pots in the conservatory. Tomato plants are in the greenhouse with a few more from seed in trays in there as well. Pineberry is starting to flower in a pot with some strawberries on the decking

 

Onions sets,potatoes,cabbage,pak choi,lettuce and chard planted
The zebel weed supressant is grand for the pak choi & lettuce,cheers @Kristen ..took me hrs though to bury the edges and plant up......knees are hurting

 

Why's that? We like Carrots in containers - I use up last-season-MPC mixed 50:50 with sharp sand, and being able to bring a container "close to Kitchen door" is, apparently, regarded as A Good Think by Chef

I regliiously rogue-out volunteer potatoes. Mostly because I want my crop rotation to be a proper break between crops, but also 'coz they are a proper thug when they grow and, like you say, interfere with follow-on crop. If they come up in-crop I just take their heads off, they give up after a few weeks, before the crop is in I dig 'em up properly.

I start my Parsnips in newspaper-tubes, so the Spuds [and all other weeds] have plenty of Spring to encourage them to make an appearance before planting-time. Heavy soil here, so I don't direct-sow anything as it is at least mid-April before I could get onto the soil ... but even if it wasn't I think raise-and-plant is better than sow-direct because the later is always a race between Seed and Weed, and the Weed (by design :( ) is adept at winning that race, sadly.

You now have the whole summer to admire them from your deckchair without having to weed them - so its invest-some-to-make-some

 

I just don't seem to have much success with container grown veg,it's probably a watering issuealso I prefer to direct sow the likes of Parsnips and Beetroot as that's where I seem to get better results too or I have done in the past (now I've put the mockers on them)

Regarding these rouge potatoes ,I've surely got them this time I wouldn't mind but when I dug them out they were only the size of a pea so I can maybe be forgiven for missing them but they're annoying little. IF they decide to show themselves again I'll do what you do and chop their heads off