2013 Growing Season

Loli , can I sow my sugar snaps and mangetout in modules in an unheated greenhouse now First year for sugar snaps , I always thought it was just another name for mangetout.
About when should we be planting runner beans in modules ?

TIA

 

Morning Harry,
Yes they'll be fine i've not grown Sugar Snaps before but i understand they can be eaten as Mangetout when they are young ...before they swell...or left to grow too
I sow my Runners around the middle of April.....

 

Cheers Loli and John I only found this sticky today , it will be very useful for us veggie newbies for sowing dates etc .

 

Labour of love I reckon, as you need a lot of plants (relative to the number of mouthfuls you want )

Got a length of guttering lying around? You can sow that as you would outdoors (double or triple row), suspend it from the rafters where the mice can't get it, and then "slide" the whole thing into a shallow trench when you want to "plant out".

 

I don't grow many of any veg Kristen ,my veg area is just a little space behind my shed . It would also take a lot of mangetout to fill my big mouth !

I dug my old root trainers out yesterday and have planted the Sugar Snaps , Mangetout and also some onion sets . They are now in the greenhouse

 

I moved the cabbage plants (Hispi) which have been in the greenhouse and really starting to grow, outside under the cloches, which have been in place for a couple of weeks to warm the soil up a bit. I'll probably plant them in a week or so. I noticed that the Rhubarb is sparking into life

 

Probably not worth making a thread about so I thought I'd ask in this thread:

Ready to sow? (They will have been chitting for six weeks this weekend coming)

Second Early Charlotte's


What's happened to my rhubarb?


THANK YOU!

 

They look fine, but I expect your soil is too cold to plant into, so keep them in decent light, and frost free, and plant when the soil warms up.

 

Pricked out Celeriac and Lettuce(Lettony).....think i ought to sow more Beetroot as the ones in the Cells i grew aren't looking too happy......

 

Did a bit today.

Planted my Cabbages that have been outside under a cloche. I'll keep the cloche in place for a week or so, should be fine after that. Sowed some more cabbages in the greenhouse, Caramba (pointed). Dug through my bean bed and put up the sticks. Sowed some Leeks as not many came up from my original sowing. A bit late, but TBH, although I like Leeks, I never seem to do well with them, so they are usually an afterthought. It was looking likely that I might be a bit short with Onions, so I sowed some more, Hytech, into modules. Again, a bit late, but hopefully they'll catch up. A while back, I sowed some Long Red Florence (onions), kindly donated to me by Vince. Well, after they came up I managed to tip the lot up! So, I re-sowed a couple of weeks ago and they are now up I potted on my Chilli plants (Jalapino), which are now showing good growth. I notice that my Sweet Peppers (Big Banana) are also now making some progress, at last. I put out another cloche to warm the soil up a bit in preparation for planting out my Shallots, which I'll do next weekend.

Onwards and upwards from now on, hopefully

 

Thanks for that, gonna give it another week for the spuds. Rest of the rhubarb is doing okay thank gawd.

 

Chick Peas finally arrived today through the post,now sown....Red Baron Onion sets in modules starting to come to life....up to now all seems to be going well in the GH....just need to keep an eye on the weather