2013 Growing Season

With this late season , things do seem to warm up a notch over the weekend , when should I be looking at planting............
Runner beans in modules in the unheated GH
Pak Choi directly outside

TIA

 

My Red Baron Onions,Beetroot and Peas (all in modules) are having a night out tonight....under cloches though.....temperatures are rising and not before time

 

Finally thawed out here..

Potato bed weeded and rotovated, now covered in black plastic to warm up. Seed tatties all chitted nicely with small strong chits. They'll go in, in this next week or so.

Onion bed next to be dug over in the next few days. Red Baron and Karmen sets in modules and are growing as are the shallots Golden Gourmet, Jemnor and Garlic Eschalotte Grise. All the Elephant garlic I planted is through and growing nicely, 5 last year and all cloves replanted so 22 this year..other autumn planted garlic (forget the name) also through.

Planted in this last month.

2 x Victoria Plum
1 x Conference Pear
1 x Stellar Cherry
3 x Mature Redcurrants
6 x Blackberry

All Rhubarb Crowns showing growth, 2 are being forced and have black bins on them. Most of the fruit pruning has been done but I still have one Plum tree to move.

Tomato Ailsa Craig pricked 'n potted as are our peppers, broad bean plants waiting to go in the ground.

Recently sown..

Cauliflower
Broccoli
Brussel Sprouts
Cabbage (3 different)
Chard
Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Early Purple sprouting and white sprouting too.
Kohl Rabi

Today I'll be sowing the majority of our tomatoes, Sungold, Sungella and San Marzano, some Fennel and Herbs too. No doubt I'll also be sowing many others too...lol...well if you have pots, seed and compost...whats to stop you!

Steve...

 

Tatoe's and Onions going in today I think

 

My Lettuce...Lettony and Mazurosso,chick peas and sugar snax WERE coming on a treat in the GH....Untill .....i'm guessing ...a certain furry creature has been making a meal of them....

 

I've got 12 "certain" furry creatures, ALL barred from the veg patch, we've just put up a heavy duty fence to make sure!

 

Ooops, make that 16, I forgot the ferrets!!!!!

 

Catztail??

 

I have sowed my Polestar and Bridgwater beans in Roottrainers in the GH today. The Mangetout and sugar snaps have just started to germinate in them . I quite like my Roottrainers now after 4 years ! They are very space efficient
I'll leave the Pak Choi for another couple of weeks.

 

My Broad beans cam up a couple of days ago, and already making good progress, in Root-trainers. My Parsnips emerged today that were sown in toilet roll cores, so I'll plant them out tomorrow or monday. Made my second sowing of Tomatoes destined for outdoors. It's starting to feel like the growing season is really getting underway

 

I was going to plant all my things out tomorrow ? They are plug plants . Does this mean it's way too soon

 

"things"?