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14 May 2010
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The garden is starting to take form. Hours spent in it are increasing rapidly..
Pea - Meteor BuddingSunny 12°C / 54°FI could quite easily wile away most waking hours in the garden. Finding some job to do, pottering about or simply looking at everything with wonder, pride and a huge amount of satisfaction. Pic 1 is the view towards the study in the flat. Lots of container stuff going on here including several t...
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14 May 2010
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Temperatures increase. Time for some planting out - finally.
Borlotto Dwarf Planting Out, Runner Bean - Desiree Planting Out, Broad Bean - Crimson Flowered Potting Up, ...Partly Sunny 17°C / 63°FWe’ve had quite the cold snap in the past couple of weeks. After such an unseasonably warm period just before. Confusing to both gardener and plants. The low temps look to finally be fading and forecasts for the upcoming week show figures much more agreeable. My beans have been dying to ge...
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08 May 2010
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Figs and Campanula - but where's the sunshine?
Fig Tree - Brown Turkey , Spinach Beets , Pea - Meteor , and Broad Bean - Crimson Flowered (border sown) Sp...Overcast 11°C / 52°FFig tree leaves looking lovely (pic 1). Campanula I bought last year from Tesco’s about to burst back into life (pic 2) Spinach beets (pic 3) and pea meteor (pic 4) doing well. You can also see the border sown broad beans coming through (pic 5). I also sowed a lot more French breakfast radi...
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08 May 2010
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Strawberries planted out and the pea lives!
Poppy - Oriental Dwarf and Sweet Pea - Tall MixedOvercast 11°C / 52°FThe containers are starting to take over the patio.. (pic 1) But I love it :) Poppies are growing really well in their pots – absolutely can’t wait for them to flower (pic 2). Planted out the 5 strawberry plants I bought last weekend from the nursery into the hanging basket (pic 3). T...
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30 Apr 2010Beetroot Sprouting, Spinach Beets Sprouting, Broad Bean - Crimson Flowered (border sown) Sprouting, and Rad...
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Overcast 9°C / 48°FPopped to the local garden nursery before the heavens opened today and bought some perennial herbs including two types of thyme, rosemary, sage as well as oregano and chamomile (pic 1). I bought some lovely small terracotta pots too to put them in. Haven’t had a chance to pot them up yet ...
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30 Apr 2010
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Staking up Plants before the Heavy Rain - and Snail Damage..
Pea - Dorian , Giant Single Sunflower , and Raspberry - TulameenOvercast 9°C / 48°FThe weather forecast for this Bank Holiday weekend was heavy rain and strong winds – typical of a British public holiday. During the couple of hours of sunshine in the morning we had today, I decided to stake up the young giant sunflowers (pic 2 and 3) and Dorian Peas (Mr Big) (pic 1) with ...
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28 Apr 2010Pea Shoots - Bachelor's Dried Peas Harvesting, Lettuce Mixed Salad Sprouting, Rocket - Wild Sprouting, Wate...
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Overcast 15°C / 59°FSome tasty pea shoots with a few radish thinnings. Stirred it into some pasta with tuna – very tasty. You can see post harvest in the second pic. I harvested from the right hand side – still lots left and they should re-grow soon. All from incredibly cheap “mushy-pea” dr...
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27 Apr 2010Strawberry Runners Flowering, Pak Choi Sprouting, Lambs Lettuce Sprouting, and Lettuce - Red Salad Bowl Spr...
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Partly Sunny 17°C / 63°FWork colleagues have had their tender veg braving the outside temperatures for a while now, so I’ve decided to move all the beans and most of the tomato seedlings to the top shelf of the greenhouse (pic 1). I’m sure they’ll be fine as weather is relatively mild now and even if ...
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25 Apr 2010
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Now all the Beans are up and Growing FAST
Runner Bean - Desiree Sprouting, Borlotto Dwarf Sprouting, Dwarf Bean - Purple Teepee Sprouting, Courgette ...Sunny 15°C / 59°FBorlotti (pic 1), Runner Bean Desiree (pic 2) and Purple Teepee (pic 3) all germinated. I suspect these are going to outgrow their toilet roll pots and need potting up pretty soon.. The final of the three types of courgette – All Green Bush – has also sprouted.
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23 Apr 2010
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A Day for Salad & Much Germination
Lambs Lettuce Sown, Lettuce - Red Salad Bowl Sown, Lettuce Mixed Salad Sown, Spinach Beets Sown, Pak Choi S...Sunny 19°C / 66°FMade a lot of salad related sowings today including two types of mixed lettuce, lambs lettuce, watercress, pak choi, spinach beets, rocket and radishes straight in the ground. I also sowed some beetroot in modules even though I said I wouldn’t bother with root veg this year because of the ...
