Leylandii's journal
Member since: Mar 09 | Last seen: Oct 10 | Years gardening: 1 | Organic gardener
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26 Mar 2010
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Raspberry canes planted, toms sprouted and pots mulched
Raspberry - Tulameen Planting Out, Poppy - Oriental Dwarf Mulching, Evening Primrose Mulching, Tumbling Tom...Overcast 12°C / 54°FThe Tulameen Raspberry canes arrived at my work a few days ago. Yesterday I went to Homebase and got a couple of 36cm diameter wooden half barrel pots to plant 3 canes each in trained up bamboo canes in a wigwam shape. I think they should look beautiful when in full leaf and fruit, even if the...
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25 Mar 2010
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Bees about, radishes germinated and lilac sprouts from goji berry twigs
Radish - Riesenbutter Sprouting, Radish - Saxa 2 Sprouting, Goji Berries Sprouting, and Radish - French Bre...Partly Sunny 12°C / 54°FCheck out this busy dusty critter on what I think is a peony flower (pic1) Also, 2 out of the 3 types of radishes have germinated – interesting to see its the cheaper two brands from Lidl that beat the T&M seeds (pic 2 & 3) Also, gorgeous lilac sprout from my goji twigs (pic 4). Bu...
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20 Mar 2010
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Sunflowers, Tomatoes, Aubergines, Chillies, Sweet Peas, Peas, Sweet Peppers Sown
Tomato - Minibel Sown, Tomato Roma Sown, Tumbling Tom - Red Sown, Tumbling Tom - Yellow Sown, Aubergine Cal...Partly Sunny 13°C / 55°FFirst proper batch of sowing of the year – excitement. Sunflowers (mini and giant single) in peat pots in the greenhouse. Climbing Sweet Peas in toilet rolls in greenhouse (pic 1) All the tomatoes, chillies, sweet peppers, aubergines in propagators inside the study (pic 2) Hanging basket sw...
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17 Mar 2010
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Evening Primrose / Oriental Poppies sown last Spring potted up & Radishes Sown
Radish - French Breakfast Sown, Radish - Riesenbutter Sown, Radish - Saxa 2 Sown, Evening Primrose Potting ...Partly Sunny 13°C / 55°FFirst journal entry of this year! These did well over the harsh winter. I had sort of forgotten about them and wasn’t expecting too much – I had never sowed a perennial from seed before so wasn’t sure what to expect. The evening primrose looked like bits of twig over winter but ...
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08 Aug 2009
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Toms Ripening & some picked, along with some Sweet Peppers
Tomato Tumbling Tom Harvesting, "Sweet" Mini Red Pepper Harvesting, and Tiny Tim Tomato HarvestingSunny 21°C / 70°F -
01 Aug 2009Cayenne Pepper Harvesting
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Partly Sunny 21°C / 70°FNine (I think) chillies harvested from one of the cayenne plants and given to my mum. Think I need to start using chillies at a higher rate than I currently am as they’re not getting harvested enough! Hoping some of them will riped to red – that would look pretty spectacular on the p...
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31 Jul 2009
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Harvest No.11 - Birthday Beans
Runner Bean Dwarf Hestia Harvesting11 more runner beans harvested for part of my birthday meal :)Rainy 17°C / 63°F -
25 Jul 2009Tomato Tumbling Tom and Runner Bean Dwarf Hestia Harvesting
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Partly Sunny 21°C / 70°F11 great sized tasty and fresh runner beans harvested and sliced up as part of a delicious meal. Also, tomatoes looking pretty hot – mmmm. I can see one today JUST starting to get some colour :)
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19 Jul 2009
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Harvest No.9 - Pak Choi (again) and 8 Strawberries
Pak Choi Harvesting and Strawberry Runners HarvestingCut down the remaining 2 pak choi. Left a few of the bottom leaves on to see if it will ‘come again’, although I don’t think pak choi does that. Today it went into a delicious Thai salad. Eight strawberries were ready to pick today – varying sizes and a few of them were ...18°C / 64°F -
18 Jul 2009
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Harvest No.8 (Pak Choi + Cayenne Pepper) and Beans Tied Up
Pak Choi Harvesting, Cayenne Pepper Harvesting, Runner Bean Dwarf Hestia , and Chilli Pepper Potting UpCloudy 18°C / 64°FMy boyfriend cooked up a mean pad thai tonight – we decided dinner had to include some pak choi because two of the plants were trying to bolt. So two of the four pak choi plants were cut down, chopped up and are now in my belly – mmm. The cayenne plants are fruiting spectacularly ...
