Topic: Whats in,not in on the lottie/greenhouse

[Jeannine]

I find it fascinating how we all do things at differnt times so I thought I would start an update thred

Lottie, strawberry bed is cleaned out and ready to go.
Asparagus harvesting nicely
Rasps all tied in,soft fruit bushes all ready to go
Rhubarb being harvested regularly now.
All potatoes in
Shallotts/garlic all in coming up good
Parsnips coming on well
All squash into 1 gallon containers in cool greenhouse waiting to go out
Onions in 3"pots in cold area.
All,brassicas,cauli,calabrese, 2 types of spouts,5 kinds of cabbage planted out now
Swedes all to 5 inches in foliage looking good out on lottie
Globe Artichokes up 2 feet now
Broad beans about 1 foot tall starting with flowers,
Beet seeds, carrot seeds and spring onion seeds in raised bed.
Melons ready to go in 1 gallon pots, to stay in warm yet though
Peppers and ubergines in 3 inch pots.
Tomatoes moved to 1 gallon pots today.
Leeks still in 1 container
Parsley ready to go in garden now  6 inches high
Still to seed, some beans, corn and a few oddments
Cukes ready to go into 1 gallon pots.

Okra standing still doing nothing since it got to 4 inche ages ago!!!


All in all a good year so far for me, bang on track so far for me..

XX Jeannine

[Mrs Ava]

You are WAY ahead of my Jeannine!

On the plot, Strawberry bed all weeded and first flowers open!

Kestrel spuds in and through, Int. Kidney in.  Lady Christl, pink fur apple, Annabel and another I can't remember still to go in.

Shallots, onions, garlic all growing very well

Sowed on the plot, peas, parsnips, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, rocket, spring onions & turnips.

In the greenhouse I have caulis, PSB, WSB, cabbage, courgette, a few squashes, cucumbers, lettuce, beetroot, sweetcorn, spinach, chard, leeks, onions, celeriac, swedes, and flowers.  ;D (probably forgotten something there...)

In the conservatory I have tomatoes, chillis, sweet peppers and aubergines.

Still have masses of sowing to do, but it is still only the start of April.  By the time the kids go back next week, I hope to have mostly what I need sown under cover done.

[MacArthur Park]

Wow :o
I feel I should get up the lottie now and plant something!! ;D
I was wondering when to put out my brassicas - I've PSB, and 2 types of  sprouts. Then I went to B&Q for something and noticed the ones they were selling were twice the size of mine. :-[ Do you think I should plant them out or leave them in the greenhouse a bit longer? They're about 3-4 inches high.
I've also got strawberries, asparagus planted last week, Jerusalem artichokes, broad beans autumn and spring sown, peas ditto, spring onions, beetroot, parsnip and radish growing on the lottie. Plus toms x2, aubergine, sweet pepper, chili pepper, lettuce, leeks, carrots, celeriac, rocket, mixed salad and artichoke seedlings in the greenhouse.  :oThat's way more than I realised - maybe I don't need to scuttle off to the lottie till morning!! ;) ;D

[Wicker]

Here goes, Jeannine

On the lottie:-
FIRST asparagus spear showing!
rhubarb being picked regularly - lovely
cherries in flower
blackcurrants/red currants/rasps all green and leafy
strawberries bulking up nicely - in fact one was trying to flower today

shallots, onions and red onions all showing green growth
no sign of first sowing of spring onions (many more to follow)
first sowings of spring turnips showing (another sowing to do)
first sowing of beetroot not showing yet (2 more sowings to go)
parsnips not showing yet
Little Gem not showing under fleece, mixed leaves still to be sown
first sowing of mangetout showing, no sign of 2nd - 3rd to go in yet
first sowing of peas not thru yet, 2nd sowing in a week/10 days
Potatoes: Lady Christl, Charlotte, Maris Peer and Maris Piper all planted - leaving King Edward for another week or so
second season parsley thriving

In the g'house:
tomatoes all coming along nicely (Sungold, Ferline and another ?) - potting on tomorrow
brussels, calabrese, cabbage, cauliflower all coming along nicely in modules
french climbing beans in modules and starting to show
Little Gem lettuce in trays just starting to show
no sign of melons in modules
no sign of butternut squash in modules
sweetcorn sowing individually into 4" pots tomorrow

carrots to be sown later (bed already sanded and fed)
leeks will be sown in big pot later and swedes go in after early potatoes are lifted, winter brassicas will be sown in modules later

Odd plants of courgettes, barlottis, herbs etc etc will be acquired by barter!!

I'll post this and then remember something else..........

[mc55]

in the ground:

Hispi cabbages in the ground, 2 good, strong rows of peas.  Sweetpeas in final planting position.  Garlic, Japanese onions & shallots in / looking good.  Broadbeans about 1' high and in flower, strawberries in flower, artichokes - enormous, rhubarb now cropping, herbs overwintered & looking good, early potatoes in (rocket & charlotte), pink fur apple & cara to plant this week.  Beetroot, carrots & parsnips all sown direct this week.  Raspberries leafing up, jerusalem artichokes just poking through the surface (I think).  Bindweed, thistles and dandelions in full production.  Blueberry leafing up.  Apple tree leafing up (but I'm going to dig it up).  Remains of last seasons leeks ...

in the potting shed:

Tomatoes x 4 varieties now with 5th leaf just developing.  5 x aubergines, still only 2 leaves.  Peppers x 5 varieties, still only 2 leaves.  Cauliflowers at 4 leaves, will go in ground soon hopefully.  Melons x 3 varieties all arrived, squashes & pumpkins sown this week, 6 sweetcorn survived the mice from original sowing.  Courgettes sown this week, leeks waiting to be transplanted.  Ox Eye Daisies, verbena, sunflowers (x 40 !), poppies, violas and snap dragons all germinated.  Marigolds on 5th leaves.  No sign yet of scaribous (?) or Echinacea.

at home

sweetcorn - 2nd sowing to beat the mice, 3rd sowing of broadbeans (to beat the mice, but 2nd sowing has just arrived on the plot).  Sweet potato slips (x 17 if they all fulfill their potential).

[saddad]

All 30 Kg of Spuds in, 8 Swift to put in today on Show Lottie (!) Sweet peas to go out this week. Putting some Parsnips out today and some sacrificial chard... (they never manage to eat it all...) Onion and Garlic family all out but no sign of Asparagus yesterday...
First batch of peas up but not out yet...
 ;D

[Tee Gee]

Only Potatoes,Onions & Shallots in, but my other stuff is coming along quite nicely for planting out next month!

[Jitterbug]

Thanks goodness TeeGee

I was starting to feel so inadequate....  :-[ :-\  like I had missed the bus or something - but then again I'm using a certain Gardeners Almanac ;)

However, my list is as follows - my onions and garlic went in last Autumn and are looking really good, the broad beans are approx 4ft high with quite a few flowers, no sign of the JA's yet, have got 3 rows of FE and 2 rots of SE potatoes in and also got the asparagus crowns in over the week-end.  The two rows of parnips that I pregerminated don't look too promising and the lettuce and rocket seed that I catch cropped with it also has been a no show, the beetroot is coming up and I think the early nantes carrots.  No sign of the spring onions though.  Will double check this evening when I go water. Where are the April showers!! my arms are killing me carry the watering can.

On the window sill I have about 6 varieties of sweet peppers / chilli's /aji peppers on the go, about 8 varieties of tomatoes ready to prick out, the cabbages went to the blue lottie in the sky followed by the brussel sprouts in quick succession, my raspberries, red currants and black currants are starting to sprout green shoots, the poor apple tree that we hacked to death even has some blossoms on, the daffodils are all dead, the rhubarb is starting to cheer up some so all in all - not so inadequate at all. 

However still need to get my pumpkin and squash seeds planted and guess what - two parcels are winging their way to me as we speak so watch this space... ;D ;D

Jitterbug

[Tee Gee]

I'm using a certain Gardeners Almanac

Ah!! that might explain my progress as well  ::)

However still need to get my pumpkin and squash seeds planted

Mines will be sown tomorrow, we are baby sitting the granchildren (school hols) and as the pumpkins are grown for them I will let them sow them.

Last week they sowed my French beans and they have germinated so this will please them.

[cleo]

Hundreds of tomato plants waiting in the greenhouses ;D-first delivery Friday morning so that will be 50 on their way.Also cus,peppers,melons,aubergines and okra

Polytunnel packed with stuff waiting to go out and in the ground-shallots,peas,mange tout,parsnips,beetroot,radish,kohl rabi,spuds,salsify scorzonera spinach and coriander -oh and overwintered broad beans and PSB

[Jeannine]

Added my beets, carrotts, turnips and spring onions today plus a few more parsnip seeds today in a raised bed, and filled another one with peas.

Xx Jeannine.

Got to get those bean seeds started though

[ChrisH]

So far I have planted out;

Jerusalem Artichokes
Potatoes – Desiree, Pentland Dell, Lady Christl, Bonnie, International Kidney
Carrots (2 varieties)
Beetroot (2 varieties)
Parsnip (2 varieties)
Spring Onions
Lettuce
Radishes (mixed)
Kohl Rabi (3 varieties)
Salsify
Texel greens
Turnip (mini)
Chives
Garlic Chives
Peas
Mangetout Peas
Shallots
Onions (red + white from bulbs)
Garlic

Growing in trays;

Sweetcorn
Leeks (2 varieties)
Courgette
Swede (2 varieties)
Tomatoes
Celeriac
Cucumber
Swiss Chard (2 varieties)
Basil
Basil Lime
Chervil
Indian Mustard
Thyme
Parsley
Coriander

And with no greenhouse this year I just hope I don’t get a late frost.

[dandelion]

On the plot:
Potatoes: Lady Christl, Red Duke of York, Nicola, Desiree, Pink Fir Apple and Bonnie
Spinach
Rocket
Mizuna
Oriental saladini
Radish
Turnips
Salad Bowl lettuces
leeks
Barletta onions
Nantes carrots (just coming up)

In my back garden:
Garlic

In assorted seed trays/plugs/origami pots in my South facing front garden:
More lettuces and leeks
Savoy cabbages
Beetroot
Spring onions
French marigolds


In the porch:
Blauhilde beans (not germinated yet)


On a sunny window sill:
Tomatoes (4 varieties)
Aubergines (growing very nicely!)
Sweet peppers and chilli peppers
6 different winter squashes
Patty pan and Kousa courgettes
Melons (not germinated yet)
2 outdoor cucumbers
Sunflowers (not germinated yet)

Here's a picture of the window with double parked trays of seedlings!

Feeling very envious of all who have greenhouses or polytunnels!

[Eristic]

On the plot.

4 var Garlic
2 var Shallot
3 var Onion sets
2 var Broad bean
2 var Globe artichike
Jerusalems
Oka
3 var Pea
Grapes
Parsnip (Not up yet)
Carrot
Radish
Chard
Beetroot
Spring onion

At home as seedlings.

2 var Tomato
Aubergine
2 var Courgette
2 var Pepper
Celery
Cabbage Primo
Cauliflower
P Sprouting Broccoli
Runner beans

Out of space with plenty more seeds to plant.

[MrsKP]

Tomatoes moved to 1 gallon pots today.

d**n !  how big is a gallon pot !  have i been scrabbling around for 5 inchers when i could have stuck them straight in their buckets ??

 :o

[allaboutliverpool]

I am busy taking a photograph of everything that I do in the hope that I can put them on my website and build up an infallible answer to all the do's and don'ts regarding vegetable growing. I also put my crop rotation on a spreadsheet.
At the age of 61, with a digital camera and computer I am like a kid with a new toy and envy the youngsters who have a whole life ahead of them.
The only phtographic record of my past before 2001 when I bought a digital camera is snapshots of people.

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments2_my_allotment_in_liverpool.html

[Marymary]

This thread got me thinking ... let me see ....

In raised beds
Autumn Raspberries - new canes lots of leaves
Summer Cabbage
Kohl Rabi
Carrots - sown direct just showing
Parsnips - sown in loo rolls doing well
Peas
Broad beans about 2 foot - no flowers
Japanese onions
Garlic
White & red onions - all sprouting
Potatoes, Bonnie [seems we all got them free from T&M, Charlotte & Lady C planted Good Friday
Swift in pots - all up
Rhubarb - moved this year so not cropping
Asparagus crowns - newly planted not showing yet
Strawberries [early ones in pots in greenhouse flowering]
Overwintering leaves - still cropping
Raddish - ready to eat
Globe artichokes - doing well
JA - experiment in a big pot!


in greenhouse
35 tomatoes - some in plugs some in 3" pots
25 squashes, pumpkins & melons [where am I going to put them all?!!]
Lots of flowers
Lettuce - all year round & Pablo - nearly ready to cut - lollo & endive doing well
Raddish
Leeks in big pot
Spring onions
Asparagus peas
Salsify

still to plant - cuecumbers, beans, corn, brassicas

[MrsKP]

OK, visually walk round the garden, from the top

prepared bed for the courgettes
two rhubarb plants moved this year, no cropping
aquathingy broadbeans, planted last autumn, tallest about 2' plenty of flowers
green windsor bbs, still small and stumpy, no flowers
twinkle and meteor peas (twinkle half chewed, meteor going well) both with blooms

lets move on to:

garlic bed, solent white interspersed with red baron onions.  garlic yellowing but seems to be doing ok.  onions surviving.
lettuce/radish bed.  just starting to crop now
strawberry bed, under fleece.  looking good but not flowering

big over wintered onion bed (can't remember the two varieties - sadly grim).  hoping for great things if the weather ever warms up.  planted some bare patches with red baron.  purple solent garlic, looking ok.

g/h 1 - parmex carrits doing lovely in a pot
lots of annuals and left over beetroot seedlings that i haven't planned where to put them yet
5 repotted toms that are too big to stay inside

g/h 2 - lilies going mad and more annuals

carrit bed/bath - Early Nantes just showing, Chardenay just sown

whisky barrel - beet under cloches

SS JAs not showing but tenderly loved and cared for. 

in pots:

cherry stella
granny smiths
cox orange pippens
bramley

all in bud

blackcurrant (one stick out of 4 in bud)
redcurrant - stick
raspberry canes - sticks
blueberries - 2 varieties nicely in bud
gooseberries - nicely green

aubs/toms/cukes/chillies/peppers still all over the hoos along with various courgettes and 'erbs.

luvvin it !

 ;D

[Jeannine]

Hey  we are doing OK eh?  first year I am not behind XX Jeannine

[Sparkly]

On the plot I have:

3 rhubarb crowns and raspberry canes newly planted
3 lots of potatoes in
Small row of broad beans about 2ft high (no flowers)
2 rows of parsnips (not showing)
2 rows of carrots (not showing)
2 rows of beetroot (not showing)
2 rows of shallots just about sprouting green shoots

today I am planning to put in:
broad beans straight into the ground
lots of peans straight into the ground


in the living room!!!!! I have (in pots)

about 5 varieties of tomatoes doing very well (20-30cm tall)
5 varieties of chillies all doing well too
Tray of leeks about 3 inches tall
3 types of squash (3 of each) - a jsut hoping to get 1 good plant of each) - not showing yet
3 courguettes - again not showing yet!
6 giant sunflowers - about 2 inches tall
calabresse x 5 - only about 2 inches tall but seem to be doing ok
6 cauli - not doing well at all - just about dead (oh dear!)

today I am planning to sow some outdoor cucumbers

in the garden in 3" pots - lots of peas, 2 types of french beans, and more broad beans - were not showing as of yesterday
in large pots - radish (have come through), little gem lettuce, spinach, strawberries (alpine) - very small still, overwintered - chives, parsley, mint, tarragon and rosemary
in a nursery bed (very recently sown - more cauli, pointed cabbage and swede)

still have to plant runner beans