How is your planting season going so far?

Started by Sparkly, April 05, 2008, 19:39:28

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Sparkly

Jan - onions from seed, leeks from seed and aubergine
Feb - sweet peas, chillies, broad beans, celosia, parsley, peanut,
March - tomatoes, more chillies, peas, carrots,
April - more tomatoes and chillies! shallot, radish, spinach, beetroot, lettuce, spring onions, brussels, cauli, marigolds, cabbage, pumpkin, winter squash and sweetcorn

Most of these are in toliet rolls plugs, trays or pots either indoors or in a coldframe. The carrots, spinach and radish are direct into raised beds in the garden. The squash and sweetcorn are chitting in moist paper. The shallots are the the only veg that has directly been sown into the plot. We also have garlic and over-wintered onions doing well. We haven't managed to get out early potatoes in yet as we are still clearning the area. Hopefully tommorrow we shall get those sorted!

Sparkly


posie

So far, I have put 1 row of 1st early spuds in and 1 row of Early Nantes carrots.  I've got parsnips germinating.  Little Gem lettuce out in the cold frame, 2 sowings of onions from seed, beetroot, sprouts, herbs, strawberries, tomatoes and a few other bits and pieces.  They're all in an unheated greenhouse at the moment until the frosts are over and I can get them in the ground!
What I lack in ability and experience, I make up for in sheer enthusiasm!!!

SMP1704

Slowly.

At the allotment, the onions are in, so are the early and main crop potatoes.  Overwintered broad beans are doing well and just put out some pot grown bb's for a bit of succession.  In today are early onward peas.  Overwintered cauliflowers are showing promise.  Still have module sown beetroot and spinach to plant out.

I feel I'm behind with sowing my carrots - each weekend I plan to do, snow is forecast for the following week ???

Mid April I will sow Sweetcorn and french beans and parsnips - hopefully by then it will have stopped snowing ;D
Sharon
www.lifeonalondonplot.com

star

Shallots, carrots, JA's, potatoes, garlic and leeks (from last year), in the ground. Marigolds, tomatoes, peppers, chillis, Nicandra, thanks Amazin, Antirrhinums, busy lizzies, dill and Convolulus in the house and greenhouse. Sweet peas, kale, onions, leeks, chard, flat leaved parsley, garlic chives.....not germinating :( in the cold frame.


Strewth thats more than I thought when its all written down  :-\ :D
I was born with nothing and have most of it left.

manicscousers

just frightened myself at the thought, in the ground..white, yellow, red onions, garlic, ordinary and elephant, under fleece, all the spuds, in the hot box, 2 different carrots and radish, covered, 5 different carrots, strawberries being forced under plastic, in the poly, lettuce, chinese leaves, radish finishing,
protected in the poly, 4 different tomatoes, 3 different peppers, cucumbers and melons, including watermelons, thanks to Tora, cabbages, sprouts, herbs..
at home, 5 different beans, 32 sweetcorn, chinese gooseberries,
good grief  ;D

kt.

Not as far on as I would like  due to all this wet weather.
All you do and all you see is all your life will ever be

powerspade

Earlies spuds and maincrop in, onions and shallots also broad beans. Cabbage in modules Parsnips in toilet rolls and that about it at the moment.
Plenty of time yet got to wait fro the ground to warm up a little more before carrots etc

Miss Fenella

terrible - it's snowing atm and I have not put any seeds in and won't until it warms up a bit and stops being quite so sodden.  ::)

I did buy a few cauli plants at the nursery the other day and popped those in because I was desperate to do something!
the dandelion clocks won't strike......

cambourne7

not amazing onions and garlic is in, i planted carrots and parsnips under closh which blew away so they have not germinated. Potatoes are in the front room waiting to be planted. Tomatos, courgette, pumpkin and peas/beans are all in the outside greenhouse waiting to be planted out.

Not holding much hope out for this year.

Robert_Brenchley

Not much in at all. I was very late ordering my spuds, and they haven't come yet. I was planning to plant the onions today, but woke to an inch of snow. I've got quite a lot in pots, but so far the only thing I've planted in open ground is asparagus. Plants do catch up from a late spring though, so I'm not worrying.

saddad

Slow here too.. Got the Onions out and BB's Started planting the spuds... greenhouses bulging with stuff and Frames chocked up with small plants and today we have snow!!
::)

Oldhippy

We`ve got snow here too! My broad beans are about four inches tall and now they`ve got a cap of snow on them. Will it hurt them? What should I do?

saddad

They'll be fine OldHippy they can survive worse than that... now if they were a foot tall and had an inch of snow pulling them over a gentle shake would help but this will have melted away by dinnertime..
;D

Oldhippy


Biscombe

#14
Our Spanish farmhouse veg plot so far.....................

Got a full sack of red Pontiac's spuds in the ground!
Harvesting broad beans, lettuce, and cut and come again, chard, some leeks nearly ready.
Garlic not bulbing yet. onions in.
Got 40 tomatoes 3 courgette, 3 pattypan and 3 other bush squash that I can remember the name of, kohl Rabi,  bush beans, beetroot, pac choi, cauli broc and red cabbage, all in the ground.
40 varieties of chili are in pots outside (over 60 to go!) then the same in the ground, so I'll have 2 of each variety.
Soft fruit going great guns, tayberries are flowering like mad, redcurrants, blackberry and raspberry have good growth but are not flowering yet! Kiwis planted (5 female, 2 male)
Globe artichokes look about ready to flower.
Lemon trees are packed full of fruit but the oranges are getting dry. Nisperos are nearly ready. Avocados all need harvesting.
Olives were good this year, we got 25 litres of oil enough for the year.
Vine squash waiting to go out
Melon, cukes, fennel waiting to be born!
Sweetcorn and more tomatoes going in today

Gosh! when you type it seems like a hell of a lot!!

Really sorry for those of you with the crappy weather, not long to go now, hope you get a long enough growing season.

Froglegs

Not much a bed of early spuds,onions,and parsnips. But now the days are longer will soon catch up ...i hope. :-\.............or move nextdoor to Biscombe. ;D

Biscombe

Hehehehe!! seems like 2 full time jobs at the moment though!

cornykev

Snowing here too Hippy as Saddad says snow problem, my broadies are about the same height as yours, also I have planted earlies, shallots, onions, red, yellow and jap, sowed parsnips and carrots direct. I still have cabbages, PSB, parsnips and carrots in the ground. Rhubarb started sprouting a couple of weeks ago, indoors sowed Derby cabbage, peppers, toms, celery, celeriac, melon, squash and carnations, also have sweet potatoes on the go.  ;D ;D ;D
MAY THE CORN BE WITH YOU.

Lindsay

Potatoes in the ground and just starting to show through, onions and garlic in ground looking good
Broad beans and peas both flowering and pods starting to form!
First sowing of carrots and radishes successful - ate my first radish yesterday
Parsnips in loo rolls germinated and going out this week, some sown direct in ground also germinated!
Strawberries flowering like crazy - managed to find one ripe strawberry so far
Three courgette plants in ground as of yesterday
Various squash plants waiting in the cold frame, along with more parsnips (I intend eating parsnips next winter!) 
Lots of tomato plants inside (peppers and chilli plants too) waiting for room in the cold frame
Kale, brussel sprouts, kohl rabi and red cabbage waiting inside (cos I don't know where to put them!)

Fortunately, the weather has been good to us here.  - I have heard that the summer in England this year will be one of the longest and hottest, when it arrives!   :)


GodfreyRob

Well last week I managed to get onto the garden and clear off winter crops and a few weeds that had popped up. Then its frost and snow again and I have a whole backlog of plants in pots queing up to be planted out. The greenhouse is full up too - may have to risk planting out under cloches just to make some space for the next batch of sowing.
On the bright side my toms are looking really healthy so far!
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