What Crops are folks now planting?

[Mike J]

I'm probably a bit behind, but I planted my first and second early potatoes yesterday (as it was Good Friday), plus some broad bean plants. I have garlic looking OK after planting in Autumn, plus I am now picking purple sprouting broccoli and curly kale and spinach. Now thinking about sowing carrots, parsnip, and beetroot, leeks, tomatoes, cabbage - there must be more, will have to put my thinking cap on!

[Mike J]

[Duke Ellington]

I have sown my first phase of carrots and beetroot under a cloche at the allotment.  In three weeks I will sown my second phase of the same. Tomorrow I will sow spring onions in modules in the greenhouse. I will also sow broad beans in root trainers. My sweet peppers are ready for potting on. I will also start off some lettuce seeds in the green house.👍🏻😋

[Crystalmoon]

Hi there awful weather here in Kent is holding up my progress at my plot so I am going to sow what I can at home & then pop in a cold frame until it stops raining here. Will be sowing leeks, lettuces, peas this weekend. Glad I got spuds that don't have to go in for a while yet as the clay soil here is way too wet to work with. I've got gooseberry bushes & autumn raspberries to plant...got the fruit bed ready on Friday but torrential rain & very strong winds have stopped me from planting them out.   

[Tee Gee]

I'm still in hibernation and will be for at least another month as far as outdoors is concerned.

Having said that I have quite a bit going on in the greenhouse and cold frames.

For example my tomatoes and peppers are coming along nicely ( not too fast ) my onions and leeks are in the cold frame and I noticed yesterday that my brassicas have germinated so will be pricking them out in a few days time.

But this is typical for me, that is; In the middle of May my plots look quite bare but by the end of the month it looks quite full as if it had been planted out for weeks.

As I see it, it is knowing your soil and prevailing weather patterns that are key, although I would have to say I am now on a big learning curve getting to grips with recent years weather patterns.

So to answer the question ........I have nothing planted out and it will be at least another month before I do!

[johhnyco15]

as teegee said even here on the sunshine coast i will not be planting anything out until mid April we always get a north east wind around the end of march beginning of April that stops anything in its tracks but have loads going on elsewhere  brassicas waiting to be pricked out tomato chilli peppers cucumbers  beetroot lettuce and an array of flowers all waiting in the wings

[picman]

Not really started yet on plot, ground too wet and cold ( Worcestershire ) wanted to do spuds Friday ( as me dad always said to ), perhaps next week, after all this egg nonsense is over .

[Vinlander]

I went to the plot on Friday because it was a really nice day.

I intended to plant something - but when I realised it was Good Friday my cliché alarm got so persistent that I just pottered about in the sun.

Nice.

Cheers.

[cornykev]

Planted earlies last weekend 6 of them under a cloche
This weekend I've sowed: Carrots, Beetroot, Spring Onions and Parsnips direct
In the greenhouse I've sowed Cucumbers in bottomles buckets
Tommies were sown indoors in Feb and are between 5 and 8 inches high. 

[Jayb]

It's been very wet here, haven't really got started at all yet, especially with this last bout of weather, fingers crossed for blue skies and 

[cornykev]

Sowed sweetcorn today.   

[saddad]

I have already direct sown golden beet, rocket and parsnips and the first two are through...
 

[Robert_Brenchley]

Loads of true potato seed today, which is all sitting in pots on the windowsill. I haven't done any direct planting.

[Jeannine]

Pretty much everything is in here now except the really warm weather stuff.

[Deb P]

The radishes I sowed a couple of weeks ago are through, so are two rows of carrots; no protection at all. Parsnips went in the same time but no show yet. I don't sow my sweetcorn until May, they get pressed into the surface of rootrainers, and get planted out three weeks later as they grow without a check. I did go to the plot yesterday with t he intention of planting out my sweet peas, but it was cold and windy and by the time I had one frame netted and ready I'd had enough!

[saddad]

Our sweet peas are still lurking... but I have dug over the bed for them...

[Jeannine]

Perfect way to do corn Deb, they hate to be moved so doing the three week only thing fools them.

Boo Hoo I don't have room for corn now..having said that my area is one of the biggest corn growers so we find it sold on every street corner picked fresh every day and it's as cheap as chips so I really don't know why I am boo hooing. I just miss watching it grow I think.

XX Jeannine

[Deb P]

I remember before I got my plot, I grew sweetcorn in half barrels at home, stuck in six and got a crop the squirrels enjoyed enormously........

[Jeannine]

Deb, I have a neighborhood rat that likes to eat tomatoes, but do you know the little devil is a connoisseur, he is very particular as to taste and ripeness.