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!
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!
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
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
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
Not as far on as I would like due to all this wet weather.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!!
::)
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?
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
Phew! Thanks :)
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.
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
Hehehehe!! seems like 2 full time jobs at the moment though!
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
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! :)
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!
So far I've got early and maincrop spuds, onions, shallots, garlic, broad beans and lettuce in the ground - although the lettuce has only just germinated and wasn't covered by fleece so may not be there after sitting under the snow yesterday. Have also just sown several drills of Kelvedon Wonder peas. In the greenhouse I've got pots of brussels sprouts, cauliflower, calabrese and sweet peas waiting to go out. And I've just sown several pots of tomatoes and chilli peppers.
Cheers,
Rob ;)
I've put in early/second Early's last week was going to put in main crop now on hold till weather improves also put in broad beans. plus onions red/brown sets (which i started off in greenhouse) there do in great! got caulis cabbage sprouts spring onions leeks courgettes green/yellow cucumber autumn celabrese all waiting in g/house. going to do peppers/toms various when its bit warmer. also want to put in peas/mangetout runner beans radish various. beetroot various .turnip parsnip lettuce various .runner-beans. fruitwise rhubarb doing OK gooseberry coming on red/black currents coming on pear nectarine cherry all young trees this year but doing OK some list didnt realise how much till put it on here!
on target generally with spuds, broad beans, peas, g/h full with masses of seedlings but still waiting to get maincrop spuds and onions in - weather delays more than anything else and will resist the temptation to sow beans, corn and the cucurbits for awhile yet