I was hoping there would be more than two parts to my Bank Holiday Weekend gardening activities, but the bad weather has continued; yesterday it rained more or less constantly, and when it did let up there was a very cold wind blowing round the garden. Today has been better; there is still a chill in the air but the sun has come out every now and again. Nevertheless, over the course of the weekend I have been able to do a few more bits and pieces.
The jack o' lanterns have been planted out into reusable growbags.
I'll probably put squash in between them, once they are ready to go out.
I've planted out my beetroot (boltardy) plugs into a wicker planter and sowed some more undercover, and have continued sowing like there's no tomorrow; broccoli (psb & raab), cauliflower (all year round), pak choi (red choi), fennel (di firenze), chicory (radicchio palla rosso precoce), turnip (purple top milan) are all in small pots in the potting shed.
Outdoors sowings consist of a row of swede (best of all) in a raised bed with some previously planted out brassicas, and four types of radish (cherry belle, prinz rotin, french breakfast and hilds blauer herbst und winter) in a bulb crate.
The final batch of potatoes (rooster) have also been planted into potato sacks.
In the greenhouse I potted on the okra plants.
And finally, I purchased some sweet pepper (bellboy) and chilli pepper (apache) plants from the garden centre. I still haven't given up on the idea of germinating my own from seed even though my last (and was going to be final) attempt in the heated propagator only produced one chilli shake, and time is running out if they are going to have a long enough season to fruit and ripen. Might just give it one more go?!
As with most bank holiday weekends, the forecasters predict wet weather and it's started already. I was only outside for a couple of hours this morning before the heavens opened.
I did get a few bits done though; planted out 8 minipop plants into the raised bed.
The rest of the bed will be used for full size sweetcorn (Double Standard Bicolor) which I sowed in small pots in the greenhouse today.
I also planted out an all green bush and 2 yellow scallops into a recently purchased reusable growbag, which for the record take ages and a lot of soil / compost to fill (and I have a load more for the rest of the outdoor cucurbits).
I also potted on a few of the smaller cucurbits; 4 mini whites and 2 gherkins which aren't ready to go out yet. I really want to get the pumpkin plants into their outdoor positions this weekend so I'm hoping the rain will let up so that I can get back out there.
