5 courgettes (3 black beauty, 1 tondo di toscana, 1 gold rush) and 4 cucumbers (2 marketmore, 1 marketer, 1 mini-white) are ready to be potted on
3 yellow scallop squash and 3 jack o'lantern pumpkins are ready to be planted out
Monday 2 May 2011
Cucurbits
Cucurbits are taking over the greenhouse; I have a newly germinated all green bush courgette and gherkin, both sown on Easter Sunday
3 newly germinated outdoor wonder melons, sown on Easter Saturday. I'm still waiting for the hunter squash to put in an appearance
5 courgettes (3 black beauty, 1 tondo di toscana, 1 gold rush) and 4 cucumbers (2 marketmore, 1 marketer, 1 mini-white) are ready to be potted on
3 yellow scallop squash and 3 jack o'lantern pumpkins are ready to be planted out
I have already planted out an all green bush courgette and 2 slangen longoda cucumbers
5 courgettes (3 black beauty, 1 tondo di toscana, 1 gold rush) and 4 cucumbers (2 marketmore, 1 marketer, 1 mini-white) are ready to be potted on
3 yellow scallop squash and 3 jack o'lantern pumpkins are ready to be planted out
Legumes
My first sowing of mange tout have been planted out into one of the new raised beds in the front garden
They were joined by my first sowing of delikata peas in a reusable growbag
French beans had a bit of a shaky start; I sowed 10 each of delinel and gold dukkat just over a week ago and left them on the staging in the greenhouse... the next morning I came down to this
I suspect it was a mouse as they tend to go for these types of seeds... I posted a quick query on the veggie forum to see if fellow gardeners agreed with my suspicions and some people suggest chitting the seeds before sowing or covering them in something that mice don't like e.g. mustard or paraffin!!
Anyway, once I got over the fact that there had been a mouse (or mice) in my greenhouse, I popped the damaged ones back in the modules and added a new seed to each, before moving them into the potting shed on a higher shelf (just in case).
It didn't take long for them to germinate and some of the damaged ones have also survived as some of the modules have 2 seedlings poking out
I thought I may as well do another sowing of all legumes, so a couple of days later resowed all of the above along with old faithful cherokee trail of tears; these are also pushing their heads out of the compost in record time
They were joined by my first sowing of delikata peas in a reusable growbag
French beans had a bit of a shaky start; I sowed 10 each of delinel and gold dukkat just over a week ago and left them on the staging in the greenhouse... the next morning I came down to this
Anyway, once I got over the fact that there had been a mouse (or mice) in my greenhouse, I popped the damaged ones back in the modules and added a new seed to each, before moving them into the potting shed on a higher shelf (just in case).
It didn't take long for them to germinate and some of the damaged ones have also survived as some of the modules have 2 seedlings poking out
I thought I may as well do another sowing of all legumes, so a couple of days later resowed all of the above along with old faithful cherokee trail of tears; these are also pushing their heads out of the compost in record time
Potatoes
I sowed my main crop potatoes over the Easter / Bank Holiday period; desiree, which I have never tried before. They are in potato sacks like the earlier sown spuds, which have already pushed through the soil.
These are the charlottes, which will need topping up with compost soon
And these are the sharpe's express, which I have topped up since taking the photos
These are the charlottes, which will need topping up with compost soon
And these are the sharpe's express, which I have topped up since taking the photos
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