Monday, May 28, 2012

Growing well

I have done a lot of tidying up the last week and finally pulled up my purple sprouting broccoli and prepared the bed for the roots ill be planting.
I also managed to cover the brassica bed with my own compost from all last year.
I've cleared the weeds from my fruit bush cage and ill finish it off this week and mulch with well rotted manure.
some pic's here are my grapes showing, first signs of my asparagus, my newly planted olive and fig tree's and my herb bed filling up.
Plus some pic's in the green house, and a big Bumble Bee on my Kale flowers.



















Friday, May 18, 2012

Last Monday i planted on my chilies and then cleared my paths for the new wood chippings.
also i was given some Dwarf Kale so i planted that to see what they are like.
a few pic's again.











Monday, May 7, 2012

Well i am a little late with this as most of what i am about to put on here was last Monday.
I took a day off and managed to get loads done.
I planted out peas and covered with fleece to protect from, mostly birds and mice.
I had already hardened off my broadbeans so they went out against a nice frame of canes which Monty Don showed in the last gardeners world show.
It was quite impressive with the vertical and horizontal supports i could nearly swing on it.
Last year i had several wind blown down issues so i will stick to this design from now on.
Then i planted out my comfrey seedlings so i have a good collection of this to make my own plant feed next year.
My Grape vines were bent in the single guyut position so this was quite daunting as they make a right creak when bending them over.
Cant wait to see if i get grapes this year.
My next task was to get my rosemary cuttings out and i was very impressed they had rooted so well they were busting out of the pots.
Also last week i harvested some purple sprouting broccoli and when i got home i par boiled it and froze most of it, the rest i have with my evening meal, very tasty too.
This week i have just potted on my chilies i got from Rhodes, Greece and my 3 cape gooseberry's.
then i potted on some very small rocket.
I have decided i will put all the salads out in a couple of weeks under glass in my new salad bed.
next i planed out my mixed Daisy and fed them well (these will make great cut flowers for home).
oh and i slug pelleted everywhere.
my 3 sunflowers went out due to them keep drying out, they were not hardened off but i am worried they will die if they don't get the rain.
Also i managed to attach my new (freeby from the next plot owner Eddie) water barrels, that makes 5 from the shed, i really need to sort the greenhouse one.
And finally i brought home my hanging basket.

oh one last thing, my sweetcorn has all sprouted so i am over the moon with them, lets hope i get a better result growing them this year.