April Planting Out.....Continued

I am a bit late with my potatoes this year due to my long holiday.  Finally I got some of my favourite main crop potatoes (Pink Fir Apple) in today.  I also planted out some pots of Coriander that were bursting to come out of their little pots.  Hmmm, today's planting, tomorrow's curry!

Apr 22 - Main Crop Potatoes and Coriander

1. Potatoes - Pink Fir Apple, 9 seed potatoes
2. Coriander - Leaf, 6 pots planted out in beds.  3-4 plants per pot

Apr 26 - Main Crop Potatoes and Peas

1. Potatoes - Pink Fir Apple, 12 seed potatoes (last planting)
2. Peas - Canoe, 3 pots planted out

Apr 27 - Chives, Parsley, Beans and more Lettuces

1. Lettuces - Web Wonderful, 3 pots planted out
2. Lettuces - Romaine, 3 pots planted out
3. Chives - 2 pots divided and planted out
4. Parsley - Flat leaf, 2 pots planted out
5. Beans - Borlotto, 2 plants
6. Beans - Blauhilde, 2 plants

April Outdoor Sowing....Continued

Made a few more sowings in the Roots Bed.  Hopefully this will go some way towards filling that empty harvesting gap that I had this year between Dec and Feb.

Apr 27 - Parsnips, Beetroot and Swede

• Beetroot - Burpees Golden, 1/2 row
• Parsnips - White Gem, 1 row
• Swede - Helenor, 1 Row

Apr 27 - Spring Onions

• Spring Onions - Lilia, 1/2 row

April Planting Out

My broccoli and cauliflowers are bursting out of their pots so I thought I would take advantage of this mid April sun and put them in their final places.  I just put out half now and I will see how they get on. This year I am not taking chances with the pigeons and rooks.  I have built a 3 foot high wooden frame and covered my complete brassica bed with fine netting.  Hopefully it will keep out the white butterflies as well but I am not convinced! :)

Apr 20 - Broccoli, Cauliflower

1. Broccoli - Wok Broc, planted out 3 plants
2. Broccoli - Calabrese, planted out 2 plants
3. Cauliflower - Romanesco Veronica, planted out 5 plants

April Outdoor Sowing

I am running out of space so I am cutting back a bit on potatoes this year.  I am sticking to new potatoes which are great for those impromptu summer dinners with a bit of rosemary and garlic.

Apr 17th - Potatoes

1. Potatoes - Juliette x 10 seed potatoes
2. Potatoes - Charlotte x 10 seed potatoes

April Indoor Sowing

Just back from holiday and so thought I would get a fresh round of veg on the go in my windowsills. Fingers crossed for my 3 sisters experiment (Sweetcorn, Borlotto Beans and Squash). All went into disposable pots hopefully ready to plant out mid May.

Apr 17th - Sweetcorn, Bean, Squash, Courgettes, Sunflowers and Sweetpeas

1. Sweetcorn - Sundance x 26 pots (Indoor Propagator)
2. Beans - Borlotto x 4 pots (Indoor Propagator)
3. Beans - Blauhilde x 4 pots (Indoor Propagator)
4. Squash - Butternut x 3 pots (Indoor Propagator)
5. Squash - Blue Ballet x 1 pot (Indoor Propagator)
6. Courgette - Soliel x 2 pots (Indoor Propagator)
7. Sunflowers - 5 pots (Indoor Propagator)
8. Sweetpeas - 3 pots (Indoor Propagator)

March Outdoor Planting Out

I thought I would risk some indoor grown lettuces and plant them out in the ground.  I have used old, clear plastic bottles as make do cloches.

21st - Lettuces from 05th of March Indoor Sowings

1. Lettuces - Mizuna 4 plants
2. Lettuces - Valmaine 4 plants
3. Lettuces - Romaine 4 plants

*Update - After returning on the 15th of Apr from holiday, all lettuces looked very healthy and had grown a great deal under their bottle cloches.

March Indoor Sowing - Never Enough Basil

I like to use Basil by the fistful so I thought I would get another round on the go.

20th - Basil 

1. Basil - Thai, 3 pots (Indoor Propagator)
2. Basil - Sweet Genovese, 3 pots (Indoor Propagator)
3. Chives - Garlic, 2 pots (Indoor Propagator)

* Update

Most of the basil has been very successful.  This year I have gone the extra step and potted on each small plant individually to try and get a lot of larger plants that can be used continually throughout the summer.  

March Outdoor Sowing Diary Continued

Right before my 3 week holiday I managed to get a lot of seeds in.  This worked great as the hardest part is sitting around waiting for them to germinate.  I happily returned to little seedlings popping up everywhere!

March Outdoor Sowing Diary Continued

15th - Cabbage, Shallots, and Herbs

1. Sweet Marjoram - 2 Eggs carton lids (Coldframe)
2. Oregano - 1 Egg carton lid (Coldframe)
3. Shallots - Banana, 1 row
4. Shallots - Red, 2 rows

16th - Beetroot and Lettuces

1. Beetroot - 1 half row
2. Lettuce - Web Wonderful, 1 half row
3. Lettuce - Rocket, 1 half row

17th - Peas, Potatoes, Cauliflower and Broccoli

1. Broccoli - Wok Broc, 2 pots (Propagator Outside)
2. Broccoli - Olympia, 9 pots (Propagator Outside)
3. Cauliflower - Goodman, 1 pot (Propagator Outside
4. Potatoes - Anya, 10 seed potatoes
5. Peas - Canoe, 1 half row