Sunday, June 29, 2008
raspberries and tadpoles
WE have started eathing them and they havve now been seen with 4 legs andn look quite grown up.. most exciting.
veg garden progress
Every thing is now growing extremely fast. At present in veg bed are climbing beans up to 4 ft(flowers budding but not yet out). Shallotts, plenty of greenery.. overwshadowed by broad beans. Broad beans with pods now up to 3 ins long and plants 3'6" high. Norli peas with flowers, beetroots , very strong leaves but small bulbs thus far. very small quantity of cumin plants.. most have been eaten by slugs grrr. Sugar bon peas, we have eaten two off the plant but plenty more coming. bulb fennel doing well, probably too closely spaced. Red cabbage and broccoli.
Corgettes (goldie and black forest) and squashes (turks turban and gails) were all very slow but those grown on in the greenhouse to be quite large plants and then put in the bed on 1st June have done much better.
Corgettes (goldie and black forest) and squashes (turks turban and gails) were all very slow but those grown on in the greenhouse to be quite large plants and then put in the bed on 1st June have done much better.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
backlog
garden has been so busy that we've got a bit behind on the writing-up, jotting down notes but not had time to blogify them. so here they are:
26/4/08
Godetias beginning to sprout (in the greenhouse)
Planted out Gail's squash and sowed the Norli peas
Established net to stop cat trauma to the veggie bed (broad bean seedlings)
First sight of shallots sprouting
planted My Love dahlias
Sorted through compost and found family of mice! which had made a very cosy little home - moved them to the other side keenly watched by Tiger...........
Sowed Nigella "Miss Jekyll", Escholzia, night-scented stock and cornflowers
Potted up the french tarragon
Moved the tomato seedlings
27/4/08
damn it bloody cats have AGAIN dug up shallots - fencing and cage reinforced extensively, replanted shallots for the THIRD time grrrrr God help the radishes
planted out beetroot seedlings
sowed poached-egg seeds into veg bed
Movied the Passiflora into the perennial bed
Moved the Ceanothus - good luck
Earthed up the ivy in its pot and planted a couple of nasturtium "Empress of India" beside it
Moved the Pasque flowers to the "iris bed" by the paeonies
Moved the mystery plant (?coreopsis) to the perennial bed
Spotted FROG x2 in the pond!!
Sowed the salad barrel - pak choi, lettuce, mustard spinach and runner beans
Sowed sweet marjoram
First cherry blossom out!
2/5/08
TADPOLES!!
25/5/08
Planted out "Sugar Bon" peas - about 3 ins high
Black Forest courgette planted out with 2 leaves has been totally munched
Broad beans now 12 ins high and need staking
Shallots look good
Tadpoles - lots - large but no legs yet
Planted out climbing beans and two aubergines purchased at OSP
Perovskia doing well but no sign of dahlias yet
First paeony opening imminent
Sweet rocket nearly 4ft high - much taller than bleedin' eart
26/5/08
tadpoles very carnivorous now - scoffing dead snails urrrghhh
Potted on courgettes and Turks Turban squash
planted out red cabbage and broccoli
27/5/08
Cleared up creeping buttercup in "wild" zone - Carrie attacked by brown compost bin, blood ++ and trip to Minor Injuries at WGH
29/5/08
Wind finally gone round to West - most of May bright and dry but unseasonably cold so everything a bit behind.
Second dose of Nemaslug applied
Roses treated with lethal mix of garlic, sugar and ginger
1/6/08
Flaming June, ha - but yesterday was gorgeous, and the garden has definitely responded to the warmth. Paenoies and organic rose now out and one of the yellow roses, but the oriental poppies still haven't appeared. Cats been digging again and nearly but not quite managed to destroy the peas. Ceanothus sadly has not survived being moved..............have put in the tree paeony and planted out rest of godetia seedlings and some of rudbeckia seedlings, keeping some back in the greenhouse just in case. Various things waiting in the greenhouse to go to new homes......tomato plants and chili plants for Sita, Fuchsia cuttings, pots of Nigella and tomatoes for Maryam. basil seedlings have just germinated but no sign of the stephanotis. Morning glories distributed in various places, with again a couple in the greenhouse as reserves...........i've never actually managed to grow them before but they look nice and strong. greenhouse stuff mostly still quite small............raised beds have tomatoes, chillies, aubergines and cucmbers. one courgette "Goldie" in a pot, beside the pot with the runner beans and tomatoes. salad barrel mostly dominated by the biggest and healthiest parsley plant ever seen............just have to think of lots of things to do with parsley i guess................coriander just starting on the window-sill and will need tp start more summer herbs and salads once the greenhouse is clearer. Coreopsis have been very slow and unlikely to flower this year, but i've potted the seedlings on to encourage them.........lupins look fab and delphiniums coming on too, those are longer-term projects for the perennial bed. Nigella, cornflowers, NSS and Escholzia doing what they're meant to do in the annual bed, clary also beginning to sprout. the sweet rocket has turned out to be huge............pretty white or pink flowers with a sweet scent inthe evening. fabulous lilac at the back, diascias starting to flower and the first tiny begonia leaf just poking its way up in the planter bench............
26/4/08
Godetias beginning to sprout (in the greenhouse)
Planted out Gail's squash and sowed the Norli peas
Established net to stop cat trauma to the veggie bed (broad bean seedlings)
First sight of shallots sprouting
planted My Love dahlias
Sorted through compost and found family of mice! which had made a very cosy little home - moved them to the other side keenly watched by Tiger...........
Sowed Nigella "Miss Jekyll", Escholzia, night-scented stock and cornflowers
Potted up the french tarragon
Moved the tomato seedlings
27/4/08
damn it bloody cats have AGAIN dug up shallots - fencing and cage reinforced extensively, replanted shallots for the THIRD time grrrrr God help the radishes
planted out beetroot seedlings
sowed poached-egg seeds into veg bed
Movied the Passiflora into the perennial bed
Moved the Ceanothus - good luck
Earthed up the ivy in its pot and planted a couple of nasturtium "Empress of India" beside it
Moved the Pasque flowers to the "iris bed" by the paeonies
Moved the mystery plant (?coreopsis) to the perennial bed
Spotted FROG x2 in the pond!!
Sowed the salad barrel - pak choi, lettuce, mustard spinach and runner beans
Sowed sweet marjoram
First cherry blossom out!
2/5/08
TADPOLES!!
25/5/08
Planted out "Sugar Bon" peas - about 3 ins high
Black Forest courgette planted out with 2 leaves has been totally munched
Broad beans now 12 ins high and need staking
Shallots look good
Tadpoles - lots - large but no legs yet
Planted out climbing beans and two aubergines purchased at OSP
Perovskia doing well but no sign of dahlias yet
First paeony opening imminent
Sweet rocket nearly 4ft high - much taller than bleedin' eart
26/5/08
tadpoles very carnivorous now - scoffing dead snails urrrghhh
Potted on courgettes and Turks Turban squash
planted out red cabbage and broccoli
27/5/08
Cleared up creeping buttercup in "wild" zone - Carrie attacked by brown compost bin, blood ++ and trip to Minor Injuries at WGH
29/5/08
Wind finally gone round to West - most of May bright and dry but unseasonably cold so everything a bit behind.
Second dose of Nemaslug applied
Roses treated with lethal mix of garlic, sugar and ginger
1/6/08
Flaming June, ha - but yesterday was gorgeous, and the garden has definitely responded to the warmth. Paenoies and organic rose now out and one of the yellow roses, but the oriental poppies still haven't appeared. Cats been digging again and nearly but not quite managed to destroy the peas. Ceanothus sadly has not survived being moved..............have put in the tree paeony and planted out rest of godetia seedlings and some of rudbeckia seedlings, keeping some back in the greenhouse just in case. Various things waiting in the greenhouse to go to new homes......tomato plants and chili plants for Sita, Fuchsia cuttings, pots of Nigella and tomatoes for Maryam. basil seedlings have just germinated but no sign of the stephanotis. Morning glories distributed in various places, with again a couple in the greenhouse as reserves...........i've never actually managed to grow them before but they look nice and strong. greenhouse stuff mostly still quite small............raised beds have tomatoes, chillies, aubergines and cucmbers. one courgette "Goldie" in a pot, beside the pot with the runner beans and tomatoes. salad barrel mostly dominated by the biggest and healthiest parsley plant ever seen............just have to think of lots of things to do with parsley i guess................coriander just starting on the window-sill and will need tp start more summer herbs and salads once the greenhouse is clearer. Coreopsis have been very slow and unlikely to flower this year, but i've potted the seedlings on to encourage them.........lupins look fab and delphiniums coming on too, those are longer-term projects for the perennial bed. Nigella, cornflowers, NSS and Escholzia doing what they're meant to do in the annual bed, clary also beginning to sprout. the sweet rocket has turned out to be huge............pretty white or pink flowers with a sweet scent inthe evening. fabulous lilac at the back, diascias starting to flower and the first tiny begonia leaf just poking its way up in the planter bench............
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