The Frantic Gardeners’ Blog

… do future dinners grow. Not much gets sown till late February, but this weekend we have sown the T and M packet of mixed aubergines, some green globe artichoke and a packet of braod beans jubilie hysore. All from thompson and Morgan and all in modules in a heated propagator.
It crossed my mind that this year, I may not have to sow everything into a module and plant out when getting established, as we no longer have such thick clay. Although we had raised beds, drainage was still a problem, and clay is cold for so long, and slugs so rampant, that all module was the only way.
We missed the autumn sowing of the broad beans though, so these will be our catch ups. Another packet will get sown outside towards the end of Feb.

We are long overdue a gardening blog, and i guess we will do a number of rambling posts to set the scene!

The impetus for this is that we have started on our first full year of growing in our new garden, having moved from solid clay leeds, to sand over gravel in cambs!

The garden we have taken over was previously cultivated, but had got quite weedy and ramshackle - particularly around the edges. The main weedy culprits being nettles, docks and ever present brambles, with a good coating of ivy.

Here are a few photo’s and snips of words from a home-ed blog we keep to quickly get us up to date!