still potting on!
Frantic Gardener on May 14th 2008
We have done some clearing out of the greenhouse. so, with the staging visible again, i have been busy filling it up! the toms are in their penultimate pot, the baby yellow ilidi seem very different. i have also potted on the butternut squash, pumpkin and courgettes [they get potted on once before planting out, as they get sown in modules!]. the 4 peppers are busy going nowhere, so i think we will be buying in peppers this year!
the yard beans are in their final pots with canes in the greenhouse as well. fingers crossed for a crop this year, as they didn’t crop outside last year.
Our sweetcorn are growing beautifully, and the french bean cobra and the runner bean something are germinating too. I guess i need to do some successional sowing of the brocolli now, and think about some salads. i haven’t done them yet this year, as i often sow them and then realise i haven’t got anywhere to put them and they bold. this year i am trying to do a bit more planning! i also have some dwarf french beans to sow that will go in the pots for the kids area
we have some cherries appearing on the minarette too. must keep an eye out for gooseberry sawfly - in leeds they always hit. here we have more a problem with the cabbage white, so i might need more environmesh!
very impressed at all your potting on. I sow and chuck out. So chucked out so far have been courgettes, pumpkins, runners, french beans, sweetcorn, have sown some stuff outside now too carrots, borage, parsley, radishes, all bordered by calendula. Have artichokes looking for a bed home somewhere, dunno where though, must sow some more beans too. Have also done some salad stuff in pots near the back door, as I’m more likely to use it before it bolts that way! Choose leaves you can just pick as you go along, rather than whole heads. have spare courgettes and squashes still in pots too. Also have a tray of seedlings that I have no idea what they are!! oops!
i guess northern habits die hard! they could easily be frosted still, and we gardened then on solid clay - really slow to warm up, and plagues of slugs, so big and beautiful when they went in was best!
most of the salads i do as come again crops.
maybe next year i will be bolder at putting them out!
oh, and also, the weeding is a bit behind - easier to pot on!!