It is full steam ahead in the greenhouse right now – once the second lot of broad beans have put on a bit more growth they can go to the allotment and the dwarf beans will be planted at the feet of the sweet peas.
The coldframe is full of plants that are waiting for some available space in the garden.
I’ve sown pots of peas to harvest as peashoots while we wait for salads to grow larger.
Planting swiss chard in last year’s tomato grow bags has been a huge success. We’ve picked them in the greenhouse and now the bags are outside with still plenty of chard left to harvest.
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Tagged Broad Beans, grow bags, pea shoots, swiss chard
I’m very disappointed with my first sowing of the much-heralded new blight-resistant tomato ‘Losetto’. While the other varieties achieved between 80-100% germination, I have a solitary Losetto i.e. 10%. It was sown in exactly the same way as the other varieties, so it can’t be the technique or the compost. I will try another sowing, but I would be interested to hear if anyone else has similar problems.
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Cornflowers thriving in the greenhouse
Despite total neglect since well before Christmas, all the hardy annuals I sowed in the autumn are looking really good. I will move them all to the coldframe in the next week. They will be fine there and I need to be getting on with some early seed sowing.
