Garden Update

This week the weather has been beautiful in the evenings and so I have had the opportunity to do some more gardening, especially with the long evenings stretching out before us. On Monday (April 13th) I transplanted my garlic from the pots in the plastic greenhouse to one of the newly-created raised beds. The bed was intended to have tomatoes in, but they are suffering quite badly at the moment, so I am sure that I can utilize the space for garlic. So far only one of the eight that I transplanted appears to be suffering from the move but I will keep an eye on them.

On Wednesday I put a fence around the garlic bed to ensure that the cats stay out as far as possible, and I planted a lot more seeds. This included a mild mesclun mix, a spicy mesclun mix, bedfordshire champion onions (the early planted seeds are not really working), two squares of leeks (one Scottish Leek and the other Durabel), and two squares of lettuce (both Marvel of Four Seasons I believe).

So far all of the seeds that I have sown in the garden are making an appearance with the exception of the spinach that I planted some time ago. I have, therefore, made another sowing of Bloomsdale spinach in the pre-existing square, and today I transplanted my beans to one of the beds. Having not quite enough transplants to fill the required space, I planted about 6 more Maxibel Filet beans to make up the difference.

I have also moved the sweetcorn that I planted a couple of weeks ago into the plastic greenhouse as we are having some good weather at the moment, and I think that the earlier I get them out there then the easier they will be able to handle the variations in the weather. We'll see.

Sunday sowing.

Just a quick post about a bunch of sowing that I did today. Today's sowing is more to do with sowing a bunch of seed with the intention of moving it outdoors into my unheated mini-greenhouse as soon as they have germinated (I currently have garlic growing in it). We shall see how this approach works.

Anyway, I sowed some more Black Beauty Eggplants, Maxibel Filet Beans, Dragon Tongue Beans, 1000 Year Tobacco, Thyme, Parsley, Basil, and Chervil. I have never grown herbs before so this should be interesting.

From my last planting the peas have come out (although I wanted to plant beans - d'oh!), as have the Swiss Chard and the lettuce. I have now moved them under lights that I added today.