Haven't been doing much around my daughters garden for the past month or so, too busy getting things organised for my new house and I suppose that will be the way it will be for the next couple of months anyway. Last saturday I rescued this green house from ending up in the builders skip. It will take pride of place in my new garden, did I mention my new house is in 0.8 of an acre, so plenty of room for anything I want to do. Would hope to start on the gardening side of things in sept as I'm sure my better half has plenty of plans for me to do work, work that is, not gardening.

2 of the apple tree's which were planted last september seem to have little apple's appearing, hopefully they'll grow on into something nice and juicy.

Have been late planting out to the 3 raised beds, it's been a bit of a struggle to keep the plants in the greenhouse alive for the past month or so as the day's have been ultra hot, the spuds seem to be growing away, bushy but no great height, don't know why this is but I'm sure time will tell.

Have been missing for a while, between work and other problems just keeping up with things has been a struggle. Things are flying ahead, this year won't be a showy year as I just don't seem to be able to find the time to get on top of things. I recon 2010 will be my year.




Marigold 'durango' grown from seed this year again are doing well, nice big flowers and plenty of blooms per flower.

Gillardia's grown from seed last year, did well but are even better this year.

Lupins 'tutti fruiti' again grown from seed last year but are much stronger this year.

Evening all,

Just to let u know I'm still here, but have been up to alot of things, unfortunately most of them nothing to do with gardening. things are good on the gardening front at the moment and will post again to let u know how I'm getting on.

Growth over the past week has been very obvious, flowers, grass, strawberries, raspberries, potatoes and many more things but also weeds as per usual. Saturday could be best described as wet so I spent most of the day in the greenhouses potting up and tidying up. Dismantled the heated propagator as I need the space it's taking up, and really don't have further use for it this season.





Dropped by the hydro allotments this morning and met Peggy, it's a fabulous place with plenty of things going on. It great to see at first hand the interest that is really there in allotments.

My lilies are getting bigger by the day, great really, considering they were left to die down at the end of last season and just stuck at the bottom of the garden since then and left to their own devices. Will probably make 4 or 5 pots out of them at the end of this season and give them some fresh compost at the start of next season.

As you can see, plenty of green developed on my veg shelf since last week, everything has germinated so hopefully we will get them all to the planting out stage.

Things are beginning to hot up now in the garden, plenty of maintainance i.e. grass cutting weeding and edgeing. Colurs are beginning to creep in also, nice to see it at last.

Apple, plum and pear trees all in blossom, they look really colourful and healthy.

Gave the strawberries a feeding over week end, they also seem to be doing well

Little flowers on most of them.

The first potatoes I've ever grow have sprouted, hopefully they will continue on

Most of the veg seeds I sowed a week ago or so both in the cold and heated greenhouses have germinated, will let you know exactly what is up next week end.

Been having a problem with my potatoe peelings in the compost heap this year, a problem in that they keep sprouting.

Hopefully have sorted the problem now by lining the bin with some bubble wrap I had lying around and then some black polythene. Had a look at it this eve and the heat was good, so maybe this will speed things up as I have noticed it seems to be taking forever and a day to get compost.

Also planted up some comfrey cuttings I got last year that have been sitting in pots at the bottom of the garden, must say they are lovely and colourful.

Things are coming along nicely in the heated greenhouse, moved out some more seedlings today to the cold greenhouse to make some more room. Still have about 180 or so seedlings to pot up over the next week or so. The fuchsia standards are coming on well and the crysants are beginning to flower.





Sowed some veg seeds today in the propagator at about 18 degrees, which really means nothing as the daytime temps soar to about 30 degrees in the greenhouse. Doesn't seem to cause any problems. Have reduced the heater to run at about 12 degrees overnight.


SOW DATE 13/4/09 IN HEATED GREENHOUSE

VEG VARIETY
TOMATO MONEYMAKER
TOMATO LEGEND
TOMATO RED ALERT
TOMATO 4796 TRIAL SEED