Beans and onions

Baby carrots

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Planted these carrots(Adelaide F1) Tuesday 4th March

They shot up no problem, no carrot fly, or any damage

Taste??? well they are sweet but not much flavour to them, hopefully the full roots will have a bit more of a taste to them

Planted 4/3/8 Eaten 1/6/8

13 weeks fromseedtoplate

PURE BELTER

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23/5/08

Dinner time!!!!

My first tatties of the year, "1st early Rocket"

I had them in the tunnel for around 14 weeks, not sure how much difference it made?? my other 2 tatties are only 2-3weeks max away and they have been grow outdoors.

Taste??? Its hard not to get swept up in the "homegrown is best" bullshit!! But these do taste great, Classic new tattie flavour,Light soft skins, not as nutty as Jersey royals.

Looking like around 6kgs from 25 seed.

Very happy, I would grow them again.

16 weeks FROMSEEDTOPLATE

1st herbs of the year

First pickings

First pickings of the year mini gem and grenobloise lettuce!!
Planted seeds 11th Feb in propagator
Moved to window ledge 16th Feb
Moved into individual cell tray's 28th Feb
Planted in mini tunnel 11th March
Picked first couple 26th April

I make that 11 weeks FROMSEEDTOPLATE

Tatties have taken

Planted these tatties(rocket) 24/2 after a couple of weeks chitting, They seemed to have taken well..... Could be in for a bumper early crop

Baba is getting big

Tomatoes on the move

So far so good, Planted 40 seeds 11/3 in heated propagator, they shot up quickly, then moved to kitchen window for a week.

All stations are GO!

Had a bit of time on my hands lately, I have started to get things moving, So far I have the following on the go.

Tatties
Homegaurd
Arran pilot
Rocket(in tunnel have started to come through after 3 weeks)

Carrots
5 row's of Adelaide F1 (in tunnel)
5 row's of Nantes early (seed tape)

Peas
2x2 meters of TWINKLE in guttering in the tunnel in between the spuds

Tomatoes
10 Lilliput
10 San Marzano
10 St Pierre
10 Gardeners delight all seeds in the propagator

MISC
40 red peppers corno rosso
9 chilli pepper red demon
500 yes 500 musselburgh leeks
150 Autum king leeks
couple of small row's of spring onions
Parsley, mint and a couple of trays of Basil classico

So far so good, everything from seed

Planting started

Got 2.5kg of new tatties(rocket) in the tunnel
started of a few mini gem,cos,grenobloise lettuce, some early peas and a little bit of flat parsley.

Wee beauty

Seed planted 27th May
Moved on 23rd Feb

Seed list

PEPPER CORNO ROSSO

TOMATO LILLIPUT F1

TOMATO SAN MARZANO

TOMATO ST PIERRE

BASIL CLASSICO ITALIANO

PARSLEY GIGANTE NAPOLETANO

LETTUCE ROUGE GRENOBLOISE

ROMAINE LETTUCE FRANCHI F1

Courgette Venus F1 Hybrid

Carrot : Bangor F1 Hybrid

Leek : Autumn Giant 2

Climbing Bean : Fasold

Broccoli : Belstar F1 Hybrid

Squash : Winter : Harrier F1 Hybrid

Carrot : Adelaide F1 Hybrid
Carrot Early Nantes 2 [Seed Tape]

Sweetcorn : Butterscotch F1

Pea Twinkle

Pea Jaguar

Pea Balmoral

Pea Endeavour

£40 tunnel

Have spent a couple of hours building a polytunnel "of sorts". It looks the bollocks just hope it works

The seeds are here

Ordered from Seeds of Italy and thompson&morgan

Seeds of Italy took 3 days and Thompsons 5 days

Grow you fuckers!!!!!!

Only 5 months to go

The way I found it.



Getting the trees oot






Getting the new fence,path and lawn down

Removing the trees was a right pain in the arse, ruined the lawn, and managed to rip up my neighbours path!!


Started chitting my new tatties today, rocket,home guard, and arran pilot 2.5kg of each. The plan is to build a "cheap" small polytunnel(watch this space) and try and force the rocket for a bumper crop of mega early new tatties. The other 2 I'm going down the standard route.