Yet another fantastic weekend of spring sunshine, gardeners are being spoilt! I finally got round to putting the potatos into the raised bed this weekend – 16 plants went in. I also completed planting our ‘staple’ veg and the raised bed is now full for the time being. Here is what I planted: 8 x [...]
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Prolific Planting
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Spring Heat!
What weekend weather! The temperature inside the greenhouse was topping 30c and some of the young plants were wilting quite a lot. I was mostly repotting things this weekend, moving young plants from their propogators into bigger pots. They have also moved on from the greenhouse into the cold frames to free up some room. [...]
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Signs of life!
The recent planting of the strawberries has already proven successful, as we have some flowers already – at the beginning of April! The power socket is now installed in the greenhouse ready for the hydroponics. I’m going to get this up and running at the weekend. I recently gave the pepper plant that managed to [...]
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Strawberrys and Shelves
This latest weekend was a good one in terms of progress towards the full growing season. The greenhouse is now fully installed and useable and we now have a fantastic solid workbench / shelf (thanks to my Dad for building it!). I have moved a lot of my seed propagators to the greenhouse now as [...]
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Greenhouse!
At last my new greenhouse is complete and I can now start to build shelving ready for all of the plants to migrate from the window sills of the house. It actually turned out to be a relatively easy assembly in the end and I was very happy with the end result. We have also [...]
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Lessons learnt
I have decided that my main error last year was overzealous planting. By this I mean putting 4 chilli plants into one pot for instance or 4 potato plants into one bag. Yes, the plants grew but they did not create the optimum amount of produce. Another error I made was to plant everything at once, instead of [...]
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2010… the preparations begin
Hello and welcome to my first garden blog! My name is Paul and I have always loved gardening, ever since I was at primary school and won competitions for the tallest sunflower and biggest tomato. I have only recently got back into it all though, within the last 3 years or so. I had a good growing [...]
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