The Next Allan Titchmarsh....???

For this year undergardener has been allowed his own patch on the plot, as he is starting to be more interested in growing things then just digging large muddy holes.
I think I'll be the one doing the weeding, but so far he has about 6 different veg growing.

He seems to have got the sowing of to a tee

Sow the seeds...



Cover the seeds....



Water the seeds...




...and wait

In the Greenhouse

It was only about a month ago that the greenhouse was bursting at the seams with seedlings and plants all waiting to go out...



Most things have gone out now though, with the exception of a couple of flowers (which will be going in the garden at home) and some tom, pepper and cucumber plants I have left over.




Tom's are doing well, and most are covered in flowers


(Beat them tom's MC55!) :)


Tumbling Tomatos


Cucumbers in buckets, with the grid behind for them to be tied into




Various peppers (although I mixed the varietys up...) so a bit of a lucky dip to which type I get

w/c 19th May

Pics from round the Plot


Main crop potatos are now starting to sprout - but with the recent chilly couple of nights have all now been earthed up. Mixed 'cut-and-come-again' salad leaves against the path


Onions, carrots and parsnips - with some peas resown at the end after something ate all the shoots and leaves!!!


Looking through the canes for the runner beans down to the bath


Strawberries in flower


Artichokes grown from seeds


Under Gardeners 'Carrot Tub'seedlings


Outdoor tomato's planted against the south facing side of the greenhouse


Granny Smith Apple Tree


French beans out, with further direct sowings made at the bases of the canes. Ive also planted sweetpeas to grow with these, and the brassica bed of behind them


Parsnips, which were started of in modules seem to be doing well


Carrot seedlings seem to have srouted sparadically, so have had any patches resown and are now covered with fleece


Pond is coming back to life... although the pondweed is getting a little too lively!


Runner Beans are also out (tempted by the warm weather earlier this month), interplanted with poached egg plants and sunflowers. Behind them are a couple of pumpkin plants, and sweetcorn, with the early potatos at the far end which should hopefully have been harvested by the time the pumpkin gets too big!


My onion bed has had a growth spurt in the hot weather


The view across the allotment


This bed has got broccoli, turnips, leeks and more onions in, edged with marigolds.


Red Onions turning.... red


My mixed lettuce border against the path to the shed


MONSTER RHUBARB!!!


Jerusalem artichokes, against the path in the brassica bed


Various lavendars I got free from Gardeners World Magazine against the path in the onion bed

Flowering already!!!!

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