Seedling Photos

Our growth of Seedling's Starting from January 09 through the months.

These are my mums ruby ball red cabbage

Mummy's chillys and peppers

mum's leaks and broad beans in the greenhouse

mumm'y made a big pot out of a tyre and put some carrots in

This is the side of t tyre pot

This is our greenhouse !!

this is our little veggy patch in the back garden

this has been done bye sassi (:

April and Mays growth spurt!

Vegetable Seeds

Vegetable varieties were using this year.

Peas -- Early Onwards, Kelvedon Wonder

Broad Beans -- The Sutton, Bunyards Exhibitions

Carrots -- Early Nantes, Paris Market, Fly Away F1 Hybrid

Cabbage -- Ruby Ball F1 Hybrid red

Celeriac -- Monarch

Courgette -- Defender F1 Hybrid, Zucchini

Sweetcorn -- F1 Sundance, F1 Applause, F1 Jubilee

Turnip -- Snowball

Parsnip -- Tender and True

Swede -- Best of all

Leeks -- Musselburgh

Salad Seeds

Varieties of Salads were using this year

Tomato -- Red Cherry, Maskotka Basket

Lettuce -- All year round, Little Gem, Sky Rocket

Sweet Pepper -- Californian Wonder, Yolo W

Chilli -- Pepper de Cayenne, Jalapeno

Celery -- Latham Self Blanching Galaxy, Celebrity

Cucumber -- Marketmore 70

Beetroot -- Boltardy, Chioggia Pink

Spring Onion -- White Lisbon, Furio (red)

Planting Seasons

Early Spring -- March

Mid Spring -- April

Late Spring -- May

Early Summer -- June

Mid Summer -- July

Late Summer -- August

Early Autumn -- September

Mid Autumn -- October

Late Autumn -- Novermber

Early Winter -- December

Mid Winter -- January

Late Winter -- February

February 09

Late Winter

What i should be doing now in February.

Chit potatoes 2nd earlies, plant garlic bulbs buy fruit bushes and trees. Sort summer baskets ready for basket tomatoes, make a tyre for carrots, collect toilet rolls and bottles for closhes. Put chilli the rabbit back outside and the herbs from the greenhouse. End of feb put leek trays outside to harden of in daytime. Bought 1 blackcurrant bush and potted in container in greenhouse.

Sow-

Celeriac, parsnip, leeks, broad beans, celery, spring onions, toms, lettuce, celery, normal toms, pepper, chilli and beetroot.

02/02/09 -Snow all week the seeds growing in gh and windowsil (toms, lett, red cabb have all popped up).
09/02/09 -Snow again this morning, 4 degrees in gh.

12/02/09
Put 28 peas into seed compost in 1/2 cut loo rolls. with lid on into gh. put (24/1 toms) in gh with lid on. Sown 6 chilli, 4 basket toms, 4 cucumbers, 4 peppers, and 20 red cherry toms in to a sow and grow 24 module with lid on in bathroom window.

14/02/09 -Snow gone, put (24/1) carrots in gh with lid on.
16/02/09 -10 degrees in gh
17/02/09 - 5 toms and 2 cucumbers popped up (12/02).
19/02/09 - 1 cucumber and rest of noral toms popped up and 4 basket toms (12/02).


21/02/09
11 degrees am and 25 degrees pm in gh, moved 2 trays of leeks outside to harden off and garlic. Chitttied 26 broad beans in paper, sown 1 white tray leeks and set 8 parsnips in loo rolls in tray in bathroom window.

24/02/09 - 10 degrees gh 2 peppers popped in windowsil (24/01. Put herbs outside again and rabbit, put cucumbers and spring onions outside in gh.
27/02/09 - Potted 24 broad beans (21/2)
28/02/09 - Repotted peas from loo rolls into square black pots and doing better now.

January 09

Mid Winter

What i should be doing now in January.

Chit potatoes 1st earlies, plant garlic bulbs, start digging for parsnips and beans and peas and cover the soil with plastic to warm. Find containers, old tyres or bags for sowing carrots and potatoes. Start collecting loo rolls eans, leeks, ttles to protect peas, beans, leeks, parsnips.

Sow-

Carrots, leeks, Broad beans, peas, red summer cabbage,celeriac, celery, lettiue,cucumbers, chilli, peppers, tomatoes and beetroot.

04/01/09

Chitting 7 tates in greenhouse, planted 6 garlic heads in greenhouse and planted 7 in soil already shooting.

16/01/09

Planted 3 elephant garlic, 1 white tray leeks, 64 beetroot, 40 red cabbage, 20 lettuce, 1/2 seed tray of celeriac and 1/2 seed tray of celery all in greenhouse. Chitted 26 broad beans.

10/01/09

Potted 23 of 26 broad beans, 6 garlic heads and put 15 little tates in greenhouse to chit.

20/01/09

Turned an old tyre inside out filled 1/2 with soil and 1/2 John Innies seed compost topped with vermiculite, sown early nantie carrots and bubblewrapped for warmth, very frostie. Brrr snow and frosts next week.

24/01/09

Kitchen windowsil - sown 12 pepper, 6 cucumber, 6 chilli, 10 basket toms in pots in a tray with lid on.
Sown 1/2 seed tray carrots, 1/2 seed tray of spring onions. both with lid in front room, nice and warm.. Snow all week.

December 08

Early Winter

What i should be doing in December.

Plant garlic bulbs, Salads can be sown now until April.

Greenhouse sow-

Cucumbers, peppers, chilli, tomatoes, lettice, radish, spring onions, broad beans, leeks and strawberries.

02/12/08

Set 1 white seed tray of leeks 14*22. Half a tray of spring onions.

November 08

Late Autumn

What i should be doing now in November

Plant garlic bulbs and plant onion sets.

Sow-

Broad beans and peas.

October 08

Mid Autumn

What i should be doing in October -

Plant garlic bulbs, spring bulbs and onion sets.

Order any fruit trees/bush, last cut of the lawn, and sow lawn seed. Bring herbs into the greenhouse and start to bubblewrap the inside of the greenhouse.

Sow- Broad beans and peas.

01/10/08

Potted 10 beans and 10 peas for the home veg patch,in greenhouse
sown radish and rocket straight in to home veg patch.

September 08

Early Autumn

We have our new allotment now after only waiting about 1 month on the council waiting list!
Been down there to have a loook its a very long but thin lottie , with a shabby old shed.

What i should be doing on lottie this month -

Sow -
Broad beans normal spinich spring oinions lettice rocket radish, buy Onion sets plant garlic bulbs and set spring onions and spring bulbs.

16/9/08
Planted 12 garlic in home veg patch, set broad beans, peas, and rocket.

17/9/08
planted 3 rows of onion sets about 50

19/9/08
Set a white seed tray of leeks 14*22