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.