Proof that vegetable growing can be done by anybody. From a couple of under 30s – one who grew up growing and one who has just got going…
We sowed our main sowing of courgettes for containers on 26 April. These were planted outside in their containers on 24 May, so they don't take long really! As a reminder, we have a Midnight and a Sunstripe in this sowing. As with our other planting out in containers, we make a hold just larger than the pot the... Continue Reading →
The mint cuttings we took a few weeks ago have now rooted (we've had less success on that front with the apple mint, but we'll come on to that) and are starting to grow on. This photo is one of the peppermint cuttings, which is rooted and we pinched the top out of a week... Continue Reading →
Our pepper plants were now large enough to be planted out into their final containers. The plants stand at about 6-8" tall and are all starting to get flower buds (and one miniscule pepper has been spotted in the case of one!) which is a good sign. We have decided to grow these in the... Continue Reading →
So I've decided I might not be such a strawberry pro! Although the plants are growing, they haven't produced plants that are nearly as big as we would've hoped! I have been watering them regularly to try and encourage them to grow, but it seems they just want to take it slowly! Last year we... Continue Reading →
As a reminder, the two varieties we're growing in our main sowing of courgettes for containers are Midnight and Sunstripe. Both are designed to be grown in containers, but one is green and one is yellow! This is what the plants look like now. And weirdly enough, even though the Sunstripe that we originally sowed didn't germinate so we had... Continue Reading →
There's not too much I'm overly confident in growing, but Charisma Carrots are something I grew last year, and they are sown, grown and harvested in the same single tub - so in many ways there's only a handful of mistakes I could possibly make! Last year, I was fortunate enough to pinch the soil/compost... Continue Reading →
Chris has grown his own tomatoes this year (perhaps he'll write an update on those at some point), but I didn't start any off from seed as I already had too many other things on the go. Dad has grown lots of different varieties though, so I've been helping him look after his, and last... Continue Reading →
Our early sowing of courgettes that we are growing in containers have been growing on along the pathway of the polytunnel to try and get them to crop a bit earlier. After a couple of weeks of slow growth (which always seems to be the same with courgettes!) they've started growing more steadily over the... Continue Reading →
We sowed some sugar snap peas, Cascadia, on 26 April and yesterday, these were big enough to plant out. We constructed a climbing frame for them to grow up out of some old square wire fencing which we stretched across the bed and held in place by tying it to a few stakes, one at... Continue Reading →
