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 don't have enough space set up at the moment for brassicas really (unless there are less than a handful!) so our broccoli plants that we sowed earlier in the year are going to be grown on at Mum and Dad's. Before planting out, each plant was given a good soak in liquid seaweed to... Continue Reading →
The three Marathon broccoli seeds that we sowed a couple of weeks ago all germinated, so that's good news for the germination of this packet of seed! We don't just let the trial seedlings go to waste, so we have now pricked these out into 3" pots. We will grow them on in these until... Continue Reading →
As we mentioned in our last blog post on the brassicas, we weeded them today. They weren't too bad in the end, but given another couple of weeks the weeds would've grown out of control and the cauliflowers would be too big to get in between so they would've had to stay like that, with... Continue Reading →
Compared to some of the vegetables we're growing, brassicas are much more of a long game. Although these were sown back on 22 March, they're still not ready to harvest. Fingers crossed they are worth the wait, they usually are! As you can see, they're much larger than they were when we planted them out,... Continue Reading →
Hopefully you've been finding our "trial brassica" journey interesting and helpful so far. And this is where it really begins - the planting out! Before planting out, we gave each plant the usual treatment - a good soak in some diluted Maxicrop seaweed. We find that this gives the plants a good start when they're... Continue Reading →
Different seeds have different shelf lives, with the shelf life typically decreasing once the sealed packet has been opened. But we always think it's a shame to just throw the remainder of a packet of seed from one year away the following year if you didn't finish it. Therefore, early on in the season we... Continue Reading →
This time last year, we made a plan for the growing season ahead. So we thought it would be a good time to look back at that plan and see how we got on! Potatoes We'd set ourselves the goal of three sowings of potatoes for 2019, to harvest in May, July and December. Well... Continue Reading →
The brassicas we sowed and pricked out a few weeks ago are now ready to plant out. We had a few cauliflowers and one broccoli plant to plant out. Dad gave us a bit of his vegetable patch to plant them out in as they need a fair bit of space to grow properly. We... Continue Reading →
Now the weather is warm and the days are long, everything grows surprisingly quickly. Here are a few photos of how our various crops are getting on. The second sowing of radishes are starting to swell, so it won't be long before we're eating these! The beetroot are also getting almost big enough to eat -... Continue Reading →
The cauliflower and broccoli seeds we planted last week are now ready to be pricked out. We prick brassica plants out into 3" square pots where they will stay until they are planted out in the garden in a few weeks' time. The 3" pots are filled with multipurpose compost, firming this down gently before... Continue Reading →
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