[Rosemary]

It's soooo dry. Hopefully we'll get some rain tonight. The garden is like a desert, with the pig pen just a dust bowl, except where the wallow is.
We had a few spots of rain this afternoon - just some at night would be good. Hope all you folks further south are getting some dry now - it looked awful over the last few days.

[rustyme]

cheers Rosemary,
                      it was really yukkie here to say the least. We had constant rain and then some very very strong winds, but all calmed down today . It was a very nice day really, I think we are due a lot more rain yet though ?.... still I hope you get some , enough to water the plants anyway ...It should be ok to sow some seeds tomorrow...if it doesn't tip it down again ? lol....

[rustyme]

did a little bit of earthing up on the spuds today.....only two rows left to do, but they are the Jersey Royals and won't need doing for another week yet maybe. I think there is about 130 growing away like mad now. Although the weather is ideal ,at the moment , I hope it does stay too wet through the summer. Otherwise we could be in for a bad blight year !!!
         Did you get your PFA's in yet Linz ? Hope you are feeling a bit better by the way...
 
         How about your stuff Guy ? all growing nicely I hope ?
 
Russ

         

[Fluffywelshsheep]

hiya all no pfa in yet hoping to do it this week end hubby has promised to make 'raised' bed.

but did get a small row of iceberg lettuce and a row of all year round lettuce. This will be a second sowing of lettuce as i have already put some   in a basket on the fence.

[rustyme]

I managed to get some seeds sown today , at long last .
  Seeds sown included :
 Leeks (musselburgh) 1 row
 Spring Onions (bunching Ishikura),Carrot (Autumn King 2),Rocket,Carrot (Norfolk Giant) 1/4 row each.
 Cabbage (Golden Acre),Brussel Sprouts (Bedford) 1/2 a row each to transplant later.
 Parsnip (Whit Gem) 1 row
 Broccoli (Early Purple Sprouting) 1 row
 Carrot (Berlicum 2) 1 row
  In total it was 90' in 6 rows . Some like the cabbage, sprouts and broccoli , will shift over into the section next to where they are at the moment later in the year , ready for autumn winter and spring cropping . The soil was just right for sowing , and as luck would have it , it rained later so there was no need to water them in .   
     Weather permitting , more tomorrow...fingers crossed.  Hope everyone elses stuff is doing well .

cheers

Russ

[Fluffywelshsheep]

pfa planted today a bit late but better late than never

hubby did some rotavating a digging and i did some weeding, lots of rain so that always good for after the planting.
Linz

[rustyme]

wonders will never cease ...I remembered the camera today . I Took a couple of video clips of how everything is doing so far . It is all way behind where it should really be , but no matter ..it will sort of catch up in the end ( hopefully !!) Only two more sections left to do now (clear the weeds that is ) and lots more seeding . Eighteen rows so far seeded and the first thing to pop up was the rocket !!! Anyway hope everyone is doing well ...here are the videos :




 

[Fluffywelshsheep]

well done the weather looks lovely there rusty
linz

[stephen]

well i am a very happy boy! on sunday i emptied my over crowded pot full of new potatoes! i was going to split the potatoes between two dustbins but just couldnt find the time so left them all (about 20 / 25!) in the one pot and looked on it as an experiment! i was actually hoping they would all meld into one giant spud but insted i got lots of medium and small perfectly formed tatties! they only lasted two days ( i live in a house of 11!!) we had lovley new potatoes with melted butter on the sunday as part of a bbq and i have been eating my way through a giant batch of potatoe salad that has now all gone!! i planted a new batch straight away in a 4ft tall dustbin so am aiming for twice if not 3 times the amount i took out of the pot!! also my peas are growing and the pods (right word??!) are forming! they are not big enough to pick yet and having to leave them alone is killing me! im so impatient! everything else i tried seems to have died unfortunatley due to neglect on my part! and while watching river cottage spring last night out came the pen and paper with plans and a list for next year! would love to start this year but other comitments mean i simply wont have the time! im even going to have a bash at making my own watering system! and i need to make the pots / beds cat and puppy proof as my dog loves to dig! most of my inspiration came from this site so a big thanks to everyone for being so well.... inspiring!! (spelling!!) 

[Hilbillie]

We've been having the first of our new potatoes this week as well, they were delicious!  It was sooo satisfying gathering potatoes, spring onions and lettuce for a salad.  Unfortunately my tomato plants all died (again).  I lost the first lot I put in the plazzy greenhouse because I forgot to open the roll up door and they got frazzled and scorched so I bought a whole load more, they seemed to be doing really well and got to the flowering stage and even 2 or 3 toms on each plant.  I fed them some tomato food I bought and they all withered!  They are all sat there now withered up with green tomatoes on!  Dont know what I did wrong but will definitely have to rethink for next year.  My cucumbers are doing well though, I have one which I am treating with kid gloves, its about 4 inches so far, albeit curved like a banana, but going strong!  Carrots and turnips are also doing beautifully, its so exciting lifting up the canopy of leaves to see these snow white turnips getting bigger and bigger and the tops of the carrots showing at the base of the leaves.  This is the first year proper for our veggie plot and I am enjoying it so much, even the weeding is satisfying in a way.  I'm learning so much from my mistakes that next year we should have a really productive plot hopefully!

[rustyme]

Really glad that you are all slowly starting to get crops from your plots....I have had a few spuds , mainly from escapees that have managed to live in the plot from the last planting. I am still clearing the other two sections at the moment ...other things keep stopping me though , but I will get there in the end. I am at the moment trying to sort out the comfrey bed ...the grass went mental in it... still I have been cutting loads of comfrey for the horses.

Russ

[Fluffywelshsheep]

myveg plot so far i have been busy doing other stuff that needs be so have neglated the garden a bit but i have got snap peas small turnips (from thinings) and a couple of early tatties but everything is going brilliant apart from the pak choi that have bolted. Think that go to hot i kept em under plastic bottles too long.

[carrumba0095]

I am still annoyed that my tomatoes have got bud end rot.. grrr... but am pinning my hopes on the side shoots I pinched out and put in pots.  Never realised you could do this till my father in law pointed it out.  So, instead of wasting the sideshoots.. i have plenty of late tomatoes coming on!  :-)  Just stick 'em in a pot and they grow fine! :-)

[MikePike]

My shallotes and parsnips are really coming on, but me cucumbers are going a bit bad. not sure how to bring the life back into them.
And as for rain, it aint stopping down here, like the damn wind!
Also my chilly plants are deteriorating on the edges of the leaves, i think this may be the contact on the walls with the wind. I can't think of anything else it can be as it does seem to be on only one side of the plant.

[Fluffywelshsheep]

hiya all
My garden is going great gun (i didn't think i would be saying that this year)

Everything i planted have been going brilliant apart from too things the pak choi and the carrots (both got effected by the weather)

Tatties got blight BUT !!!! they are edible and i put some more tatties in a bit later and they are doing okay
must take photos soon.