More of the same

Planted out rudbeckias and sunflowers. And helechrysum and scabious:


Thinned out larkspurs and centaurea. Busy lizzies, verbena and runner beans moved to coldframe.

Tomotoes

Tomatoes planted out in growbags in greenhouse:

Broad beans

Started picking these today:

Broad beans and early peas

Busy

21.5 - Potted on busy lizzies. Moved following to coldframe: rudbeckias, scabious, helichrysum, leeks, bells if ireland, sunflowers. Sown helenium hoopsii (hp), and runner beans to replace those lost to that frost.

Frost

Frost - took the tops of the potatoes, killed most of the dahlias, cleomes and the tops of the runner and french beans poking up in coldframe. That should teach me, but it probably won't.

Planting Out

Planted out dianthus and carnations:


Statice and cleome:


Dahlias and cosmos:

Greenhouse and coldframes

This is how the greenhouse and coldframes are looking today:

May Day

May Day - up the workers! Put up supports for first row of peas:

First swifts

Planted out sweet peas, brussels and cabbages . Dianthus and dahlias moved to coldframe. Potted on antirrhinums and rudbekias. Lovely growing weather, apple tree blossom is coming out, saw the first swifts over the site. Harvested the last leeks and broccoli spears - eating the leaves now!

In the greenhouse

This is how the greenhouse was looking today:

Full Moon

More sowing in the greenhouse - runner and french beans, sunflowers. Got a few brassicas and lettuce out into the coldframe. Started pinching out antirrhinums, cosmos and dianthus. Mulched broad beans with garden compost. Spread fish,blood and bone over areas yet to be sown/planted.

Mulching broad beans

Cracking on

Did some pricking out and potting up, planted out main crop spuds and sowed another row of peas. Dug and mucked trenches for runner beans and sweet peas. Sowed some annuals outside. Busy potting on for a little while most evenings - brassicas, lettuce, flowers. Spring days: everything leafing up, little birds dashing about, the light!

Broccoli

Started harvesting the purple sprouting today:

In the potting shed

Pricking out antirrhinums:

The last winter parsnips

Can't complain about the size of these:

Planting early potatoes

First sowings outside - peas

Peas sown in a wide flat-bottomed drill:

Planting onion sets