Special Spinach and Scrummy Strawberries Harvest
Posted on 17. Jun, 2007 by Tracey.
Special Spinach
Week 10 since I sowed my first seeds and I have been harvesting my baby spinach (Variety – Tirza) for the past few weeks now, it is brilliant I can pull a few leaves off and go back a couple of days later to find more leaves growing, a sort of cut and come [...]
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Slug Fest!
Posted on 03. Jun, 2007 by Tracey.
My lettuces have been munched and most have been completed destroyed by something. At first I couldn’t work out what the pest was but had a funny suspicion that even though I couldn’t see any slugs or slime trail, it must be them – Slugs.
So I ordered some Nemotodes – an organic natural way [...]
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Attack of the Killer Aphids!
Posted on 13. May, 2007 by Tracey.
The little blighters, those peskey aphids, blackfly and greenfly have been at my Tomato’s!
Mission Destroy Aphid (MDA) has been activated and will operate a cleanup operation to de-aphid all the tomato plants within a radius of my mini greenhouse.
Mission MDA has been deployed and so far has been successful to eradicate the enemy!
A Monitoring [...]
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Radish Harvest – Delicious
Posted on 13. May, 2007 by Tracey.
The Radish Harvest is Today!
This is my first vegetable to be harvested off my own back garden plot 1. This is an achievement even though it is only a mere radish.
In 5 weeks from seed to plate, you to could be harvesting your own radishes, I recommend anyone to give this ago.
Radish – French [...]
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Radish’s ready to harvest in 4 weeks
Posted on 09. May, 2007 by Tracey.
I took a great picture of my Radishes which are bursting with red colour on their tops. Radishes are quick and easy to grow said the seed packet. I now have to agree as within 4 weeks these have grown and fattened up. As these are so fast growing, they have given me a confidence [...]
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Bean Poles, Polytunnel and more Sowings
Posted on 07. May, 2007 by Tracey.
A busy day today, I have got loads done on a day that could easily be the windiest day of the year! Today I have been mostly fixing the Bean poles together with string on Plot 3, constructing my cheap polytunnel and doing some succesional sowings on Plot 1 & 2.
Plot 3 – Bean Poles
I [...]
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Modern Garden Art and Peas
Posted on 05. May, 2007 by Tracey.
Today I was mostly growing peas on Plot 3. I created two mini wigwams using 3-4 bamboo canes cut in half (approx 2m) and held them in place with a cane holder. Three peas were sown at the bottom of each cane.
Varieties of Pea used were Hurst Green Shaft and Calibre (petit pois).
The Bean wigwam [...]
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Plot 3 – Beans & Peas Plot
Posted on 23. Apr, 2007 by Tracey.
Sunday I had all the intentions of filling up the 3rd raised bed from sieving the topsoil from our garden beds however it could only happen to me!
On the first barrow full I managed to dig up a red ants nest so they were all running about in the wheel barrow. I had to tip [...]
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Yipee! Seedlings have appeared on my Plots
Posted on 16. Apr, 2007 by Tracey.
Looks like the preparation and my patience has paid off and even though next doors cats have been on my plots (paw prints in the soil), my first seedlings have appeared which were sown only a week ago (10.04.07).
I would imagine the quick germination is down to the warm temperatures and periods of sunshine we [...]
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Square Foot Gardening
Posted on 12. Apr, 2007 by Tracey.
Well it seems there is an actual documented technique to what I was doing with my 16 cubes/squares on my plots without me even knowing it, its called Square Foot Gardening written by Mel Bartholemew.
I was wondering whether I had spaced my seeds rows too close together as some of the seed packets say 30 [...]
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