Loadsaphotos!!

Aerial view of the garden!

Strawberries in bags!

Home-made strawberry hanging bag!

Runner beans!

Bootfair Rhubarb!

6 pumpkin plants

Carrots

Lettuces

Spuds

Cabbages

Onions!

Lettuces to be re-planted

Our 1st fruit!!

Pepper plant & 2 'Alice' Strawberry plants

5 cucumber plants

We've had loads of things coming up in the past few weeks. The bit of sunshine we've had recently has done wonders to accelerate the growing of our veggies - and there's nothing like watering them after a scorching hot day, you can almost hear them gulping up the water!!

Had a near disaster with one of the troughs of lettuces - somehow forgot to water them on Sunday evening and by Monday morning they had totally wilted, but after a quick thorough water they perked up, so all is well.

We've transplanted the strawberries into bags which are now hanging on the fence - hopefully the bees will get to work and we'll have some flowers coming through soon.

The next job is to move the lettuces out of the troughs into 2 large flexi-tubs in the garden - unfortunately have no more room in the actual ground, unless we dig up the lawn. Maybe next year, eh kids?

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Crops galore!

Spent a few hours out in the garden this afternoon re-planting plants from the tubs into the ground!!
So we now have in the ground in the garden: onions (white & red), cabbages, potatoes, carrots, more cabbages and at the end, 6 large pumpkin plants!!
Got to buy a couple of large tubs for the lettuces and i've re-potted the cucumber plants into a trough (if they get too big for it, Graham is going to make a large planter to go by the wall).
Am also going out this week to buy a hanging bag for the strawberry plants to go in.
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Beans re-homing!!

Had a lovely couple of hours out in the garden this afternoon. Graham did some much needed weeding and I re-planted the runner beans into their new home - 2 lovely big bright tubs, where I am sure they will be very happy.



Each tub has 5 canes so they've got plenty of climbing room and will hopefully give us plenty of big beans!!



We actually ended up with more bean plants than I originally thought we had because although some of the seeds looked as though they hadn't germinated, i'd obviously put the seeds too deep in the soil in the trays because their leaves were hidden under the soil. So I gently coaxed them out and i've planted them with the big strong plants - hopefully they'll do just as well.



The slugs had already had a good munch on the bean seedings while they were in the green house (a couple had absolutely no leaves, just the stalks!!) so i've copied a tip I heard on the TV the other week and put a ring of vaseline around the top of each pot - aparently it makes it harder for slugs and snails to grip and climb up the pot. I've also put some slug pellets in the pots as a second line of defence!!



Saw some lovely 'climbing' green net in Homebase at the weekend (nice and thick with big holes) - just right for when my cucumbers take off. I'm going to grow them out of large troughs up the netting against the wall where we get lots of sun for half the day - am hoping to get a good crop because our guinea pigs (all 6 of them) absolutely love them, especially when it's hot.



Next job on the list is to plant the cabbages and lettuces that we've grow in the troughs, but I dont think that will be for a few weeks yet cos they are still quite small - want to give them a fighting chance of surviving before we put them in the ground.



Got a small problem with the Honeysuckle plants I planted last week, one of the plant's leaves are covered in black patches. Not sure what's caused it but it's weird it's not on both plants - will have to do some searching on the web.



Am glad Lynn has got some crops growing - i've someone to talk to about this gardening business who is properly interested and not just humouring me, lol!!!



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To catch a criminal!!!

Lots of pics at the top of this post!! The 1st is of a crime committed in the relative 'safety' of the greenhouse!!! I noticed Saturday morning my lovely pepper plant and also one of my 'Alice' strawberry plants had been munched on over night and after a thorough search of the surrounding area I found the culprit - this little tiny slug!!! Needless to say, plenty of slug pellets have now gone down around the perimeter in the hope of of keeping out any other 'copy cat' criminals!!

Pic 3 is of my carrot seeds, coming up nicely but to delicate to be transplanted anywhere at the moment.

Pic 4 is of my lettuces (at the rear) which have now been re-planted into a couple of troughs to give them room to spread and grow before they go into the ground. In the front of the tray on the right you can just make out my cucumber plants starting to come through - unfortunately the pepper seeds on the left haven't made an appearance as of yet.

Pic 5 is of my runner beans that I grew in tissue paper/jam jar indoors that have now been put into pots.

And finally Pic 6 is my cabbages which have also been re-planted into troughs until they are big enough to go into the ground.

I also have a tray of runner beans coming up nicely, so lots of veggies to go into the gaden which does present us with a small problem - we dont think we're going to have enough room!! So it looks like the lawn in the front of the shed may have to be dug up to make room for the runner beans - but needs must when growing veggies!!

I have one tray in the greenhouse which is still bare of any seedlings and that is the one with pumpkin seeds in (Milly's idea). I'm hoping that maybe they are waiting for the really warm summer weather before they make an appearance (would make sense as they are usually harvested early winter). Will keep you posted on that one!!

I have another few additions to my garden - GNOMES!! Nuff said! ;-)