First of the seasons wild strawberries from the garden wild corner in my breakfast bowl of cornflakes this morning. Delicious!
I’m trying to grow grass, seems the weeds are flourishing though
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We use guttering much the same in which to sow our early peas in the greenhouse. They come on well, and when they’re big enough we take the end off of the gutter, and transplant the whole contents into a groove cut into the veg bed. Easy to do - a simple slide - and doesn’t disturb the roots.View attachment 67759View attachment 67760
Knocked these little guttering planters for a few quid tonight. I had a bunch of the roundline stuff left over from guttering the log store plus a couple of clips, so I bought a few end caps and some extra clips and threw them together.
I've filled them with my first lot of homemade compost and sewn a bunch of lettuce in them
I've used exactly the same method for parsnips.We use guttering much the same in which to sow our early peas in the greenhouse. They come on well, and when they’re big enough we take the end off of the gutter, and transplant the whole contents into a groove cut into the veg bed. Easy to do - a simple slide - and doesn’t disturb the roots.
Just to show how worthwhile saving parsnip seed is, we bought a packet of fresh seed from a large UK supplier and had absolutely zero germination. Tried a seed tray in a heated propagator to test and it also failed to germinate. Probably old seed being sold as fresh.Last year I let a few parsnips go to seed so that I had plenty to sow this year. Well, they have been a resounding success to the point that parsnips are coming up everywhere! I've just collected some more parsnip seed and inevitably broadcast it all over the place so I expect I'll be sick to death of parsnips next year.
Absolutely bang on there. I struggled with bought stuff for years but strangely I've used seed I collected that is several years old and had good germination. I really don't know what they do to make packaged parsnip seed so poor.Just to show how worthwhile saving parsnip seed is, we bought a packet of fresh seed from a large UK supplier and had absolutely zero germination. Tried a seed tray in a heated propagator to test and it also failed to germinate. Probably old seed being sold as fresh.
I have no garden wish I had a allotment thoughCan't believe we don't have a thread for this! So here's my little front garden setup:
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Sorry for the bad pic by the way. The only angle I can get is from the front room window! In the two wooden planters I have potatoes, the left bed has 3 rows of onions, and a row of potatoes, the top right bed is rammed with strawberries, the lower right bed has leeks, a courgette (in the middle of the leeks) and a couple of sweetcorn, plus two rows of potatoes, then I have two bucket planters with.... more potatoes! I'm going big on potatoes this year if you haven't guessed.
I'm really looking forward to a big crop of strawberries this year, they are heavily laden, I just need to be vigilant with the birds and slugs! Any tips for that???
How are you all getting on with your patches?