UK Veg Gardeners

Success or Failure, Free or purchashed

Well folks its been an interesting time since I last posted, no more so than my in ability to actually use Blogger.   During the last week or so I have been fortunate enough to acquire 16  3ft x 2ft  and 14 2ft x 2ft paving slabs for the bases of my two 2nd hand greenhouses.  I duly loaded said slabs on to my trailer and towed them the 55 miles home only to be informed that the probably weigh about a ton and a half.My poor wee car!!.  My first sowing of celery which was 28/1/12 succumbed to damping off and I have only 9 plants left.  I will get a post of them tomorrow.  Due to family commitments I was away from home most of this week which has left me with a huge amount of work over the coming seven days. Fortunately my watering system worked and no real damage has been done, except my carrots are now at least 10 days late.
I also picked up 30x 3 ltr pots 70 x7 cm square pots and 5x4 ltrs pot at my local recycling point "Moray Waste Busters" for the Princely sum of £2.50.  
Above are my onions for the 250 gms class. Currently in 9 cm pots but will be getting potted up to 1 ltr pots shortly. I have two varieties centro and globo.  This is my first attempt at growing for the 250 gms class so lets keep our fingers crossed.  I'm happy with them so far.
This is my Kelsea onions which I hope to get ready for the 1 to 1.5 kg class or as big as I can get them.  I will be potting these onions on this coming week into 3 ltr pots.  
This is what my Parsnip bad looked like on Tuesday morning.  There was 5 inch of snow.  I really need a poly tunnel!!

This was my Shallot and red onions on the same Tuesday.  I am now not sure of how they will turn out.

Views: 24

Comment by Fred Hogg on April 9, 2012 at 7:40

And down here we moan about drought................

Comment by Darren Blick on April 9, 2012 at 8:51

I'm lucky, I am in the Wessex region and we don't have a hose pipe ban

Apparently we have sufficient water for another 15-20 years stored up

My father was senior manager on Wessex Water and he always said that we'd never have a hose pipe ban

Comment by Teri Sherman on April 9, 2012 at 16:25

Fingers crossed for your 'snips and onions John. Mine are OK I think, we had about three inches all told which all melted by the next day. Not too much damage luckily. Had to bring my seedling inside though as it was so cold in the mini greenhouse. More snow on the cards for later this week. . . :(

Hope your poor car survived its mammoth haulage session! That's some serious backache you're heading for!

Teri xx

Comment by John Martin on April 10, 2012 at 6:46

Hi Terri, The parsnips are looking OK.  I think one station has died off.  My Onions from sets and my Shallots took a fair battering, just the sheer weight of the snow.  I'm going to have to start supporting the oinion leaves if I want ant for showing but dont have supports made.  i'm away with work this week so it will be the weekend before I get them sorted.

Add a Comment

You need to be a member of UK Veg Gardeners to add comments!

Join UK Veg Gardeners

© 2013   Created by Stephen Shirley.

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service