Growbags and Greenhouses -The WB Garden Blog

The couple of weeks has been very rainy – which has rather made it difficult to do much in the garden not that I’ve had much spare time anyway. I have managed to plant some bedding plants in the front garden (they’ve been hanging around for a week waiting…) which has made it look rather better.

 In the veg patches, all the broad beans are in and rows 1 and 2 are flowering away now. The picture below show how they were a few days ago:

I’ve managed to get three tomato plants into a growbag at last (outside greenhouse) – they are all cherry type. Just tonight some of the lettuce have finally made into the garden – just another 50 or so in the tray….

Inside the greenhouse, some olive type tomatos are through at last, along with some french and runner beans – well better late than never.. Various other things haven’t appeared, so it’s a bit depressing really, and I need to have another planting session otherwise there will be a large section of garden with nothing in (not to mention several empty growbags and a half-empty greenhouse).

The weather has cleared up a bit now, but still showery. The result of all the rain of course has meant that the grass need cutting again, and the hedges as well of course – the problem is just when I will have time…

The weather continues to be essentially fine, though not always sunny – a few drops of rain today but not enough to even wet the ground. So the watering can has been kept busy.

More broad beans are now in the ground so it amounts to about two and just over a half rows (I put the last half-a-dozen in this afternoon). Some are even have flower buds now, and the first row has canes and string for support.

The rocket and radishes are coming along well and some of the carrot seeds are showing through now. The onions are all up nicely, but no sign of potatoes yet.

Inside the greenhouse the story isn’t so good. Although more of the tomatos have germinated they are all the cherry variety – non of the olive type have made it. Also, no more peppers have made a showing – even some are new seed. French and runner beans haven’t shown yet either – though they may yet make it from the second sowing I made. I’m beginning to think that the growing medium isn’t helping – like a lot of potting compost now it is peat free and seems to be mainly comminuted wood etc. – I think it can stay too wet. To check theis I’ve bought some loam based ‘John Innes No1′ to sow some other seeds into, so we’ll see how they go – I’ve put in some more (new) runners today as well as some new chilli peppers. I also used the ‘JI No1′ for a tray with thyme and basil seeds.

The only thing growing well in the greenhouse is the tray of lettuce which I really will have to plant out soon.

Outside I planted short rows of parsley and beet today.

The growbags are ready – so the tomatos can go in sometime this week – and probably will be the outside ones first.

Meanwhile hedge cutting is under way – with a lot more to do yet….