Friday 20th May

I don't know why I even bother making plans! I haven't put the hanging baskets up yet, or made any teepees (although I'll blame that on not having any twine!)

I have:

• Re-potted tomatoes (& moved to greenhouse)
• Re-potted cucumbers (& moved to greenhouse)
• Re-potted lettuces
• Re-potted butternut squash

My peas & calabrese are coming on well and I think they'll need to be hardened off soon to go outside :o)

~Jenny~

Sunday 15th May

I've been re-potting some plants today (and earthing up the potatoes again!) so we now have 3 more courgette plants outside (which all have baby courgettes on them) and a sweet potato plant.

I've been continuing to harden off my beans and I think they're probably ready to stay utside now so my next job is to build some teepees out of bamboo canes (10 for £1 from the poundshop!)

I also need to to re-pot the tomatoes, cucumber & lettuce so I can get them out in the greenhouse and I must put up the hanging baskets (although it is a little windy at the moment)

I wonder what size pots my Butternut Squashes need to go in?

~Jenny~

Food (sort of)

I have a baby courgette on one of my plants! :-)

I had been wondering about how to tell the difference between male & female flowers and this is how I found out:
This is on one of the plants that was still inside so now it needs to be hardened off and go to live in the garden.

~Jenny~

Wednesday 11th May

Been out in the garden again this evening :o)

Here's what I've been up to:

• Re-potted Cayenne Chillies
• Re-potted Bullet Chillies
• Planted Perpetual Spinach
• Planted Mixed Salad Leaves
• Earthed up the potatoes

Really must get the hanging baskets up soon!

~Jenny~

Herb Border

Meant to say on my last post...I'm planning a herb border

Our front garden has just had a spring cleaning and is looking a bit bare in the borders so I'm planning to grow herbs all down the side of the garden.

Just need to choose my herbs now.

~Jenny~

Tuesday 10th May

It's been interesting weather here over the past few days.

Lovely sunny spells and then torrential showers. I had to run outside yesterday evening to quickly put my courgettes & french bean plants in the garage to stop them being drowned!

Last few days I have been:

• Hardening off more courgettes
• Hardening off french beans
• Earthing up the potatoes (again)
• Sown peas
• Sown Broccoli (Calabrese)
• Repotted some peppers

I've bought some more pots...I'm really going to have stop buying them though as I'm going to run out of space. I've also bought 2 hanging baskets, going to have strawberries in one and tumbling toms in the other :o)

~Jenny~

Friday 6th May

Jobs for today:

• Hardening off my Courgettes
• Earthing up the Potatoes
• Prepping pots for Perpetual Spinach, Baby Carrots & Spring Onions
• Move my Peppers to the greenhouse

My courgettes have already started flowering (I'm a little surprised...wasn't expecting that for a while), wonder how long it'll be before I get some food to eat.


I'm also pretty impressed with how fast my potatoes are growing...they need earthing up again today (only did it a couple of days ago!)


~Jenny~