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Sunday 29 January 2012
There was I, boots on, spinach seeds in one hand, onion sets in the other and as I opened the door................so the heavens opened and down came the rain. Oh well its early in the year, I'll just have to postpone for a while.
sorry Deb.............this is the first year i have tried spinach, I chose it because all the books say you can plant it as early as January. This year, despite only having a very small veg plot I want to try to keep it going all year with different crops. So far this year I've planted broad beans, garlic and shallots in November. the shallots have not sprouted yet but the others have. I've bought spinach, radishes and red onion sets to plant in January and I intend to put in a second line of broad beans as well. I keep looking and wondering how I can reclaim a bit more of the small garden to grow veg in.
i'll sure keep my fingers crossed for your veg, ma'am. it's a bit frustrating for me.......because the lettuce is doing great, as have the garlic and carrots. now i am wondering if it was a bad batch of seeds, perhaps? i suppose i will just have to experiment and plant a different brand of seeds the next time.
my lettuce did great last year, I just kept pulling a few leaves every day and I had fresh salad leaves for ages. This year i am going to plant fewer at a time but plant them more often. My radishes did quite well last year, except that some of them were really badly eaten by something.............any advice on that??
i found a UK link for you to peruse. i would recommend insecticidal soap, as soon as you see those nasty little varmints. a bit of research just now tells me that some folks recommend floating row covers for radishes as a barrier, too.
i LOVE French Breakfast radishes, those are still my favorites.
oh absolutely.............no rain is a whole lot worse...........just a shame I was literally at the door and ready to go. But I guess it would have been a whole lot worse if it were 15 mins later and i had every thing out of the shed and was in the middle of planting..........so generally , I guess its not too bad.
thanks Deb, that seems like a good site, will bookmark it. Funny how I never used to like radishes. I'm vegetarian and I always used to say that radishes were the only 'vegetable' I disliked. then I grew my own and I love them.......well I loved the ones those horrid little bugs didn't eat, I hope to have more success this year.
Wishing you the best of luck with the fresh vegetables this year. As inconvenient as it may have been, that downpour will be a help in getting the garden patch going. The satisfaction from growing your own vegetables just feels so good and so right.
Hi Bennett..........and happy traveling..............I thought of you on Friday, I discovered an American girl I work with comes from California and has a beach house there. She rents it out but has never sold it because she intends to return there one day. I thought of you when she told me.
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ReplyDeleteBTW........the Spinach did not do so well for us. do you have any advice for me?
ReplyDeletesorry Deb.............this is the first year i have tried spinach, I chose it because all the books say you can plant it as early as January. This year, despite only having a very small veg plot I want to try to keep it going all year with different crops. So far this year I've planted broad beans, garlic and shallots in November. the shallots have not sprouted yet but the others have. I've bought spinach, radishes and red onion sets to plant in January and I intend to put in a second line of broad beans as well. I keep looking and wondering how I can reclaim a bit more of the small garden to grow veg in.
ReplyDeletei'll sure keep my fingers crossed for your veg, ma'am. it's a bit frustrating for me.......because the lettuce is doing great, as have the garlic and carrots. now i am wondering if it was a bad batch of seeds, perhaps? i suppose i will just have to experiment and plant a different brand of seeds the next time.
ReplyDeletemy lettuce did great last year, I just kept pulling a few leaves every day and I had fresh salad leaves for ages. This year i am going to plant fewer at a time but plant them more often. My radishes did quite well last year, except that some of them were really badly eaten by something.............any advice on that??
ReplyDeletei found a UK link for you to peruse. i would recommend insecticidal soap, as soon as you see those nasty little varmints. a bit of research just now tells me that some folks recommend floating row covers for radishes as a barrier, too.
ReplyDeletei LOVE French Breakfast radishes, those are still my favorites.
http://uktv.co.uk/home/stepbystep/aid/585754
Too bad. But it's still early and no rain at all is a whole lot worse.
ReplyDeleteoh absolutely.............no rain is a whole lot worse...........just a shame I was literally at the door and ready to go. But I guess it would have been a whole lot worse if it were 15 mins later and i had every thing out of the shed and was in the middle of planting..........so generally , I guess its not too bad.
ReplyDeletethanks Deb, that seems like a good site, will bookmark it. Funny how I never used to like radishes. I'm vegetarian and I always used to say that radishes were the only 'vegetable' I disliked. then I grew my own and I love them.......well I loved the ones those horrid little bugs didn't eat, I hope to have more success this year.
ReplyDelete*fingers crossed for your radishes*
ReplyDeleteYou can send some of that rain this way!
ReplyDeletereally?/............you mean its too dry there already in the year?? that does not bode well for the summer.
ReplyDeletesame for us here in North Carolina too, Loretta. local weather folks have already said we are in a mild drought.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe there are places facing drought in January..................that's virtually unheard of
ReplyDeletei know, it really is a bit worrying.
ReplyDeletemany vegetables taste different when home grown versus
ReplyDeletethere are many i only like that way
:)
Wishing you the best of luck with the fresh vegetables this year. As inconvenient as it may have been, that downpour will be a help in getting the garden patch going. The satisfaction from growing your own vegetables just feels so good and so right.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, I so look forward to growing more and more of my own
ReplyDeleteyou have more choice in the variety of veg also
ReplyDeletemost store bought are what grows for big commercial operations
not necessarily for taste
:)
Oh how I envy you!!! Maybe I will try to do some planting in Florida. We left Michigan today and it was 20 C which is well below freezing.
ReplyDeleteHi Bennett..........and happy traveling..............I thought of you on Friday, I discovered an American girl I work with comes from California and has a beach house there. She rents it out but has never sold it because she intends to return there one day. I thought of you when she told me.
ReplyDeletePretty much the same weather as here. Just as well I'm not doing any planting!!!
ReplyDeleteneither did I today...............I did nothing at all all day and now I'm tired and restless.
ReplyDeleteMy day consisted of a 4 hour drive to Heathrow to see off Joanne, then another 4 hour drive back with a snowstorm thrown in for good measure!!
ReplyDeleteoh that week passed really quickly................but I bet you enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteYes, it went far too quickly!! We had a great time though :-))
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