Showing posts with label squashes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label squashes. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 June 2007

Growth and Plans

Well it has been a busy week though not for me in the garden unfortunately, the weather hasn't let me get out much. Things are growing nicely without me though and it looks like I will have blueberries this year - yum.

I've had a trip up north to my parents where me and my pa constructed a rather spectacular frame for his peas to climb up. Here is the Eighth Wonder Of The World:


I did get a bit of a fright when I went out one morning and all my brocolli and sprouts had completely wilted - a complete mystery as they weren't too dry or waterlogged and there were no beasties to be seen. I had a panic but the next day they had all totally righted themselves and are starting to form heads of broccoli.

The squashes are growing well too though I can't remember what type this is:

And then the plans...I have decided and persuaded Mr Butternut that it makes sense to dig up a lot more the back garden to create three raised beds. I want to put asparagus in one and then include the other two in the vegetable rotation but next year use one for salads and the other for strawberries. I am also planning things for the front garden which is such a mess that I am too ashamed to post a photo. We are having some building work done but once this is finished I'll be able to tidy it up and completely re-design it - very exciting!

Friday, 15 June 2007

Job Done

Lots of activity in the garden today so I am just doing a list to help with my memory...
  • Potted on the purple-sprouting broccoli and basil
  • Planted out the leeks (hannibal variety) and sowed another row
  • Planted three more rows of beetroot (detroit globe) and two rows of swedes
  • Planted out my butternut squash and jack o'lantern pumpkins
  • Planted out chamomile round the blueberry bush
  • Planted out a mystery squash near the strawberries
  • Weeded like a demon
  • Trying to get the lawnmower to work with no success
  • Tidied out the greenhouse again and chatted to my plants

Sunday, 3 June 2007

I Love Sundays...

Well I've been having a great weekend with no housework to do so I've been getting through all those jobs that you put off for weeks. Sewing up the broken seam on Wee Man's bed and handwashing are good examples! And I finally got out in the garden with my camera.

Spent some time today potting up my butternut squash seedlings, planting out buttercup squash plants, bringing some herbs indoors for my kitchen windowsill, weeding (as always) and eating radishes. Here is the evidence.













And then I have a question for anyone out there reading this... Do my leeks look rubbish? I'm worried that they'll never to ready in time for planting out.