First peas and beans just showing
Nov 03, 2020
First peas and beans just poking through.
Autumn sowing - peas, beans and garlic
Oct 22, 2020
Sowed a row of Kelvedon Wonder peas (about 130), and five short rows of Aquadulce broad beans as well as 18 of own saved garlic cloves. Pinch of Rootgrow in each garlic planting hole.
Peas and beans soaked over night and sprinked with parafin to discourage mice.
Moon and Venus over Chûn Quoit
Oct 14, 2020
Moon and Venus rising over Chûn Quoit. Taken with huawei p30 pro. Hand-held on a chilly morning so there is a little shake.
Best opened in new tab/window and zoomed in a bit. Both Moon and Venus really are there!
Moon and Venus rising over Chûn Quoit
Sweetcorn swift F1 sown
Mar 15, 2020
Sweetcorn Swift f1 sown
Tomatoes have first true leaves
Feb 06, 2020
About 20 days after sowing. Tomatoes in propagator in greenhouse just showing first true leaves
First true leaves on tomatoes
Melons Sown
Jan 29, 2020
Melons Galia Lavi Gal F1 sown in propagator in greenhouse
Aubergine Moneymaker seedlings are through.
Jan 21, 2020
About ten days after sowing. Aubergine Moneymaker seedlings are through.
Tomato seedlings through. Cucumbers sown
Jan 15, 2020
Tomatoes Gardener’s Delight and Mandarin seedings are through and now under a light. Cucumber Baby F1 seeds sown in propagator
Senshyu autumn onions now have roots
Oct 14, 2019
We set out the autumn onions (Senshyu) about a week ago and a few jump out, or are pulled out, each day. They now have roots.
Senshyu onions with roots
Sweetcorn Harvest
Aug 14, 2019
Sweetcorn harvest well underway. We have about 8 or 9 in the freezer and have eaten about the same number.
We grew the variety Swift, an F1. Sown in plug trays 14 March in greenhouse on the propagator; planted out last week of April in a 5 by 5 block. The wind got two rows so we were left with a 3 by 5 block.
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