UP DATE ON THIS YEARS GROWING 2015

Not been on the blogg for about 4 months so i thought i would give an update on how tings have been progressing.  First of all the toms that i have grown have done really well and are now producing a lot off fruit. The one that i am very pleased with is called NIMBUS F1 which was sent to me by dtbrown as a trial packet. I must say  that i am very impressed with the results and i think it could do well in shows. The only thing that might be against it is that it does have slight ribs on them but it would be worth having a go to see what results would be.  The second one i grew was shirley and that has grown very well and again they have slight ribs in them as well. There is very little difference in size and the circumference are almost the same nice and round but with that little rib. The third one i grew was the old favorite  gardeners delight and that one never seems to fail as it always has an abundant of fruit. The final one was Sungold f1 ,this one i grew last year and i was so impressed with it even my wife asked me to grow it mainly because of its sweetness.

On to the onions, I must first say that that this year i am with out any doubt 2 months behind in growing and again it is all down to my medical condition which up to now i have been put into hospital on 3 occasions this year and i am only glad to think that my wife and son has done well for me to have got to the growing stage ware i am now. Any how the onions this year are the showmaster strain from marshalls and up to this day they are 15 inches in circumference  so i will still feed and let them grow for another 8 weeks and by then they should not be to bad a size .the other onion i grew was Russian onion from seed and i was pleased to get them to germinate so quick they are about 5inches in circumference so i will grow them earlier next year all being well.


RUNNER BEANS
This year i have tried 2 sorts and i must say that up to now i am not to pleased with the  results.
They are firestorm   and moonlight. I do realize that this has not been a good year for beans and quite a few gardeners that i know has said the same. We do have to take into account the weather and as all will know has not been to good but i am afraid there is little we can do about it.
Well this all for now will update later on.

A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER AGAIN SO BACK IN THE GREEN HOUSE

When ever i say the weather is going to get better it always goes the other way so what do you do  say nothing is best. Any way i received the rest of the seeds today that i ordered from DT BROWN and i must say they were very quick with there delivery. Apart from my order they sent me trial seeds of tomatoes called nimbus fi so i will get them sewn tomorrow and see how they progress and give a feed back.

Now that the beans have arrived i will get 46 3inch pots ready to fill with compost so i can plant the seed when ready. As you all will know they dont take very long to show there growth.
My son took me out today for a ride and we went to a place called  WATTS  STORE  and i purchased 3 bags of horse manure/compost for £5-00 which was not to bad. My reason for getting them is that i will mix it with my compost for the onion buckets, mind you there will be other adds to it so i can get good growth.
I think i have said at some stage i dont grow onions in the green house as much as i would like to but i do give what ever i grow out side the best care that i can give. The biggest problem we get is making sure as much as possible to keep them clear from onion fly and  butterflies. There is one thing i do keep my eye on and that is making sure they dont get onion rot which most will know can be caused by to much water.
Will close now and give update later on.  

THE WEATHER SHOULD GET BETTER FROM NOW ON

What a .lovely 3 days of weather we have had here in pontypool. It has been that good myself and my son have done more than we thought we would do, we got the bean sections all done ready to put the canes up which does not take long  and just to let you all know that in the first row i will be planting the bean called FIRESTORM. In the seconed row i will be  growing beans called MOONLIGHT. I have not grown these before so it will be interesting to see the results. By the side of the beans i will be growing  my onions in buckets which will be a total  of 18 and the name of them is a onion that i grew a long time ago called showmaster and i did get good results. The reason why i am growing them is that i was to late in sowing any onion seed  so i ordered the showmaster plants. Perhaps i should not have said it was to late to grow onion seed but if you want to grow big onions for shows you do have to sew the seed early to give them a good 22-24 weeks growth. after saying that my son let us try and see how a few late sown onion seed will turn out so we planted about a dozen i will give an update on them at a later date. I have changed my mind as to which tomatoes i am going to grow and decided to have a go with SHIRLEY-AND SWEET100 FI and a few old the old faithful GARDENERS DELIGHT. As to the carrots i will be growing long red intermediate in pipes which are 5ft long and 6 inches wide these will not be for showing but just to see i can get them longer than the last ones i grew which were 4ft-2inches long. The stump carrots i am going to grow is the sweet candle  and they will be grown by the side of the onions. It is getting late now so i will close and give more info later on.

GETTING POTS AND TRAYS READY FOR SEED.

For the last day or two i have been sorting out which trays i will be using for different types of seed. My reason for this is because over the past years i have learned that some types of  plants when germinated do need to have plenty of room to grow especially if the are inclined to get on the bushy side. What i have just stated might not make sense to some people but it is what i have noticed over the years and i have always had good results. Not only do they grow better but it makes it much easier when transplanting. As most of gardeners will know that pricking out for transplanting can be a bit of a pain and also it can take time so the more you can do to eliminate problems the better it will be.
Re to the trays and pots it will depend on what seed i am going to sow for instance if i am going to grow  flowers i use trays with individual cells which could hold up to 30 plants and that they are very easy to transplant  into bigger pots when required.  With other trays they will have be bigger in-depth  as those will be the ones i will use for my onion seed as i have learnt that they do not to like to be disturbed to much and by being sown in bigger pots you will nearly always get good results..
In my last blogg i said that i will be growing tomatoes and the ones for this year will be
shirley  sweet million and gardeners delight. I will be sowing them this week as there is plenty time for them to grow. I do think that you can some times grow things far to early and by doing that you can come across. problems  ie they can get leggy plus other problems.
In my next blogg i will tell you how i plant my tomato plants. cheers for now.   .

THE START OF 2015 0N THE GARDEN.AND RESULTS FROM 2014

First off all it has been about 10 months since i last gave an update on the blogg and it has mainly beeen down to illness but i  am hoping 2015 will be better. Regards to last years results i have very little to say except that with the help of my sons i did manage to get a decent show of benchmaster runner beans and a reasonable show of kelsae onions which quite a few grew to 4lb in weight so that was not to bad. As to the carrots it was not so good as they only grew to about 18- 24 inches long. In my 10ft green house i did have a very good show of tomatoes which consist of sungold fi, gardeners delight,and sweet million . This year i am afraid i will be a bit late in growing but i will give an update on how things are are progressing.
This year i intend to grow
onions
carrots
runner beans
tomatoes    
beetroot.
This is all for now happy gardeing.