GARDEN UPDATE

Hello all gardeners, it has been a while since i last blogged and it was because  have not been to well and my disability had stopped me from doing most things . Any how i have been lucky to have had a good crop of tomatoes such as shirley -sweet million  and alicanti. To be honest with you  they grew better than i expected seeing that my wife and son were looking after them while i was in hospital for 4 weeks. I am afraid the runner beans were not to good at all because the slugs and snails took control so they were a disaster. Now as to the onions believe it or not they have come on wonderful and should have them about 4-5lbs in weight so i will not be complaining. I have said many times about the feeding of onions and i have not changed my routine now for many years and i still get good results and my way is very simple. first of all i only grow them out in the garden in pots and not in the green house. I do understand that you do have to put up with all the different elements  which can cause damage but that is what gardening is all about. The first thing i do when they are ready for the pots is to put polythene under the pot so that when they get watered it does not go straight into the ground and will always keep the soil-compost moist in other words they wont dry out. We now come to the feeding  system when the plants have been in there growing position for 2 weeks i start to feed them  lightly with seaweed extract once a week  for one month.  when the month is up i feed cempack no 2   every 3 weeks  but in between i give them  water from my horse manure tub. That about it for now but i will be back..       

NEW SEED HAS ARRIVED FOR 2016 (MORE TO COME)

As the heading says some of the seeds that i ordered have arrived so i will be sowing some of them this week end. My first ones to sow will be the onions and as most gardeners will know they will need to be sown early to get a  descent size one. This year i am looking to get one around 6-8lbs in   weight  which will be fine for entering the veg shows later in the year. This year i am a little in front as to getting my mixes ready for sowing so i can say that is a good job done. At the end of last year my sons took me to ware i get my compost from and purchased what i needed for this year  and by the looks of it i have saved a couple of pounds by doing that. The onions that i will be growing this year are  Robinsons Mammoth and  Giant russian i will also sow a few Kelsae seeds which i had left over from last year and if they are successful in turning into plants will give them to my daughter who likes to grow veg as well. That is all for now the next blogg will be on the 10-1-2016

The Start of another year 2016

Now that's a new year started, I am hoping that I will have a better season on the garden then last year. The problem I had last year was mainly due to bad health, for example breathing, walking and bending, but I must say I am a little better now. I am hoping to blog fairly often in the future on how I am  progressing with growing toms, onions, runner beans and a few different sorts of flowers. In the past I have not put a lot of images on my blog so I will improve on that.This is only a shot blog just to start 2016 off. So I would like to wish all the bloggers a good season.