2010 Gardening

Couldn't wait any more, last Sunday (31st Jan 10) I planted a few different types of chillies, in my new heated propagator :o), some leeks, some peas, and some broad beans.
This year I'm going to put some recipes on the blog along with some pictures of my fine culinary creations ;o)

Ordered some steaks from the Argentinian online butchers Pampas Plains - highly recommended if your a meat lover!

Invasion of the gnomes!

20th July 2009 is the day it all started, pictured below is the first of the gnome that mysteriously arrived in my garden!

Since then more have arrived almost every day!

Still not got to the bottom of who is doing it :)




Number 2



Number 3



Number 4, a change of style.




Worms now!




And back to gnomes!



Chillin'



... now a turtle!!



Other ornaments include a watering can and more worms!!

Got married on the 12th June 09, here's a quick pic.

Garden update

Everything's going great guns now, spent most of the day potting on, trying to shake a hangover after my stag-do yesterday.
Here's some pics :)


Peppers in growbags today, plastic greenhouse!


Tomatoes (Gardeners Delight and Moneymaker)


Chillies


Potatoes


Lots of peas :)


Carrots, sweetpeas and garlic.

Time for an update, done lots since the last post, lots of growth, and very nice weather for the last couple of weeks.


New shed put up a few weeks ago. Happy Days :)


Peas seem to be doing well.



Potatoes, (Jersey Royals) coming on nicely


Some Chilli and Peppers, lots more on the way.


Tomato "Gardener's Delight"

Has a busy day yesterday. Finally pulled the old shed down in readiness for the new one, hopefully coming next Friday. Managed to do it only getting hailed on once!
Just need to lay some flags down and level off, then I'm ready to build.
Before and after :-







I also did my first planting in toilet rolls. Microwaved them for 1 minute first (to kill the fungus in the glue apparently). Planted 5 Sweetcorn Earlisweet and 5 Early Onward Peas.
I also sowed 22 Marigold seeds in a windowsill propagator.
4 Tomato "Gardeners' Delight" looked like they were doing well so I put them in 3" pots.

Planted 4x Earlisweet Sweetcorn inside in pots today.

Here are some pics from finished plot with the sweet peas garlic and carrots, and greenhouse (that only just survived the recent wind)