Wednesday 28 March 2012

set up the garden




Finally 1 week of work and luckily was a sunny week, but a bit cold at night. I had a project to do and I decide to do in this nice week. I’m going to grow everything in pot and I noticed that the cordon tomatoes are not secure enough with some bamboo canes or metal spiral and considered that here is so windy all my tomatoes will just fall on the floor so I build a kind of pergola that will help to hold in place the metal spiral and plus as you can see from the picture on the 4 front posts I will let climb some nasturtium and I will put 3 hanging baskets with some tumbler and garden perl tomato .

 
For the same reason ( windy area) I thought to build 2 veg cages for my 2 containers’  beds, with a layer of fleece around and on top with net curtain for ventilation for the morning and at night I will put a fleece to protect them… plus doing that I protect the brassicas, the carrots and any veg that will grow in there from pest ( I hate aphids and carrot fly, they ruin your hard work).
Now my garden is set up soon I will start to fill up the main pots with the seedling that for now the are in and out the greenhouses ( as I said is been quite cold at night and I don’t want to loose my baby veggy….

Wednesday 7 March 2012

spring is coming


This week is been a lovely week... the sun was out, the temperature was worm and my crocus are in flower….that make me feel that spring is definitely in the air…





I decided to do some potting and seeding....
I start to transplant a lot of my seedling that with this sun they really grown fast and the true leaves were coming through...
I transplant in 10 cm pots:
4 tomatoes money-maker
1 tomato garden delight
5 French marigold

Plus because I was excited I thought as well to try some squash as a trial even if I know that Is way too early to start but I did anyway because it sound weird but in Italy is a delicatessen eat a plate a pasta with a courgette leaves, so I will eat only the young leaves.
What I transplant then was:
1 pumpkin big max
1 butternut squash
1 courgette black beauty
1sweet pepper California wonder
2 courgette striato d’italia


After that I thought to fill up the propagator with more seeds so I decided to put a new batch in it :
2 basil sweet Genovese
2 tomatoes tumbler
2 kale dwarfs curled
2 sweet pepper minimix
2 sweet pepper California wonder
10 leek prize taker…
I did all this on Monday and today I finally pick up from post office my new birthday present from my fiancé: a wormery

I just finish to build it up and now just wait about 3 weeks and I can start to feed them  with kitchen waste… this year is going to be a busy garden… I’m already excited