It’s May 8th and I’m just starting to get out on the plot now. It’s rained every day for ages. Can’t wait to get planting now! Happy growing and hoeing!
In hindsight, not being part of the race to produce the earliest potatoes, delaying planting certainly pays off for me, plus the straw topping combined with debris net covering gives an extra few days between waterings before I get round to fitting the soaker hose. 😊👍🏻
Once again, another great video Nigel. I'm a bit the same at the moment with our winter brassica crops and spring flower seedlings everywhere and nowhere else to put them. The weather is starting to cool down now and we're in for a week of rain so it's indoor activities at the moment. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
Hi Nigel. The dreaded frost. Hopefully your potatoes have picked up. My Kelsae have been out some weeks now. I lost a couple, and then D T Brown sold out, so I had to top up with Exhibition ones. Great update. Elaine.
Great video Nigel, I'm looking at your greenhouse and thinking I'm not the only one with full greenhouse, I've set one greenhouse up with the tomatoes and still have two more to get ready, I think sometime next week i will be dumping out the brassicas into there final beds, I love the wolf tiller I bough one and was given another....😂😂Hope your well Regards Mark
I put 250m of flowers in beds this week. Lots more to do, but its all getting going now. Lots if tomatoes, potatoes, strawberries, lettuce,etc going well. Soon be looking amazing 😊
i've had cabbage and caulis out since mid march. they've come on in leaps and bounds. obviously you need the right varieties. to help the plants along there was no heating in the polytunnel. just a plastic bottle over them for the first couple of weeks from planting out..................brian
Hi Brian, brassicas are tough plants. I did plant them out a too early a few years ago. They leaves went purple, it knocked them back and they took a few weeks to recover. They would have gone out by now but the beds wasn’t ready due more important things to attend to 👍🏻
Isn't putting compost/manure back into the bag really tedious 😂 My back hurt just watching you doing that! Your lettuces look great in the runner bean bed, I'm in the same boat, too many lettuce and not enough space to put them. Your bed looked great, not a weed in sight when you took the cover off. Take care 😊
Nice and steady and don’t over fill. I’ve done a few more bags since filming. Hopefully rot down nicely for top dressing… is that with a “lovely job” ? 🤣👍🏻
Everything’s looking good Nigel, your brassica growing always amazes me 🎉 not including the root trainers, what module trays do you use? I’m considering investing in some container wise but looking for any ‘cheaper’ decent alternative for now.
Hi Vanessa, I have some container wise including some Huw Richards (HR10 & HR20). Also for 24 cells I use Garland PREMIUM cell trays. As tough as CW trays but bottom hole is smaller. (About 1/3 of cost also)
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