My brassicas that I saved and transplanted after cabbage root fly attack are massive...but problem is I have no idea what they are
so they will stay in their troughs until the middle of next month and if they haven't 'hearted up' or produced a flower head they will get eaten as 'greens'...waste not want not!!!
My greenhouse toms have 3 trusses of flowers and are just starting to set fruit, my outdoor ones on average have 2 trusses except for the 'tumbling' ones that put out one truss and then so far no more!
In small lean-to greenhouse nothing much is going on - peppers, chillis and cucumbers are growing foliage-wise but no sign of flowers. Then the other chillis and peppers some in the tomato greenhouse temporarily, others outside, are at various different stages - some are flowering, others aren't - def no fruit setting yet.
Aubergines are growing large fat leaves but no signs of flowers in the greenhouse or outside.
Outdoor cucumbers are now starting to take off - all are flowering and have tiny fruits but still far off being big enough to eat!
Set onions beginning to swell quite dramatically (first year growing these) and look like proper onions! Onions from seed and leeks are pathetic, neither are pencil sized yet!!!
Runner beans are climbing fast - can see flower buds but not flowering. Climbing french beans are pathetic - sowed direct a few more yesterday.
Bush french beans are at various stages - some have flowers, some got slugged and are catching up, others were sown direct and literally only have 2 seed leaves!
Pumpkins are growing slowly - no flowers but taking heart in the fact they are still further on than this time last year!
Sweetcorn growing well.
Picked mangetout for the last two days, still plenty of flowers. Pea pods starting to swell, again loads more flowers.
2nd early potatoes flowering, maincrop have flower buds.
Beetroot have been attacked by leaf minor and are looking v sorry for themselves, managed to have a small one with a salad last week, non of the others are big enough.
Carrots are pathetic - some look like they've only just germinated when they've been in for a couple of months!
Parsnips look amazing from their foliage but what they actually look like under the soil...who knows!
Just resowed a load of turnips and swedes - after the cabbage root fly incident I ripped them all out in a bit of a paddy. Looked at the seed packets yest whilst doing a tidy up and discovered I could resow, so thought 'what the heck?'
Sweet potatoes have been planted out - one in a bin on my patio which already looks really healthy, the other plants were put out yesterday in a raised bed under cloches.
Salad leaves are doing well and have been eating them for a while - cut and come again, little gem lettuces, pea shoots, spinach and rocket - though the latter two have just started to bolt so have resown.
Have eaten about 5 gooseberries and a tiny handful of blackcurrants and one strawberry! Loads more strawbs to come, only a few blackcurrants though and no more gooseberries as they were attacked both by aphids and my dog! My blackberries are currently a kind of deep pink colour.
Wow when I read all that back I wonder how I manage to have fitted all that in to my garden!
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February 27, 2013, 15:39