[mandycharlie]

March 16th (just adding this date, so as you know when the question was starting from)

So, what have you planted in the ground and have sprouting/starting to sprout in the greenhouse.

I'd just like to know, cause I am a newbie,, and I get confused.. or is that confudled...

We have done alot to start clearing the land, we have also started, some onions, shallots, garlic, seeds; carrots, beetroot, radishes, leeks.

also in the greenhouse, cabbages, cauliflower, brocolli, lettuces,tomatoes and peas which the cabbages look rather leggy..

Or are they supposed to look like that.. (the cabbages)

So.. what have you done, what are you worried about and what would you experts with so much more years than me, suggest???

Mandy  the person who is always begging for advise..

[DD.]

OK - here we go.

Firstly as you may have noticed from other posts, I'm not a fan of getting ahead of your self. I've been there seen it done it, had the disappointment. DO NOT PLANT TOO EARLY!!! It's better to plant too late.

I have planted outside - shallots and a row of Meteor peas. That's it end of story.

Inside in the window ledges I have Geraniums & Tomatoes, growing nice & sturdily. Inside the house ready to pop up are Lobia, trailing lobelia and sweet peppers. (They are inside my inflatable Tesco re-sealable bags). The Geraniums came up in 3 days with this method.

In the greenhouse I have germinating - French Marigolds, Leeks, Sweet Peas, Little Gem & Webbs lettuce, Parsley & probably one or two others I can't remember at the mo.

Spuds are chitting well. I'll admit I've planted some in the home garden, but they are trapped between my neighbours south facing wall & my greenhouse -  a spot that never sees frost. Allotment wise - no way.

I may have forgotten somthing, but this must be about 90% & a pass mark!!

[WG.]

Not wishing to fan the flames with gasoline ... but I'd like to point out that most allotmenteers / gardeners will be in full-time employment and thus only able to plant on one or two days of the week.   This doesn't make it a good idea to plant early but does make the temptation that much stronger when your day-off is a nice day.

[Dan]

What a good thread...it will be very helpful for me

Personally i have done nothing more than put in a rhubarb plant i bought at the garden centre ( victoria?)
And im half way through moving my raspberry canes to a new spot...

Early potatoes chitting away in garage and some polythene sheets on the recently ( month or so ago) newly rotovated patch to try and warm the soil a bit....

Not planted a single seed anywhere yet and not entirely sure i can , i may just buy starter plants this year..but im sure i will end up growing some herbs and a bunch of different chillis again from seed this year

[shaun]

hi mandy you just have to sit on your hands for a couple of weeks yet.

as for your leggy cabbages have you potted them on or are they still in the trays where you sown them.if they are then they need putting into bigger pots(3"-4") when you do this transplant them up to the bottom leaves,they will go leggy again in the bigger pots so when you transplant them outside do the same transplant them up to the bottom leaves again and realy firm them in.this goes for all the brassicas

[Dan]

Good advice thanks Shaun
I was wondering just the same thing as i was given some home grown cabbage seedling plants yesterday and said to myself they look leggy? now i know what to do tomorrow.

[ytyynycefn]

In the ground I have autumn sown garlic and onions, and recently planted shallots and onion sets.  There's the perennial herbs in the herb patch, plus Jerusalem artichokes, rhubarb and asparagus as well.  That's it, unless you count recently planted fruit trees (bramley, peach, victoria plum, kiwi, pear, redcurrant, blackcurrant, gooseberry and blueberry - oh, and strawberries).

In the greenhouse I have a tray of salad leaves, peppers, aubergines, tomatoes, kohlrabi, cauliflower, broad beans, dwarf french beans, tagetes, poached egg flower, alpine strawberries and carrots in a deep trough.  I have no idea if any of these will work, as I've never had a GH before, but figured it couldn't hurt to try.  The salad, carrots, broad beans, caulis and most of the flowers have germinated - it's too soon to tell for the others - I only sowed them all last week.

Oh yes, there's spuds chitting on my bedroom windowsill!

[frazzy]

garlic ,onions ,first early pots ,carrots ,perpetual spinich, tomatos indoors .thats it till the weather warms up which should be in 2 weeks time in the solar weather prediction is accurate i wait with anticipation

[leeky]

nice, plenty of action going off with you folks.  



here I planted 4 rows of early spuds, how wise that will be remains to be seen with the report of snow soon  

on the window sills i have in propogators; cabbage, leeks, spring onions, beets, brussels and also marigolds.

I potted up the Toms today into 3 inch pots, they drooped a little but soon recovered after a watering.

on the look out for halfpipe guttering now to put my beans in, them and the peas are still in their packets.

[GrannieAnnie]

Nothing in the ground yet, but I have started just a few of tomatoes, chillies, cabbages, brussels, leeks, beetroot, peas, broad beans,  in the greenhouse, which is unheated, but I cover them with fleece at night

My potatoes will go in week after next when I get back from Kent visiting my daughter

[muntjac]

nuttin outside at all ... got some runner beans n french beans in the greenhouse .along with some tumbling toms n £= maker . to early still the key to good harvests is preparatioon and patiance  

[milkman]

Okay outside on the lottie I've got:-

garlic planted autumn,

onion sets and shallots planted over the last month,

parsnips sown directly the last w/e in feb under clear polythene

broad beans - both overwintered and sown last weekend

potatoes - maincrop and salad planted last weekend

In the unheated greenhouse:-

Rootrainer tray containing brussels sprouts, summer cabbage, calabrese and (non-existent yet) purple globe artichokes

On a sunny windowsill at home:-

baby tomato plants in a Rootrainer tray

[bridgeford]

ive got peas which i started off in drain pipe in a portable greenhouse which i now have put in the ground under fleece, tomatoes and savoy from seed on the windowsill and potatoes chitting well, i must admit i`m still sat on my hands for a bit but as for the peas i couldnt wait and had to plant somthing as a newbie but if they dont come on i`ve got three other packets. i`m realy surprised at the coming weather though after all the mild weather weve had and the time of year cant remember the last time we had snow at the end of march.

[tetley]

I know I don't really count, but I have got garlic in the ground from Nov. Onions, and carrots in the ground.  
In my little greenhouse thingy, yellow and red cherry toms, aubergine, chilli, peppers, coriander.
Belle de fontanay potatoes chitting.
Am following the advice of my neighbour, and not doing anything else with the ground, until the end of the month.

[freyaluck]

On the lottie I have Japenese onions and strawberries (from last year) Thats it.  Today I will be planting out rasberries, gooseberries and red and black currents.
This morning I have sown Tomatoes, melons, some cucumbers,peas,spinich,chartwell lettuce ,rhubarb and strawberries On windowsills around the house.  I also have garlic already on the windowsills.  Might also plant out my compfrey and borage If I can get the beds done today .