[Lichfield Lass]

Sown some seeds with my 13 year old neice.  Cucumbers, Peppers, Melons & Catmint.  We've left them to germinate on her kitchen windowsill.  The melon aftercare looks tricky, any advice from experienced melon growers would be appreciated.

[digalotty]

hi i don't know if you seen a wartime kitchen garden yesterday but it had a section on growing Mellon, it said it is very important to get good drainage

[mumofstig]

Digalotty, I think you were watching Victorian Kitchen Garden not wartime....well at least I was

[harry]

watered my peas checked on my onion' garlic and asparagus. Did a bit of weeding, i think my broad beans can go in at weekend, they look quite healthy in little pots.

[flitwickone]

put all the stakes in to net the strawbs tied back the raspberrys hoed the shallots and onions and garlick  turned over the soil where im planting the runner beans made 12 cups of coffee for myself and other allotmenteers i give coffee and in return i get invaluable advice .   waterered compost bins not to mention rhubarb that got fed and watered strimmed the paths and prepared the brassica bed . Dear lord let it rain soon
now im home and having a beer 
im going to make the wife spag bol for dinner  :unsure:than im going to plant all the salads in large containers and then im going to seed some more herbs   and then im off out for another pint as im up for election at my local club 

am i busy? hell yes but i just love this growing lark or the trying anyway 

[kingdhesiii]

hi i don't know if you seen a wartime kitchen garden yesterday but it had a section on growing Mellon, it said it is very important to get good drainage

What and when is this on?

[mumofstig]

It's Victorian Kitchen Garden and it's on at 6pm on Sky's Yesterday channel

[whistler]

I planted out the Ruby Chard, that made one row,  put in another row of Maestro carrots, sorted the netting out.  Did loads of weeding around the strawbs. and drank lots of coffee in the sunshine!

Came home and planted 6 courgettes and 6 butternuts into pots in my plastic greenhouse for me and a neighbour.  Handsome day!

[Wombat18]

A cold and windy day today, and the soil is drying out fast, so mainly watering things especially my asparagus bed and first peas.  All the asparagus all died last year, so I have replanted this year on much improved soil, and the first few stalks are coming through.  Also, first PSB sprouts showing, yay!

[whistler]

It's been beautiful here in S.Devon, but dry for at least 9 days now, the ground is beginning to crack, using lots of precious water from the butt.

[digalotty]

It's Victorian Kitchen Garden and it's on at 6pm on Sky's Yesterday channel

yes your right mos, i just popped it off the top of my head and as usual got it almost right

[kingdhesiii]

Havnet watered at all tbh. Under the surface theres more than enough moisture for the plants.

[harry]

Did a bit of weeding, and tidying up, watered my peas. I hope to put my broad beans in weekend

[Siouxfly]

I planted some beetroot, red onions, spinach and carrots built some cane wigwams and put my beans and peas out and my son destroyed a rotting hut. Oddly the remains of said hut appear to have given birth and I'm left with masses of rotting wood, carpet and rusty nails. I swear the bundle is bigger than the hut was!

[Tattyanne456]

No watering done!! But I did harvest my very first spears of asparagus!! Its sat in a large glass of water just waiting for the other spears. Mind you I might just eat them tomorrow with a poached egg, yum yum.