Goodness, I’m going to have a lot of courgettes this year. At least, if all continues to go well: for seeds are a-sprouting and my greenhouse is getting full. The March seedlings are now big enough to harden off and go outside (lettuces, turnips, chervil, and a bevy of cosmos) or be potted on into their own 10cm cardboard pots (tomatoes, mostly, though I’ve also potted on the summer calabrese and Romanescu cauliflower on the grounds that they need to be hefty enough to resist slug damage before I risk them outside).
Love your picture of clematis Montana. Looking forward to mine blooming but I think we are a few weeks off yet. I love clematis Montana so much. I know you can’t eat it - lol! It was the first plant that gave me the bug. There was a sad one in a pot in my first house share in London (already stifled by how much concrete was in London!). And I repotted it, a bit broke off and I poked the shoot in the soil and it took. I produced a wall of clematis and hey presto I had a strong case of the gardening bug!
I’m only just starting my courgettes and pumpkins now as I sow them in the unheated greenhouse and spring is very cool this year. I plant by the moon so the next time we start the new moon I will sow more pumpkins, cucumbers, sweetcorn, sunflowers and the beans. I am a bit more north than you are so perhaps it’s warmer where you are. I don’t sow spring onions anymore as I grow Welsh onions instead for just the reason it’s less work and their flowers are beautiful this time of year. I will have to transplant some to the allotment and then I’ll be able to gather some when I crop the salad potatoes. I’m famous for potato salad with homemade mayo with my hens eggs and Welsh onion garnish. I’ve gone mad with see as lad potatoes this year. 3 beds on the allotment! The motivation was because they condition the soil so well for future crops - they will be happy pumpkins this year if it warms up, just means every trip to the allotment is accompanied with a great big sack of chicken waste compost!
I have a go to recipe for parsnips - although never grown them, tempted as I love parsnips. It’s parsnip leek and ginger , it’s a very old pru leith recipe.
Wow now that potato salad sounds lush! I have sown another batch of Welsh onions this year after losing the last lot to rust a few years ago - I may be further south than you but as well as warmer it's a lot damper which is a recipe for fungal disease 😪 i have just found myself a source of stable manure nearby so like you spending a lot of time lugging sacks of muck into the garden 😊
Love your picture of clematis Montana. Looking forward to mine blooming but I think we are a few weeks off yet. I love clematis Montana so much. I know you can’t eat it - lol! It was the first plant that gave me the bug. There was a sad one in a pot in my first house share in London (already stifled by how much concrete was in London!). And I repotted it, a bit broke off and I poked the shoot in the soil and it took. I produced a wall of clematis and hey presto I had a strong case of the gardening bug!
I’m only just starting my courgettes and pumpkins now as I sow them in the unheated greenhouse and spring is very cool this year. I plant by the moon so the next time we start the new moon I will sow more pumpkins, cucumbers, sweetcorn, sunflowers and the beans. I am a bit more north than you are so perhaps it’s warmer where you are. I don’t sow spring onions anymore as I grow Welsh onions instead for just the reason it’s less work and their flowers are beautiful this time of year. I will have to transplant some to the allotment and then I’ll be able to gather some when I crop the salad potatoes. I’m famous for potato salad with homemade mayo with my hens eggs and Welsh onion garnish. I’ve gone mad with see as lad potatoes this year. 3 beds on the allotment! The motivation was because they condition the soil so well for future crops - they will be happy pumpkins this year if it warms up, just means every trip to the allotment is accompanied with a great big sack of chicken waste compost!
I have a go to recipe for parsnips - although never grown them, tempted as I love parsnips. It’s parsnip leek and ginger , it’s a very old pru leith recipe.
Wow now that potato salad sounds lush! I have sown another batch of Welsh onions this year after losing the last lot to rust a few years ago - I may be further south than you but as well as warmer it's a lot damper which is a recipe for fungal disease 😪 i have just found myself a source of stable manure nearby so like you spending a lot of time lugging sacks of muck into the garden 😊