Last week saw some warmer weather arrive by both day and night and the result is plants have started to grow much quicker. Suddenly it's a question of finding space for all the seedlings as they need potting on from seedling stage into larger pots.
Our home greenhouse is filling up rapidly. There's seedlings growing on for a few days before being moved to the cold frame to harden off and become accustomed to the outside world and trays of seeds still to germinate.
These are mostly trays of runner beans and climbing French beans which have only just been sown. Hopefully, they'll germinate quickly as this space will soon be required for a summer crop of tomatoes. Over the last week with the warmer weather the greenhouse has been transformed as plants suddenly decide it's time to grow. Instead of plants needing watering every couple of days due to cold, cloudy days and nights, they now have to be watered twice a day especially if the sun makes an appearance. With the arrival of warmer weather we've started moving plants to the plot. This week we managed to erect our coppiced hazel supports and get our sweet peas planted out.
The space vacated in the cold frame by the sweet peas was soon taken up by some broad bean and brassica plants. The next couple of weeks will be busy moving seedlings between greenhouse and cold frame and planting them out on the plot.
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Very attractive support for the sweet peas!
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DeleteYour first picture reminds me that I've definitely overdone the Winter Squash this year, even allowing for the school garden taking a good few. My tomatoes are taking off after weeks and weeks of careful nurturing. Bet yours will catch up in no time !
ReplyDeleteWe make lots of use of winter squash the only problem is that they do take up lots of space. A packet only contains 4 seeds of Crown Prince so I always think a back up is required. I think our tomatoes will be late cropping but we always manage to use all the tomatoes they produce. They certainly hang on well, late into autumn, and even survive a few very cold nights.
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