Fixed Raised Bed

Cauliflowers in the tidies up raised bed, under cover.

Vegetables

Radish 2 weeks after sowing, had to move them to a bigger pot as the roots were showing at the bottom of the smaller one, looking forward to eating these soon :P

The larger of my broadbeans after 2 weeks, pretty impressed this has come on as it has, there has been very little sun lately here in North Wales, yet 2 of the 3 I planted come up well, unsure where I will put these if they get much bigger before I can plant them outside :S

Planted some peas today for overwintering, hopefully will manage to get pics up when the germinate :)

Monthly To Do

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Fixed Raised Bed

managed to squeeze some time in today to clear the rubble, this is starting to look how i'd like, ready for more soil to go in and no nonsense to clear up :) Even my dog is looking on at my work with admiration lol.

 

Found this on a website which will fit inside snugly:

Runner Beans - Seed Saving

Earlier this year I planted a handful of runner bean seeds in the fixed raised bed. Unfortunately I did not tend to these at all, in fact they were left untouched until they had gone to seed early october.

I simply removed the seeds from the pods, sorted the mouldy ones from the good ones and left them on my kitchen worktop, after about a week they had dried out so the shells would more likely crack under pressure than squash in.

I have now placed these seeds in an envelope in a cupboard ready to plant next time.

Seed Saving

Seed saving is something I see just as important as planting the seeds themselves. One of the reasons I decided to grow vegetables was the cost saving and to buy seeds each year when they could be saved is taking away from the overall cost saving, as I progress with saving seeds I will be posting the method I use and the success I have with it.

Vegetables

Planted some Radish on my window sill on the 25th and they are just started to show coming through after 5 days, looking on the packet they should be sowed from march to september, but I am guessing they will grow all year round on the window sill, will keep a log of what I am planting with lengths of time to come through, replant etc and maybe post it when it is in good progress :)