The Plants are growing.

Well since my last post the vegetables we have planted have mostly started to grow well, the potatoes and onions are doing particularly nice.

But along with the successes we have failures, the peas and runner beans have failed to show with the exception of a few pea plants, we have therefore purchased some plants to put in that should not fall foul of the pesky pigeons.
My parents had some spare runner bean plants so they will be going in this week to replace the failed runners, both the failures are we think due to wildlife rather than any type of problem with the soil.
the greenhouse is doing fine and I now have more tomato plants to bring on ready for planting out.
The green pepper plant is doing well but the Yellow pepper plant is the same size as when we planted it really so i don't know what this is going to do.

I also now have a cucumber plant.
Elena's little patch is doing very well with the seeds we planted all coming on nicely.
The sticks are there for the sweet peas that have come up so far.

We have been hard at work getting the old Kennels into shape as a chicken coop.

With working pop hole.

Ladder, perch for roosting.

And nesting boxes.
We have yet to get the fencing sorted, we plan to use electric fencing as it means we can move the run easily/
We intend to use the area next to the coop under the tree's for the hens to scratch around and shade them from the sun.

We intend to get the hens the middle of next month.
Our window boxes and hanging baskets are doing well with the petunia's starting to flower.

We should be in for some strawberries soon too.
We will keep updating as the garden continues to grow.
Thanks for looking.
Leigh Ali and Elena (4yrs)

The garden starts to take shape.

Hello all, sorry this update has taken so long, we have been very busy getting the house decorated and the garden tamed.
The weather has prevented us doing alot in the garden up until the last couple of weeks.
In those last two weeks we have been hard at it in the garden, we tried to dig over the rear veg patch but due to the length of time the area has been set-aside (is the best description) and  leigh snapping a fork off trying to dig it over we had to take more drastic action, (see video).

This may seem like being a bit lazy but trust me this really was the only realistic way we could have this plot producing this season.

the power harrowing was done on a thursday (after i removed the sky dish, lean to and half the fence to allow access for the tractor) we planted the plot out on the friday/saturday with 70 onion sets, swede seed, savoy cabbage seed, pumpkin seeds, loads of sunflower seeds, peas, sweet peas, runner beans, three different seed potato varieties, (all main crop) pak choi, carrots, raspberry canes (rescued on freecycle), courgettes and iceburg lettuce seeds.

we also have a small garden for our daughter at the front of the house with the black currant plants and a rhubarb which where transplanted from the back garden before the harrowing was done, they are about 25years old! still going strong which is suprising as they where under a large trampoline for much of that time, amazing. 

We also saved the old green house that was in the bushes and patched it up with some polysheeting we were given, we have two pepper plants and three tomatoes plants in there and more tomato seeds in trays which we will put out when ready.

we also plan to grow some cucumbers in there too but its too early for the plants to be in the garden centre's yet.

i will get some pictures posted soon, we have had to change computers and the pictures are on the old one, so will take some more tomorrow and post them.

We will finish updating later this week (with luck).

Can't belive we planted the seeds two weeks ago and they are nearly all showing already.

thanks for your support your coments are most welcome.

Here are the pictures of the planted plot as promised:

 

please let us know how you are getting on with your plot.

Leigh Alison & Elena (4yrs)