Friday, 17 April 2020

My garden&allotment.


Blueberries.


Blueberries


Blueberries


Lonicera caerulea/Honeyberry/blue honeysuckle/haskap/Жимолость (Lonicera)


Solanum tuberosum/Potato


Raspberry


Salvia officinalis/sage


Tree peonies


Tree peonies


Pelargonium - summer bedding plants often called "geranium".


Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek or bear's garlic.


Euphorbia mellifera


Native British Bluebell 


Aucuba japonica


Quince treeя begins to bloom


A Room with a View

Monday, 6 April 2020

Today planted

Snowball is a medium sized onion and stores well.
A Reliable variety with flattened bulbs and a mild flavour.
Slow to bolt, each bulb can weigh more than one pound.
White papery skin and a slightly sharp, clean, flavour.
Amaryllidaceae Allium cepa.

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Sow seed under cloches outside.

Cucumbers.
(Except: - The best time to do this is in the second week of April 2017.)
...added plenty of well-rotted manure.
The cucumber seedling shown above is exactly two weeks after sowing.
- ridge cucumber - from Lidl.
Vert Petit de Paris.
Sowing period April - May. Harvest July - August. Germination 6 - 15 days.
- Cucumber Restina seeds, F1 hybrid ( Cucumis sativus).
Harvest July - August. Germination 6 - 15 days.
Most robust and earliest outdoor cucumber.
- Gherkins Hokus
For outdoors crops.
Has good resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus.
Green gherkin to 10cm, hardy plant with long fruiting period, mosaic resistant.
Sow March to June.
Harvest July to October.
Best grown in fertile soil or growing bags.