What's In My Patch?

  • Tomatoes: * Sweet Million grown from seed, doing well but still in the propagator; going into pots this week and then into gro-bags in a few weeks. * Gartenperle grown from a free pack of seeds with a magazine; as above. * Tomazing [A]free-ish plant from a mag; in pot on windowsill awaiting gro-bag.

* French Beans: _dwarf_ grown from seed, in pots on the windowsill now, going into containers outside in a couple of weeks. 
* Sweetcorn: _minipop_ just planted these in the propogator yesterday.
* Courgette: _Black Forest_ as [A] above. 
* Carrots: _Ideal_ these are baby carrots, the seeds are ready to be planted outside and say they can go in grobags but I can't work out quite how to sow them? Hmmm.
* Aubergine: _Moneymaker_ as [A] above. 
* Basil: _Sweet Green_ seedlings had the lid removed from the propagator too early; am wondering if they will recover; need to get some more herb seeds to sow.
* Chilli: _Anaheim_ I thought these seeds weren't going to germinate but one has just appeared. Hurray!
* Squashes: 
    * _Maiden Poll_ these are little green squashes but don't seem to be germinating which is a bummer as I love squashes.
    * _Ghostrider_ these are proper Halloween type pumpkins I think; as [A]!
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        * Calabrese: _Sakura_ aka broccoli. germinated fabulously, had loads of seedlings and have planted a few into pots ready to go into bigger pots outside this month. and some seedlings got shoved straight into a pot outside to see if they could fend for themselves as i had loads.
        * Pepper: _Summer Salad_ another one as [A].
        * Radish: _Jolly_; seeds planted in a pot outside last week; more seeds to plany every couple of weeks.
        * Onions:
            * _Red Beard_ these are red spring onions and the seeds were planted in a pot outside last week. more to plant every couple of weeks.
            * _Turbo_ these were some left over onion sets that Brian gave me; I put a few in pots outside yesterday.
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                * Leaves: all had seeds planted in a pot outside last week, and I have more seeds to sow every couple of weeks.
                    * _Spinach Tetona_ 
                    * _Lettuce Mix_ 
                    * _Italian Leaf Mix_ 
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                  That's more than I thought I had when I started writing it up! 
                  
                  Everything is in pots or gro-bags this year; if things grow well in the spot I've bagged then I'll see about building some proper raised beds next year!
                  
                  The ones noted with [A] are were five plants I bought from a "free" plant offer with a magazine; I think they were £3.50 for postage and packing and it seemed like a reasonable deal to get some variety without having to buy six packs of plants I don't have the space for or raising more seedlings.
                  
                  I also want to get some strawberry plants for my pots; and ought to get various other herbs going too.