So many plants, so little dirt...
I've been busy in the garden over the last few days, and spent quite a few evenings with books, gardening magazines and packets and packets of seeds. I have a little gardening notebook now (which my mum gave to me for Chinese New Year, so sweet!) - it's just a normal lined book, but it's full of the ramblings of a crazy lady who is obsessed with vegetables (how did she get my book?! I didn't write it, honest...).
Yesterday, I planted the following:
White Lisbon spring onion
Golden Acre cabbage *
Dwarf bush bean *
All Green Bush courgette *
Marketmore cucumber *
Red Beard spring onion
Cayenne chilli
Garden Pearl tomato *
Black Beauty aubergine *
I also repotted some bought seedlings and plug plants:
Mixed peppers
Tumbling Tom tomatoes *
Sweet Million tomato *
The asterisks are for plants which are going outside in the garden - basically anything that can't sit on windowsills or in my mini green house.
I also went mad at PlantsofDistinction.co.uk, which is full of fantastic varieties of fruit and veg, loads of stuff for containers. I ordered:
Bushy cucumber
Green Fingers cucumber
Summer Ball courgette
Fairy Tale aubgerine
Ophelia mini aubergine
Red perilla
Wee B. Little pumpkin
Pattison verte et blanc squash
Thai Basil
Garlic chives
Confetti coriander
Sage
Old English Thyme
Most of the herbs are to supplement or replace existing plantings I have - coriander and sage especially. All of the thyme plants I have are actually creeping varieties, which aren't all that helpful in the kitchen. When it comes to the courgettes, cucumbers, aubergines and squash, I couldn't resist. Except for the cucumbers, they're all veggies M doesn't like but I love, so it's good to grow those.
Finally, a plant order for plug plants and the like from Dobies:
Patio potato starter kit
Hundreds and Thousands tomatoes
Maskotka tomatoes
Red Tongue lettuce
Tarpan Pink Flowering strawberries
I have no doubts most of these won't grow properly in my garden and I won't get around to sowing most of them, but its fun to dream!
Yesterday, I planted the following:
White Lisbon spring onion
Golden Acre cabbage *
Dwarf bush bean *
All Green Bush courgette *
Marketmore cucumber *
Red Beard spring onion
Cayenne chilli
Garden Pearl tomato *
Black Beauty aubergine *
I also repotted some bought seedlings and plug plants:
Mixed peppers
Tumbling Tom tomatoes *
Sweet Million tomato *
The asterisks are for plants which are going outside in the garden - basically anything that can't sit on windowsills or in my mini green house.
I also went mad at PlantsofDistinction.co.uk, which is full of fantastic varieties of fruit and veg, loads of stuff for containers. I ordered:
Bushy cucumber
Green Fingers cucumber
Summer Ball courgette
Fairy Tale aubgerine
Ophelia mini aubergine
Red perilla
Wee B. Little pumpkin
Pattison verte et blanc squash
Thai Basil
Garlic chives
Confetti coriander
Sage
Old English Thyme
Most of the herbs are to supplement or replace existing plantings I have - coriander and sage especially. All of the thyme plants I have are actually creeping varieties, which aren't all that helpful in the kitchen. When it comes to the courgettes, cucumbers, aubergines and squash, I couldn't resist. Except for the cucumbers, they're all veggies M doesn't like but I love, so it's good to grow those.
Finally, a plant order for plug plants and the like from Dobies:
Patio potato starter kit
Hundreds and Thousands tomatoes
Maskotka tomatoes
Red Tongue lettuce
Tarpan Pink Flowering strawberries
I have no doubts most of these won't grow properly in my garden and I won't get around to sowing most of them, but its fun to dream!