first of the veg has been planted....

[meriad]

A garden centre not too far away had some vegetable plants at quite a good price - 6 small plants for £1.99. Unfortunately it was a case of 6 tomato plants / 6 peppers / 6 chilli's - they didn't have a mix of say 2 each; but still - I thought it was a good price.

So today I planted all 6 tomato plants where they need to be, 2 cucumbers, 3 chilli's and 4 peppers. The other two peppers and two of the chilli's I'm giving to my SIL and the final chilli plant was given to a friend last weekend as a thank you for hosting a lunch. I have one marrow plant that still needs to be planted out, but I want it to go outside so think I'll wait another week or so before doing that - and then finally runner beans - again I'll wait a few weeks before I put them out.

Tomorrow I'm heading to another garden centre to get some salad / herbs / radishes and beet root seeds.

I'm a happy bunny

[TheOstrich]

I bought 4 x sweet pepper plants last Monday from our garden centre, and they're in the "greenhouse" at the end of the garden by the shed ..... last year was a disaster, so I didn't buy tomato plant this year.

My plants were £1.99 each, though!

[Weka]

I found my celery today. I had planted it, but forgot where I had planted it (mental note to write it down next year lol) and then the weeds took over. Well I had made my way around to that side of the garden today, and saw a couple of potentials that could have been the celery, then saw a line of them. bingo. found.

still got to find where the carrots are.

Peppers, are they the ones that are big and hollow and come in green, yellow, orange and red? I call those capsicum. Are they easy to grow? i've only tried once with absolutely no luck. might have been something to do with lack of water.

[Kaz]

Excellent! We're going to make use of my MIL's kind offer to use her empty greenhouse this year - it's huge and totally unused since Mick's dad died.......

Tomatoes and peppers (aka Capsicum ) I think for starters............not sure about the dreaded courgettes but I might succumb. Bet we get a glut again though if I do

[tonicha]

We've got 7 tomato plants, already with flowrers

And Grumpy has planted some tomato and pepper seeds, they're growing nicely and also chillies from a year ago. He cut the plants right down and now they're growing really well.

All outside, but the seedlings are on the window ledge, so protected from the sun and slugs

Capsicums need lots of water Weka and not a lot of sun - well, not our sun anyway

[Weka]

Thanks Kaz and ton.... Ahhh... Definitely a water problem then. When I do my garden beds properly I going to put some soaker hoses in.

Harvested heaps of silverbeet today ( which I think we discovered was chad or was it chard) Made more pesto with it. I've even go some tomatoes trying to flower, mad things, is almost winter, but they have grown themselves. There's a whole pile of something else too. It's got a huge round leaf with spikes looking hairs on it. I'm not sure if they are cucumber, pumpkin or zucchini. There's about 6 of them and they are just starting to flower now, I can't wait to find out, but again, it's probably too late in the year now. Winter is next month.

[debih]

I put some bits and pieces in a couple of weeks ago - lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, beetroot, carrots (seeds) and onions. We were all set to go tomorrow night to put some broad beans and courgettes in but it is dropping really cold at night so I'm not too sure.

I really ought to try to raise the polytunnel but the damned awful weather is putting me off so it may just stay flat on the floor this year - at least it won't get wind damaged!