2020 Calendar

[burnie]

Following on from last years thread
https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...dar_98347.html
post your pictures of your growing season

[Penellype]

January photos

Taken in bright sunshine at around 10.15am yesterday, these show just how low the sun is. Some of the photos are therefore rather dark.



Nothing much happening here. I've cut down the white daisies from under the wiegela bush.



I still haven't removed the tomato stakes as the lawn has been too wet to stand on. I also want to cut off the branch of the white currant nearest the apple tree as they are getting too close together. The fence, which was painted last year with paint that "lasts 5 years" needs painting again .



Not much change here - the carrots under the net are gradually being eaten. This year the 4 buckets nearest the camera were on self watering trays during the summer and the carrots are much bigger than last year.



Just storage, strawberries and blueberries here. The 2 buckets of compost under the strawberry shelf have been sieved ready for carrots. Sorry about the fuzzy picture - I must have moved as I took it.



Looking rather empty here although there are carrots under the net and the battered looking calabrese plant is still producing some small shoots.

[veggiechicken]

January - an overview of the middle of the garden - the 28 Bed area.

Down the left side (North) and Down the Right side (South) towards the East



Up the North side towards the West



Up the Middle towards the West



Up the South side towards the West

[Jungle Jane]

January
This is my garden today,it will look better soon I haven’t really done anything out there it’s all sleeping except there’s carrots that we’ve been eating in the first photo. In the second photo there’s garlic in the raised bed & peas in the bed covered with metal shelving. The third photo is where I planted onion sets that might not grow. My peach trees under bubble wrap but it will get leaf curl,I did a bad job covering it this time,I didn’t cover the top just the sides.

[Penellype]

February



Nothing much happening here.



The white on the lawn is dust from the men cutting paving slabs yesterday. My poor lawn... . The fence still looks a bit streaky after its 2nd coat of paint (the correct colour this time) - its a lot better than it was. The branch of the white currant that was nearest the apple tree has now been cut off. The buds on the apricot tree (right) are starting to break.



Not much has changed here, except that the buckets of carrots are gradually disappearing.



Buckets of compost gradually accumulating.



Last summer's calabrese is still producing edible shoots.

[veggiechicken]

February 5th - Overview of the middle of the garden - the 28 bed bit.

North side, looking to the East


South side, looking to the East



North side, looking west



In the middle, looking west



South side, looking West

[Vegi potager]

Jan 2020

Ok some of you may have already seen this view from the 1st floor window, facing SSE...

On the right side fence: overwintering herbs in GH with some winter lettuce. Cold frame hidden by GH with some bags of compost staying warm. Also hidden from view on the right is my asparagus bed and then a 1 x 2 1/2m bed currently with chard and kale. then another 1 x 2m bed with onions in half and a pyramid cover ready for the early sowing planned for the next few weeks (leafy veg.) behind that under a pear tree I have a 1sqm bed with some polka raspberry canes that went in this Nov.

On the left: some 1/2m beds against the fence, onions in the first, behind in the next is perennial veg (2 green globe artichokes and I have some Daubentons kale on order to go in and planning to put in a low growing rosemary) The last 1 1/2m bed is empty and covered over ready for peas. Currently my containers of garlic are sitting on top.

Down the middle isa temporary 1sqm covered with some winter radish and overwintering Broad beans then 3 beds 1x2m (chard and containers of garlic)1x2m (strawberries) and then 1x3m (onions, and container grown PSB & collard greens.) There is some rhubarb behind a small area of patio and the the apple tree in my "wild garden" that I am purposely leaving for the insects and any brave animals to inhabit.

My pond has newts, and this year my first dragonflies

[Jungle Jane]

End of February Photos
It’s a bit wet out here,there’s garlic in the raised bed next to the rhubarb in the third photo,my onions are growing that’s good I thought they were planted too late. There’s a few leek seedlings out there that were from my leek flower heads,I’ll post the photos in the next post because I’ve already put five on -

[Jungle Jane]

February Continued

These are the leek seedlings & I also put the seed heads in this pot to see what happens & I've got about a million seedlings

[veggiechicken]

St Davids Day - March 1st - sunshine and hail! Starting to green up.

North side facing East




South side facing East




North side facing West



In the middle facing West



South side facing West.

[Penellype]

Having problems posting photos on this thread. When I try to upload a photo it tells me there is a database error

[veggiechicken]

Add your name to this thread, Pene https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ue_100679.html

[Jungle Jane]

March
Today in the garden,I took the covers off the onions & replaced with sticks & bits of pine tree (in the fourth photo) to keep cats off & there garlic in the raised bed in the fifth photo. There’s flowers open on the forsythia,flowering currant,daffs,hyacinths,primrose,peach tree,daphne,one geranium,nemesia,rocket & one of the clematis has a couple of little purple flowers on,it’s only about two foot tall so far,I’ve been training it onto the trellis next to the compost bin.

[Penellype]

March photos (finally worked out what I now have to do - take screenshots of all the photos regardless of size)
Photos were taken on 1st March.



Garden was basically under water. The pulmonaria (blue flowers) usually thickly covers the soil. its struggling on but I think it is probably drowning.



The apricot tree was in flower. Most of the blossom has been ripped off by the gales. A few flowers remain but I am not hopeful of getting any fruit.



Carrots are being eaten. Cauliflowers in the growhouse were looking very miserable and have since been planted at the allotment



Not much change here.



Veg garden looking rather empty.

[bario1]

March

Daffs, forsythia, purple sprouting broccoli.