Roots, Shoots, Fruits and Leaves!

[veggiechicken]

You can do anything in any week but in Roots week I "must" tend to my Roots.
Just as I'm lax about successional sowing, I am also lax at thinning out, transplanting even harvesting regularly.
The idea is to give them whatever they need during the week - concentrating my mind on just one group instead of flitting around and achieving nothing

[Penellype]

Oops - I just sowed lettuce and caliente mustard

I have just eaten half of a nice fat kohlrabi and some carrots though

[veggiechicken]

Round 2 - Shoots

This week I will be sowing some more bunching onions, pricking out those sown 4 weeks ago, splitting and planting out some garlic chives that are in pots.
Weeding the perennial leek bed and keeping any eye on my bulbils (as you do!).
Also sowing some oriental veg with funny names.
Only one Rhubarb seedling showing from those sown 4 weeks ago but I live in hope!

Flowers to be sown on Friday

[veggiechicken]

Round 2 - Fruits

Time for a repeat sowing of the peas & beans sown 4 weeks ago. All up except the Twinkle peas which I expected to be fast. I've had a furtle and the peas have little shoots (still counts as fruits ) so I haven't given up on them.
Friday will be bulb planting day this week!

[veggiechicken]

Round 2 - Leaves

I haven't forgotten this - just been a bit busy
This week, I've pricked out the kale and cabbage sown in Round 1.
Also sown some mixed salad leaves and - as an experiment - Candissa F1 cabbage. packet says it can be sown mid-October in a cold GH for planting out in March. I know its mid-November but I just have to try it! Normal sowing dates are Feb- May.

This is the GH filling up with Rounds 1 & 2 seedlings



Round 3 starts tomorrow.

[veggiechicken]

Round 3 - Roots

Just a sprinkling of radish this week. Its a bit cold to hope for much now.

[veggiechicken]

Round 3 - Shoots

Last week - pricked out some bunching onions. That's all

[veggiechicken]

Round 3 - Fruits

Today, sowed 4, foot-long lengths of guttering with Douce Provence peas for planting out in 4 weeks time (I hope).
I'm going to sow some more broad beans and plant out the Wizard Field beans sown in Round 1.
Bijou mangetout are scampering up their canes in the GH and some CFBs are also doing their best. Whether they'll survive these frosty nights I dunno!

[veggiechicken]

Chapter 2 - 2017/18

Remember this crazy idea?
Believe it or not, I have been vaguely following it all year. Its time to get serious again. Some of the seeds I sowed last year were a success - others less so. Building on it, I have a revised plan to see me through the winter.
The basics are the same http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1484804

Operate a 4 week cycle for sowing seeds, based loosely around the main parts that are eaten.

Week 1 = Roots (eg carrots, turnip, radish, potatoes etc)
Week 2 = Shoots + stalks/stems (eg onions leeks, all alliums, celery, rhubarb) and anything with a funny name - like the oriental veg.
Week 3 = Fruits (eg tomatoes, squashes, beans & peas)
Week 4 = Leaves (brassicas, incl caulis and broccoli, lettuce, salad leaves)

Then repeat, every 4 weeks for 13 cycles a year.

Pretty Flowers are sown on Friday, any week
Fish are roots

There's a small twist - I'm going to sow the same things each month.
Wk1 = Roots (carrots and radish)
Wk 2 = Shoots (spring onions and leeks)
Wk 3 = Fruits (peas and broad/field beans)
Wk 4 = Leaves (kale and mixed salad leaves)

Flowers will still be on Friday and "Fish" are roots

According to my Diary, tomorrow (Monday) is a Leaves week so I'll be sowing a pinch of kale and one of salad leaves.

Its good to have a plan (even when nobody else understands a word of it)

[vixylix]

I like it - keep it up!

[veggiechicken]

Its Shoots week - that's sowing spring onions and leeks Yes, I know its not the right time to sow leeks but I have lots of seeds
Going to sow some Oriental veg too as this week is also for things with funny names

There are a few added twists to the plan that I'm worried about explaining as it confuses rary even more than normal (and you don't often see the word "normal" and "rary" in the same sentence
I'll try:-
Monday - sow seeds
Tuesday is Chooks day when they're cleaned out etc
Wednesday is Weednesday
Thursday is Thinning and transplanting of seedlings
Friday is Flowers and Feeding
Saturday is Catch up day
Sunday is for sorting seeds out for the following week.

Simple!!

[Small pumpkin]

Think I've just changed my name to rary!!!



What!!???!!

[veggiechicken]

That's the simple bit. On top of that, there's the day of the month layer - so the 18th is bed 18 to weed and the 18th letter of the alphabet which is R so I do stuff with things beginning with R - like rhubarb, raspberries and roses.
Do try to keep up, SP

[Penellype]

"Fish are roots"

Um...



Errr...

Fish?

[Chestnut]

I'm lost already….
I wish I was that organised!

In my garden, I only ever seem to manage to do about a third of the things I want to do… It's early days yet (garden 21 months old, allotment nearly 13months) so I'm hoping that I'm going to improve with practice