The Rite of Spring (Onions)

Hello I'm David, here with another post of the very best in beans, roots and aromatic gardening.

We start tonight's post with news that peas in pots are flowering, soon to produce peas in pods in pots.Other news from the Western End:

• let it beans
  
• thymes they are a-changing
  
• with a little help from my worms
  
• house still standing, after all this time
  

Moving on downhill to the Eastern Frontier, the vegetable beds continue to produce new material. I was privileged enough to catch up with them on their latest tour of the lawn:
On a more serious note, the beans have launched an assault on the perimeter fence. There have been suggestions that it was an inside job.

That's all for now, thank you for reading. I'll be back next time with more news. It will probably mention that the various plants have grown some more, and that we've eaten them to save them from themselves.

2009 in the vegetable patch (and elsewhere...)

As promised, here is the round up of what is being grown this year:

In the original vegetable patch there are parsnips and spring onions (which are being sown successionally). In the new vegetable patch, which will have its own separate post at some point, there are 3 courgettes and lots of spinach. I have planted a few runner beans against the fence in the border, lots of peas in pots, also being sown successionally, and of course the radishes!

I am also experimenting a little by planting some leftover runner beans and a courgette in some odd bits of ground in between other plants in the garden.

First harvest

A guerilla post by David:

News just in - the radishes seem to have survived an earlier gastropod massacre to give this viciously colourful first harvest.

More peppery roots to follow before the week is out.

A quick review of last year

Seeing as 2008 received no blog coverage, I thought it would be good to quickly cover what was grown and with how much success:

In the patch there were carrots and nothing else as I never got round to planting anything in between the carrot rows! The resulting carrots were bizarrely shaped but extremely flavoursome. 

I also had grew some leeks, tomatoes and sweet peppers in pots. The leeks were small but tasty, tomatoes stayed green and so gave us several jars of green tomato chutney, and the peppers were a failure!

Some valuable lessons were learnt from the various successes and failures:

1. Don't plant the whole pack of seeds - its just too much!
2. Don't leave tasks like for later (like pinching out the tips of the tomato plants - this may have been why the tomatoes all stayed green) 

Thats all for now; 2009 update coming soon!