The first seeds sown and a kitchen garden plan




Sunday saw one main vegetable bed dug over.  It has bindweed so the no dig method doesn’t really work for it and I don’t want manure on it as it will be a mixed bed and I don’t really want forked carrots.  It will get some compost and some blood, fish and bone on it to give things a bit of a boost.


Beyond that and a few more brambles into the garden waste bins for collection this week I started some seed sowing in the greenhouse.


Jalopenos and Habanero chillis are in the propagator, two pots of carrots (one orange, one mixed) are currently on the floor but will move higher, when I get things sorted, to protect them from carrot root fly.  I’ll sow a later crop into the ground also but that will be done after May in the hope that the carrot root fly have given up by then.  


Tomatoes - Moneymaker, Red Giant and Roma -together with some parsley, globe artichokes, kholrabi and lettuce - Iceberg, Butterhead and Little Gem are also underway and more will follow next weekend when I get control of the cardboard stocks currently taking up space in the greenhouse.


Below is this year’s plan as to what is going where which is pretty much everything vegetable wise is going somewhere it wasn’t last year which is as good I can get on rotation with the room I have.





1. Apple tree in pot - Braeburn

2. Pear tree in pot - Conference

3. Fig - Brown Turkey

4. Herbs in pots - bay, various mints, oregano, majorum, sage, rosemary, thyme, lemon verbena, tarragon, parsley, chervil, coriander, dill and mixed salad leaves

5. Potatoes in pots - Charlotte and Kestrel

6. Damson tree

7. Gooseberry - Red Haikkonen 

8. Apple tree - Coxs Orange Pippin

9. Gooseberry  - Red Haikkonen

10. Pear tree - Williams

11. Apple tree - Bramley

12. Gooseberry - Invicta

13. Pear tree - Comice

14. Gooseberry - Invicta

15. Blackcurrant

16. Rhubarb

17. Globe Artichokes

18. Horseradish 

19. Jerusalem Arrichokes

20. Blackberries (can’t get rid of them, might as well eat them)

21. Blackcurrant

22. Blackcurrant

23. Whitecurrant - White Versailles

24. Redcurrant

25. Tomatoes 

26. Broad Beans, peas, lettuce then mixed bed - fennel, carrots, turnips, leeks etc

27. Plum tree in pot - Victoria

28. Strawberries - Cambridge and Florence (mainly)

29. Squash

30. Sorrel (broad leaf) and herbs in pots

31. Sorrel (red veined) and herbs in pots

32. Tomatoes, Chillis, Basil and possibly peppers in the Greenhouse

33. Mixed bed - khlorabi, beetroot, chard, carrots, leeks, celeriac etc

34. Sweetcorn, Borlotti beans, Tromba courgettes

35. Runner and climbing French Beans and courgettes

36. Blueberry in pot

37. Blueberry in pot

38. Raspberries - Autumn Bliss


There will be other random pots around with various lettuce, radishes, spring onions and herbs by the time we have finished also.  Overall, however, I have the makings of a plan which is something to work towards.

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