It’s all kicking off in my garden
Spring has most definitely sprung in my garden. I had today off work and was out there planting some veg seeds (already off plan, somehow) and re-potting a bay tree. In the process of all this I spotted many signs of new, edible life. Including:
- The first of hopefully many strawberry flowers (above)
- Some tiny baby figs
- Some promising-looking raspberry leaves
- The first signs of my broad beans and peas (planted back on 12th March):
- Some buds forming on my gooseberry bush (although I daren’t get my hopes up about this one, having had only one gooseberry from it last year)
- Apple tree leaves and buds also starting to appear
- The first beetroot seedling pushing through
- And my rhubarb crowns starting to produce something you could just about stick in a crumble
I won’t, however, show you the less successful propagation experiment in my shed. Suffice to say things aren’t looking too sunny for my tomatoes and peppers right now.
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I’ve never grown tomatoes from seed before, so will be looking your way for tips!
If you can get Arthur to be nearly as interested in the french beans when they’re grown as he was in the seeds/soil you’ll be onto a winner.
We should visit each other’s garden sometime and eat some of these home-grown thingummies.
This is impressive.
I’ve got something similar going on over in Bethnal Green.
Only I’m in a ‘lower ground’ aka basement flat working with 4 window boxes.
My spade is a kitchen spatula.
Purple sprouting broccoli has been working well since I tied it with a shoelace to a pencil staked in the ground.
Could never figure out why the fennel was all droopy till I spotted next door’s cat rolling in it.
Smallholding East London style.
Now PSB in a window box with a pencil shows *true* dedication…
I think some sort of prize marrow competition is brewing here, rather worringly.
Let’s definitely share some of of our treats – maybe we can have some sort of harvest-festival-meets-tweetup sesh. Our neighbour’s cherry tree is magnificent in July, and I’ve got high hopes for our apples, gooseberries and raspberries.
Loving this gardening digression. But how do you keep the slugs away from those seedlings? I can’t see any blue pellets.
Digression? This is the main event!
Blue pellets + 18 month old son (+ curious hens) = probably a bad idea. Got away with it last year without any slug attacks, so fingers crossed.
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A very nice looking veg patch you have there. Mine turned out to be a bit of a disaster. It was quite a cold season this year and I lost almost half of my strawberries and all of my cucumbers. My tomatoes however have thrived!
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Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
Most impressive – not least the very methodical pictures. And for some reason, the sun always seems to shine in your corner of south London?
You’ll doubtless be pleased to hear that I now have tomatoes and climbing French beans sown in trays (the latter wrestled in the nick of time from the grasp of a newly-crawling baby), and curly parsley and lettuce planted out. Oh, and an apple tree slightly pruned, and roses very much pruned.
Here’s to a bountiful harvest come the summer!