I wish! I’m sitting writing this out as it howls a gale outside and the rain lashes down. We’ve certainly had a mixed bag of weather, late March into early April was great – I even got a suntan! whereas the rest of April was a mixture of sunshine and showers. Not that bad for the garden, but the temperature has been a bit erratic too, there has been the odd occasion where the temperature in the greenhouse has reached 40 degrees! Then there are days where outdoors it struggles to reach double figures.
Anyway, April has been a very busy month in the garden. I’ll go into the plants in detail throughout the next week. All the vegetables I’m growing this year are now sown in one way or another, whether they be indoors or outdoors.
On 14th April I started off peas and carrots outside, whilst also putting out the Maris Piper potatoes. 2 weeks later parsnips, beetroot, swede and turnip were all started off outside.
Last week I sowed some more carrots – Yes that’s right, successional sowing! I think I might master it this year! And yes, a second sowing of carrots! People who have followed me from the start will know the issue I’ve had with direct sowing of carrots, in fact I’ve had nothing from the ground, just last years bucket grown carrots.
Indoors I have runner beans, sweetcorn started, although today I realised I have grown 4 sweetcorn plants fewer than I wanted… Battled the wind and rain today out to the greenhouse and rectified that. I also have ‘yellow scallop’ squash, butternut squash, courgettes, onion squash and a pumpkin in 16 roottrainer modules.
I’ve started moving some plants into the greenhouse, tomatoes have been moved out with no adverse reaction. I was hoping to move plants into the greenhouse as plants were moved outside but this year I’m being more patient and I’m leaving most plants until the start of June – Another change from the past couple of years.
I’m off to twiddle my thumbs patiently









