Grow Your Own Veg

Lettuce and rocket

2008-03-30T15:41:00.002+01:00

Sowed Lettuce (Australian and American leaf lettuce - Horti Tops) and and Rocket (Semillas Batlle) today. A very sunny and rainy day at the same time.

Planting in- and outdoors

2008-03-20T18:00:00.003+01:00

Planted out some of the pea seedlings. They grew very quickly as a result of the nice weather.

Sowed Lavender, basil, thyme, strawberries, courgette and cucumber. For now they need a bit of protection and I have sown them in the seed trays I bought last year.

Cleaned up some of the raised beds.

Beetroot and spinach

2008-03-01T19:14:00.003+01:00

Sowed a couple of rows of spinach and two rows of beetroot today. First time I try these. Let's see how it goes.

The peas I sowed during the last two weeks are starting to germinate.

Last two weeks we had warm weather for the season.

Update. I took this picture a couple of weeks later. Spinach is coming along fine, no sign of beetroot though. How about those leeks...

Peas

2008-02-10T19:31:00.004+01:00

Planted 9 pea seeds 10 Feb, will plant another 18 seeds 24 Feb.

Variety Alderman, Mascarell Semillas, Valencia. Bought in Grado 2007.

Very dry weather, cold during the early morning, warming up until approximately 15-18C.

Built some support for them as well.

Planted Savoy cabbage

2007-11-17T11:24:00.000+01:00

Planted two variaties, 6 x Penca, 6 x Berza. Plants bought in Llana CB, Llanera.

Planting onions and garlic

2007-11-11T11:22:00.001+01:00

Planted aproximately 100 onions today. Bought in Grado's nursery. Also planted out about 10 small garlic bulbs.

Planting leaks

2007-11-04T11:19:00.000+01:00

Planted about a 100 leaks today in plot 1. Plants bought in Grado's Sunday market.

Neighbours

2007-07-03T19:30:00.000+01:00

We found out someone moved in. Seems mother and child(ren) are doing well.

The weather has taken a turn for the worse. Currently we are stuck at 16 degrees at midday.

Courgette soup

2007-06-27T19:15:00.000+01:00

We have the beginnings of a great tasting soup. The two photos on the left are of 18 June, the one on the right was taken the 27th of June.

Some nice looking lettuce

2007-06-17T19:26:00.000+01:00

Ready to eat.

Strawberries finally

2007-06-14T19:05:00.000+01:00

Some of the strawberries are now ready. Keep um comin'!

By the 9 June.

Now .

Courgettes on their way

2007-06-12T19:29:00.000+01:00

Took this photo yesterday, by today all six plants carry flowers, at least one each.

Good weather

2007-06-10T19:35:00.000+01:00

Even the weeds are having a good time with all the sun and rain.

Our veg garden by June 9th

2007-06-09T19:12:00.000+01:00

The lettuce is growing strong, as are our courgettes. We had some days with lots of heat and rain.

And it seems they are enjoying. Lettuce in the background

Out: Radish In: Butterhead Lettuce and Onions

2007-06-02T10:43:00.000+01:00

We already planted out some of the plants in the beginning of May.

We have been eating quite of bit of Radish and Rucula, so we have some space to plant out some more Lettuce and Onions.

Nice warm weather, I guess about 20C.

I will definately sow some more Radish! They tasted great. Photo of 1st of June.

The Cucumber plants are doing great, I think next week we will be able to plant them out.

Others we need to look for some space for http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origanum_majorana, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil.

Coffee and gardening

2007-05-30T10:37:00.000+01:00

I have tried this myself, with excellent results.

http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/Business/coffeefert.htm

Courgettes, peppers and tomatoes

2007-05-19T17:49:00.000+01:00

For now our last additions before we plant out the cucumbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber.

The end result looks promissing. The courgettes grew really quickly during this warm week, so they we ready to plant out. The rest of the plants were bought, and needed planting out as well.

They are on their own now.

Onions ahoy

2007-05-15T17:45:00.000+01:00

We planted the onions we bought last Sunday. We planted some 50 of them.

We'll plant another 50 in the plot that is now planted up with radishes, carrots and rocket salad.

First crop

2007-05-14T17:23:00.000+01:00

This week we had our first crop from the plot. Radishes and rocket salad.

We got quite a bit of Cress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_cress already from our sowing trays. This must be one the easiest things to grow, and it tastes really nice in salads and sandwiches. It takes about 7-10 days from sowing to harvesting.

Prepare for onions

2007-05-13T18:33:00.000+01:00

Lots of wind today. I guess winds of above 100km/h. We tried to protect our red currants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcurrant and raspberries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry as best as we could.

We double dug another small plot to plant out the onions we bought today.

As it was sunny, we had pretty decent temperatures.

Lettuce

2007-05-12T13:12:00.000+01:00

We planted out some 30 lettuces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce from the seed tray out to the plot. We first sowed them 16Apr. The plot was double dug, and 3-4 wheelbarrows full of compost were mixed with the heavy clay.

We also prepared one of our plots to plant out the tomato and pepper plants we bought last week.

We had some nice weather, aproximately 20C I guess.

Composting

2007-05-05T09:42:00.000+01:00

Some good tips here!

Visit Gardening tips and ideas. I have also added it to this feed.

Tomatos and Peppers

2007-05-02T19:57:00.000+01:00

Could not resist buying six Pepper plants and 4 Cherry tomato plants. I will pot them up for now.

Plot update

2007-05-01T19:54:00.000+01:00

Our radishes our doing great. No sign of our carrots.

It can still be a bit cold at night, so at might we use a fleece to cover our veggies.

Replanting courgettes

2007-05-01T19:47:00.000+01:00

The courgettes were getting a bit too big for the little green houses we were using. We have replanted them in yogurt cups. Next time their destination will be our plot. First sowed on 14Apr.

By today our seedlings look like this. You can see the courgette seedlings in the middle towards the bottom of the photo.

Learning as weg go...

Plant Rocket salad

2007-04-29T10:47:00.000+01:00

Decided to plant the small Rocket salad plants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arugula from the seed tray out to the plot. We first sowed them 16Apr.

Might be too early, let's see how they do. I don't think I will plant these seeds in a seed tray again. I will sow them directly in the plot.

The weather was ok on Sunday (cloudy 15-20C), but by the end of the day we had some thunderstorms and lots of rain. Looks like we will have this for a couple of days.

Pears are coming

2007-04-20T20:00:00.000+01:00

We planted four pear trees in 2006. We had quite a bit of blossom a few weeks ago. But we had some bad weather, and it cooled down quite a bit. We were fearing the worst. Today, we spotted our first pear.

Wondering if we should let it grow...

Some more seeding

2007-04-16T18:43:00.000+01:00

Second day of seeding. We had nice weather today as well, cloudy 10-20C.

Arugula Eruca Sativa, Semillas Batlle Spain, Viveros Santa Marina, seed tray.
Parseley, SHAL Isemillas e Hidrosiembras Alavesas, Viveros Santa Marina, seed tray.

Seeding time

2007-04-14T21:50:00.000+01:00

Today we sowed our first vegetables. Nice weather. Soil was quite dry. We had to sprinkle some water after seeding.

Carrots, ?, Lidl supermarket, hybrid, plot.
Tomatos Cocktail, Semillas Batlle Spain, Local shop San Claudio, seed tray.
Peppers California Wonder, Rocalba Spain, Local shop San Claudio, seed tray.
Squash Diamant, ?, Lidl supermarket, hybrid, seed tray.
Cucomber Marketmore 70, Semillas Clemente Spain, Viveros Santa Marina, seed tray.
Lettuce Butterhead, Vilmorin, Leroy Merlin, seed tray.
Radish Sofia, ?, Lidl supermarket, hybrid, plot.
Strawberry Fragaria, Semillas Batlle Spain, Local shop San Claudio, seed tray.
Basil, ?, Lidl supermarket, seed tray.
Common Cress, ?, Lidl supermarket, seed tray.
Chives, ?, Lidl supermarket, seed tray.
Marjoram, ?, Lidl supermarket, seed tray.

More preparation

2007-03-14T21:21:00.000+01:00

Added goat manure granules to further improve soil fertility.

Planned sowing date, mid april.

Preparation

2006-11-01T21:12:00.000+01:00

November 2006, two small 1.5x3.0m plots were prepared. Well rotted leafes from the compost heap mixed with the heavy clay soil. The plots were dug over several times to break up the soil.