Tag: March

  • Sowing Pak Choi in March to May for a Summer Harvest

    Sowing Pak Choi in March to May for a Summer Harvest

    I didn’t know you could grow Pak Choi in the Summer time. I thought they were an autumn growing plant and as I was looking at a seed catalogue online, they came up to start sowing in March to May for a Summer Harvest. Pak Choi has a long oval shaped leaf with a small…

  • Vegetable Seed Sowing Update – Mid March

    Vegetable Seed Sowing Update – Mid March

    It has been a cold and wet start to March this year. I was worried about sowing too much too early and about the cold temperatures last week that were below zero degrees Celsius. However I have tried sowing my very early peas first in the cold unheated greenhouse to see what happens. The last…

  • Leek Flower Spike’s – Its time for Harvesting

    Leek Flower Spike’s – Its time for Harvesting

    Last week the flower spikes had arrived on our Leeks, really they should have all been harvested by the end of March but as our weather has been a month behind I had left them in the ground and forgotten about them. When the flower spikes appear on leeks, it means your leeks will get…

  • How to Sow Early Peas into Root Trainer Cells

    How to Sow Early Peas into Root Trainer Cells

    We started sowing two varieties of Pea this year in the middle of March. This is very early however we are trying to get as much out of our vegetable plot this year so are attempting to see if we can get peas out onto the plot and producing by the end of April. As…

  • Leek (Spring Onions) Harvest in Early April

    Leek (Spring Onions) Harvest in Early April

    By now in April, Leeks should have fattened up enough to start harvesting. Ours seem a little behind on the fattening up stage so we have left them in the garden and added some multipurpose compost mulch around the top of the stems in March to give them a bit of a nutrients boost. We…

  • Sowing Sweet Pepper and Chilli Pepper Seeds in March

    Sowing Sweet Pepper and Chilli Pepper Seeds in March

    Monty Don from BBC Gardeners World has beaten me to it this year and sowed his chilli Pepper seeds on Friday 19th March. If you didn’t see it, it was a brilliant and inspiring episode, watch it on catch up on the BBC iPlayer. Gardeners world will be following the progress of their chilli peppers…

  • Seed Sowing on the Spring Equinox – March 20th

    Seed Sowing on the Spring Equinox – March 20th

    Today was a cold and cloudy day, 9 degrees centigrade. My daughter found her first ladybird of the year today, a six spotted one which sat clinging to a blossom bud on our newly planted apple tree last year. We don’t often see ladybirds but we intend on trying to encourage them into our garden…

  • Vegetable Seeds to Sow in March

    Vegetable Seeds to Sow in March

    Some of you eager beavers (an English saying for being quick off the mark) might have already started sowing your seeds as the weather has become milder in recent days. However a word of caution here. There are still frosts and we may not be out of Winter totally yet which could still kill tender…