Coming along nicely.

The recent wet and windy weather meant that I had to wait to move the rest of my seedlings outside, so my conservatory was starting to get a bit overrun with plants.

Thankfully the weather has now improved a little and I was able to get some of them transplanted outside.

One of my beds coming along nicely.

Left to right and back to front: Squash, Kale, Kale, Kale, Parsnips, Carrots (just starting to appear) and Kale. The other two squares are still empty for now.

Left to right and back to front: Kale, Kale, Squash, Cabbage, Cabbage, Cabbage, Swede, Swede and some unknown seedlings that I lost the label from. 

I moved some of my corn out with my pumpkins and squash so hopefully they will do OK.

The corn isn't looking too good today.

My strawberry plants are doing well though. 

I was worried about the one in the top right, but appears to be perking up again. 

This one has several flowers so hopefully I will have some fruit soon.

Moving outside.

Well I'm finally starting to see some progress. The seeds I has sown directly outside are starting to grow and most of the seeds I had sown indoors have really flourished. I'm only just starting to transplant them outside now because we've had frost several nights recently.

Peas started inside in egg boxes.

Hardening off my seedlings before planting them outside.

Some of the seeds sown directly outside starting to appear.

Climbing Beans transplanted outside.

Parsnips moved outside.

My strawberry plants. I'm hoping to get a few more to add to this bed.

My pumpkins/Squashes just planted out this evening. 

Starting out.

 For the last few weeks I've been starting my seeds inside on my windowsills in various recycled containers such as egg boxes, coffee cups, toilet roll inserts and yogurt pots.

Hello again!

I started this blog several years ago when I first decided to try and grow my own veg. That particular endeavour didn't work out according to plan so both the blog and the veg growing were abandoned.

Roll on to 2021 and I've decided to have another go at vegetable growing, and I've restarted my blog so I can record my progress.

I'm planning on growing most of my veg in raised beds using the square foot gardening method and I'm also experimenting with straw/hay bale gardening using an old hay bale I found in the shed.

I got himself to make me two raised beds and placed cardboard underneath them as a weed barrier. 

Then I filled both with a mixture of homemade compost, soil & potting compost. 

My beds are approximately 6 foot x 3 foot so I got himself to divide them into 1 foot square sections to make it easier for me to plant using the square foot method.