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Foxglove has bloomed
Oct 22, 2007 | 1:38 AM PST
Tags: foxglove , apple , nashi , cherry , almond , onions , seed tape , garlic

It's an inspiring but also frustrating time in the garden. I'm trying to wait until the last danger of frost has passed before planting out my eggplants, chillies and tomatoes. The vegetable beds are bare and the greenhouse is full. The last frost frost should be in 2 weeks.. 2 weeks is such a long time! ! After this, I will move my dwarfed trees out of the greenhouse (apple, nashi, almond and cherry!)

My foxgloves are starting to bloom as you can see..

This morning I planted out some shallots bulbs as well as some spring onion tape. It was my first time using the seed tape and it was difficult to manage in garden gloves. I couldn't decided whether it was convenient or not. My white, brown and red onions are swelling, which is exciting. I transplanted some garlic and it was also forming medium sized bulbs. It's my first time growing garlic, and my second time with onions. I've learnt so much..

Also on my to-do list this morning was to plant seed potatoes, but the site I had chosen wasn't big enough. I had to go to work so that will have to wait until another day.

Tell me about these seeds!
Jul 24, 2007 | 3:15 AM PST
Tags: cucumber , Bell Peppers , onions , long green eggplant , pak choi , pole beans , snowpea

Hi all! Do not be mistaken - these aren't my veggies, this is the picture from the seed shop of the seeds that arrived today. We'll have to see whether my summer peppers will look as cute as this picture! I'm new to peppers, and I thought that it would be fun to buy the mixed seeds and wait and see what color that they will be. I also got purplette onion, Louisiana long green eggplant, green dragon F1 cucumber, mei quing choi F1 pak choi, stutttgart long keeper onion, purple pole bean and snowpea goliath.

If you have grown any of these please tell me some stories - did they grow abnormally or get sick? Were they easy peasy? What to watch out for? I love hearing ppl discussing their vegetables and I've only grown most of these in video games! As a virtual farmer, I got to see all of the stages of vegetable growth in pixels, but not irl.

I recently planted some seed for tomatoes, chillis and eggplants. I will be growing them inside as winter draws to an end. And that's all from me!