Home Ed Garden

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Sunflowers (left) and new carrots. The sunflowers are being eaten by slugs, no idea how to keep them off without using slug pellets which is obviously a no-go. Any ideas? Carrots sewn outside less than 2 weeks ago.

The courgettes mostly died. We have one left but that is rapidly being eaten by slugs too. The red onions that J sewed seem to be going ok though.

M’s spring onions are coming on well too, as are J’s carrots (although the carrots are a little bunched up, but not bad for his first attempt I think).

Lastly are our bought in plants, the tomato seedlings came to nothing so we needed to buy in plants (Alicante) or buy in tomatoes all summer… I didn’t sew runner beans so we bought a handful of plants (Scarlet) a few days ago. They really need to go into bigger pots now though…

in the form of seedlings.

The seeds we planted a week ago have all germinated so now we have tomato, carrot, courgette and red-sunflower seedlings all doing very nicely.

Carrot

Courgette

Tomato

Red Sunflowers

The paper pots are holding their own although they don’t look too great.   

It’s been a cold few days here so not much going on in the garden at the moment.  The rabbit has enjoyed a little time out in his run which has kept the grass down a little but not much else occurring outside.

 I created some newspaper seedling pots, which should rot down into nothing once planted out, the other night.  I looked up various sites on how to do it but was getting nowhere, so just got a spice pot form the cupboard, rolled the newspaper around it, squished in the bottom and then folded the top over inside itself to keep it all in place.  No idea if it will work or not in the long term but for now they are functional and are not costing the earth.

Jack filled the pots with various seeds (Carrots, courgettes, tomatoes, sunflowers) and watered them (with a squirty-juice bottle as we don’t have a teeny tiny watering can!) and now they are placed on the shelf by the window unitl I can think of somewhere else for them to go…

We did have a few flurries of snow, but the previously sewn seeds have not germinated yet so should be okay. I think the boys are planning on sewing some more to go under glass just in case…