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"Alan Holmes" writes:
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| My first early pots are just begining to show, put the second
earlies in
| about a week ago, and today planted the maincrop!
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| And discovered a few tomatoes begining to form.

A BIT!

My first broad beans are showing pods, but the only things I have cropped
are rocket, goosefoot (self-sown), spinach and strawberries. I haven't
even planted out my warm-weather crops yet, and most are 1" high. What
is more, 75% of that was NOT me being late, but the catastrophicly cold
spring.

Dammit, I lost 90% of my broccoli due to the winter and have had to sow
my French beans FOUR times, because they rotted due to the cold (UNDER
GLASS) :-(

We're eating (outdoor) potatoes, lettuce and rhubarb. But I've had
the worst-ever year for seed germination in the open garden; the peas
and broad beans are just pathetic, rocket even worse, and I have a
grand total of 4 sweetcorn plants. Runner beans are sitting at the
bottom of their wigwam playing dumb; yesterday I tied them all to their
stake to give them a clue.

Janet.

--
Isle of Arran Open Gardens weekend 21,22,23 July 2006
5 UKP three-day adult ticket (funds go to island charities) buys entry
to 26 private gardens

I'm also eating outdoor potatoes (Lady Christl which have done really
well) and various lettuces. I have a glut of mangetout, good broad
beans, rather sparse peas, excellent calabrese with the biggest heads
I've ever had, some spinach beet, Hispi cabbage and from the poytunnel
carrots and one or two small cucumbers.

I haven't attempted outdoor germination of much at all except for leeks
and carrots for some time now because of mouse (or vole?) damage.

Janet G