Pushing up the daisies

BIG Gardening weekend! it was a 5 day weekend for me so I broke my back in the garden as usual. But I feel quite vinidcated in all the work I got done. let's make a list:

Planted:

• about 35-40 tomatoes,
• 4 sweet peppers,
  
• 15 sweetcorn,
• one more courgette that was looking lonely at home,
  
• 6 chards,
  
• French marigolds all over the shop

The tomatoes being planted:
Sowed:

• 2 rows of yellow wax beans (the kids did those), Coco de Paimpol beans around the sweetcorn.

Weeded:

• lots of onions, garlic, broad beans, fruit bed

Harvested!!:

• our first artichokes, 2 big ones. The most delicious ever eaten...
• about a kilo of broad beans, the first I have ever eaten! hubby and I liked them, the kids went yuuukkk. Still I like them as plants so I will do them again next year. They were overwintered Aquadulce.
• 2 strawberries, the first of the year. and the kids ate the lot. still there are lots more on the way ;-)

Admired lovingly:

• the potatoes which have been earthed up and look fab. just a few more weeks....
• the rasperries and gooseberries - the goosegogs have their first fruit ripening
• the peas, ok a very small patch but they look strong and healthy (note to self - do them in the polytunnel again next year...)
• the various flowers etc that are springing up, including on the thyme, pretty pale lilac flowers

This is what the lottie looked like this week: except that now the tarp has been moved to the "WIll be beans area" and thetomatoes have been planted.

At home, I sowed some more basil (I just can't succeed with that) and Sweet William (I killed the first lot), transplanted some skinny leeks into richer pots, transplanted the broccoli into bigger pots. SO all is looking set up now for the season.
I would like to sow some more carrots and beets but I will probably get around to that next weekend, it won't take long.
happy happy happy gardener (with very sore muscles...)

Labels: artichoke, broad beans, broccoli, corn, courgette, harvest, peppers, spring, strawberry, tomatoes