Potatoes and Blooming Bluebells

Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's off to garden we go



The Rocket from last week has started to come up already.



The bed of Charlotte potatoes is really going for it now, we've earthed up the 4 or 5 plants that were over 15 cm tall. We'll earth up all of them next weekend.



We earthed up the Roosters in their compost bags too :)



The bluebells are blooming, and looking beautiful. We pulled up one that was growing through the middle of the path and gave it to Abi to play with...after I'd modelled it for a photo ;)



The whitecurrants have set berries on, we've netted them up to keep the birds off. The birds had taken some of the berries already, but I think we've saved 95% of them.



The cherry tree is blooming wonderfully, it's a shame we have to net it up.



The blueberry from Wigglys is all set to flower too. The one from Marshalls looks like it won't be bothering this year, but it's looking healthy so hopeful for next year.



The Wisteria is just beginning to bloom too, so the whole of that side of the garden should be covered in beautiful purple flowers within a week or so. Then it will be bee and butterfly mad back there :)

Mini Herbs :(

After chasing up delivery of a herb collection I ordered in January for delivery in early March I finally received them this morning.

I'm amazed that a company sells such teeny tiny plug plants for the cost. I paid £6.95 for this

http://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/herb-plant-collection-pid2852.html

Look at the lovely established plants on the site. I wasn't expecting a huge established plant but I'm still shocked by the parcel that arrived.

The original plan was to chuck them straight into the herb bed, but I've potted them on for now to give them chance to establish first.

After all the hassles of repeatedly chasing customer service for some kind of ETA on my plants, plus the quality of the delivered product compared to other companies, I don't think I'll be using Marshalls again.

Still waiting....

Well still waiting for any delivery from Marshalls...I've emailed once and called, they can only confirm it's not yet on it's way. They can't say what will be to follow, or when I can expect it...only some stuff will make it's way to me soonish. Grrrr

In contrast, Wiggly delivered within 4 days, everything except the horseradish root and there's a note on the packing note that it is to follow in spring.

Tomorrow I'll edit this note with some photo's. We're off outside to do some minor repairs to the greenhouse, turn the compost to get those wormies moving and rake some of the leaves of the raised beds.

I've also bought some Basil seeds as that was one herb missing from my last order, and I want to companion plant them with my tomatoes :)

Eep

Well, that's it...orders for seeds, plants and trees have been made.

I wanted to get most of our items from wigglywigglers.co.uk, but unfortunately they were out of stock of most of the bits we wanted so we went to marshalls-seeds instead.

Orders have been made for;

Yellow Radish MSC 7695 (Seed Trial)

Runner Bean Pickwick Seeds

Broccoli Early Purple Sprouting Seeds Blend

Carrot Nandor Seeds

Cucumber Ilas

Lettuce Match Seeds

Pepper Lany Seeds

Perpetual Spinach Seeds

Tomato Shirley Seeds - Cordon

Apple Tree Elstar

Cherry Tree Crown Morello

Strawberry Flamenco Plants - Everbearer

Loganberry Thornless LY654 Plant

Onion Red Baron Seeds

Herb - Collection

Herb Chives Seeds

Cabbage Mila Seeds

Cauliflower All The Year Round Seeds

Potato Charlotte Pre-chitted - Salad

Aubergine Moneymaker Seeds

Blueberry Bluecrop Bush

Chilli Pepper Jalapeno Seeds

Mint Brundall plants x 3 We still ended up going to wigglys for Rooted Horseradish, 2 Roots Tree Hook, 800mm - for our birdfeeder Wiggly Seed, 3kg bag - birdseed Metal Planter, 190mm Square Metal Planter x 2- bargain and will be for my mint. Flower Meadow Seed Mix, 10g - I think it's a fab idea, and will help with pollenation too Ecover Washing-up Liquid, 5 litre Lemon New Bottle Garden is mostly planned out, will need to double check some rotation information and redo it. Then I'll scan in a pic. Also I have a wonderful gardening book to help me plan and document what's happening. Dodo Book No pics on this post,because I'm too lazy to go outside for too long..hehe