It's been a busy start to the month, not surprising really as March is the real start of the growing season, well it is in my book - the month that sees onion sets and early potatoes planted on the allotment is a 'proper' planting month. I'm ahead of myself though, it's only the first week of March and the onions and spuds have another week or two in storage yet.
This week I've transplanted tomatoes from the pot in which they were sowed and moved them to individual pots. I want to grow eight plants of Alicante in the greenhouse plus a few cherry type Gardener's Delight in large pots.
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I'm still keeping the tomatoes on a windowsill in the house as during this week we have had some low temperatures at night, quite rare this winter as there have been very few heavy frosts. I just used a pencil, a useful tool, for pricking out seedlings and re-planting. It's OK to plant the seedlings deeper to encourage rooting from the seedling stem and to avoid 'leggy' plants.
I also sowed two pots of Marketmore cucumbers, dropping three seeds into each small pot and I will thin out to one plant after germination. I've popped these into a heated propagator. Again I'll keep these relatively warm inside the house after they pop up as the unheated greenhouse is just too cold at night for tomatoes and cucumbers at the moment. However, the day-time temperatures are slightly on the climb this week with far less rain and a bit more sunshine. The last sowing this week was lettuce, I've done a few modules of Webb's Wonderful and Iceburg, I've got some Lollo Rossa to do too. These will be thinned then will grow on and they'll be planted out next month.
The broad beans are looking strong in the deep root trainers at the moment and I've already constructed an ad-hoc cloche on the plot to warm the soil up a bit; I'll plant them out in the next week or so but for now I'm giving them a weekly light feed with liquid Growmore just to stop them becoming deficient in nutrients as the compost can quickly become exhausted.
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