Turns out the Dwarf Bean seeds didn’t have any juice left in them – none popped up. The leftover Green Feast peas all died, but the Coriander is living its best life 🙂
Planted Potatoes & Bee-friendly seeds in spare plot
06 Sunday Jul 2025
Category Archives: Winter
Planted Jonquil bulbs in spare plot
05 Thursday Jun 2025
Side-plot planting
01 Sunday Jun 2025
Loaded up the plot next to us with Dwarf bean seeds (will interesting to see if they have run out of juice, or were they just eaten by birds in our plot), left over Green Feast peas & Coriander.
Seedlings to the rescue
31 Saturday May 2025
Planted seedlings today after not much luck with seeds, from what was left at the local nursery : Coriander & Green Feast peas.
Frost 19 & 21st May
21 Wednesday May 2025
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Planted Freesia & Jonquil bulbs
14 Wednesday May 2025
Status of seeds experiment
25 Friday Apr 2025
Not much luck with seeds this winter. Even with a second try, next year we will stick to seedlings (if we repeat this year’s cover of sugar cane mulch).
We tried Beetroot (okay), Carrots (not bad), Dwarf beans (3 plants, 1 died after being trampled), Sugar & Snap peas (4 plants).
Winter planting
30 Sunday Mar 2025
We were on holidays, so our crops have been neglected. Also, #fruitfly has affected the entire Veg Out garden. Some of our tomatoes (mostly, the larger ones) definitely had wee worms when we returned. Unsure if it’ll happen again in the 2025/26 season, but we are going back to self-seeding our own tomatoes next year.
All that said, we’ve now got #oxalis in a big way sad face. No idea where from…
Six hours of trying to pick out every single bloody #oxalis bulb later, plus 3 hours of separating the worms from the castings, plus four hours of digging the castings and straw through the patch, plus 3 hours of planting seedings and seeds, we now have out winter crops planted phew.
Winter is coming
24 Monday Jun 2013
A lot has changed in the last 2 months – there’s no need to water the patch every day and temperatures are dropping…
What we’re doing now
Once a week, we venture in to harvest Kale and Cos lettuce, both great Winter crops. We have enough to share with friends and still have some left over for ourselves.
Carrots, peas and chives are growing slowly (we learnt our lesson to limit how much we planted). Our only casualty has been the baby spinach, which never looked healthy and clearly didn’t like its environment…maybe it was the Kale…
Winter crops
From Little Seeds Big Things Grow 