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Seeing as today the sunrise is officially <8.00am and its still light at 5pm how is everyone doing with planting stuff ?
I've got garlic up in modules -planted 6wks ago.
No broad beans up yet -planted same time but v old seed ..........
Thinking time to get propagator out and start toms and chillis ...
What is everyone else doing ??
George

I'll be doing assorted chilli's in Feb and the usual tatties then apples, plums & rhubarb if fortunate. We spend a lot of time away so they need to be survivors!

Garlic is up & looking good.
I've just planted onion seeds & a few sweet peas in trays inside, with a heated mat & also trying out full spectrum grow lights (only cheapo usb ones) to see if they help

Trying things in the poly tunnel, my first winter. Broccoli was looking great, until the mice found them, despite 6 traps. The spinach hanging in there. First broad beans in small pots high above the mice were doing well until the shelf slipped and they fell onto the floor and the mice had them. peas up 4" and survived the frost, so far.

oooo early for peas tho ??
Thinking will plant a lot of broadbeans in trays ..........v old seed but got lots......
Need to look in seed tin for chilli and tom seeds ........ itching to plant .......
Been to the allottment today and picked Romanesco Cauli (its a strong taste tho) , swede and leeks.
Was asked to help dispatch 2 cockerals for a friend. Dislike killing stuff but honour and respect life ....... we are carnivores. Zero travel , quick death.
Result = 2 cockerals 4lb 8oz and 4lb 11oz dressed. No one wants them ???
so 1 in freezer and other in slo cooker with stock cube and herbs.......
Tomorrows tea.

I'm going to miss the small greenhouse in the back garden but the line behind the 12 bungalows is a wind tunnel and the wind won after 11 years. So it's a whole different planting season as the allotment has been given up too. First planting of the season is 12 Montbretia corms in a tray on the window sill indoors. I know, I know .. they have been renamed Crocosmia Lucifer but it doesn't change the plant. They can still be merry thugs so will go in tubs.

If it ever stops raining .....

ecogeorge wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:39 pm oooo early for peas tho ??
Thinking will plant a lot of broadbeans in trays ..........v old seed but got lots......
Need to look in seed tin for chilli and tom seeds ........ itching to plant .......
Been to the allottment today and picked Romanesco Cauli (its a strong taste tho) , swede and leeks.
Was asked to help dispatch 2 cockerals for a friend. Dislike killing stuff but honour and respect life ....... we are carnivores. Zero travel , quick death.
Result = 2 cockerals 4lb 8oz and 4lb 11oz dressed. No one wants them ???
so 1 in freezer and other in slo cooker with stock cube and herbs.......
Tomorrows tea.

I suddenly realized that chickens abroad are quite different from those in China, probably due to different farming methods.

Cut the chicken into small pieces, open a fresh coconut, and take some coconut meat. Boil the coconut juice first, then add the chicken.

This is a popular dish in Guangdong—**Coconut Chicken Hot Pot**.

Maybe you can give it a try?

Colin Deng wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:55 am

ecogeorge wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:39 pm oooo early for peas tho ??
Thinking will plant a lot of broadbeans in trays ..........v old seed but got lots......
Need to look in seed tin for chilli and tom seeds ........ itching to plant .......
Been to the allottment today and picked Romanesco Cauli (its a strong taste tho) , swede and leeks.
Was asked to help dispatch 2 cockerals for a friend. Dislike killing stuff but honour and respect life ....... we are carnivores. Zero travel , quick death.
Result = 2 cockerals 4lb 8oz and 4lb 11oz dressed. No one wants them ???
so 1 in freezer and other in slo cooker with stock cube and herbs.......
Tomorrows tea.

I suddenly realized that chickens abroad are quite different from those in China, probably due to different farming methods.

Cut the chicken into small pieces, open a fresh coconut, and take some coconut meat. Boil the coconut juice first, then add the chicken.

This is a popular dish in Guangdong—**Coconut Chicken Hot Pot**.

Maybe you can give it a try?

Probably the feed.

Chicken meat was much more of a grey/yellow colour in my childhood. Now it is bright pink.

Hard to say which is "better".

Broad beans are up in the office - I do really need to get some more indoor seeds planted - time for chillis etc - hopefully this weekend - been distracted recently with insulating under the lounge floor

My garlic and broad beans are in the ground. I've never understood the fuss of planting such things in modules, garlic particularly, they are as tough as old boots. The broad beans do suffer a bit if too wet perhaps, so I put them in a better drained area.

Onions went in at New Year, those are in seed trays in a propagator at 14C, and looking OK. Sowing in a seed tray, pricking out into a richer compost in modules, then planting out in spring worked well in last year's experiment, so see if the success is consistent. I've tried direct sown (disaster in my heavy clay), multisown in modules (seem to be more susceptible to white rot when growing in bunches ?), sets (feels like cheating).

Tomatoes and most importantly chillies ( ) to go in as soon as I get time ...