The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on Mar 1st, 2010
I have sown the last one of the Carmen seeds which I bought in 2008. The seeds cost about £1 each and though we had a few cucumbers from the plants that matured there were not as many as the advert promised. It was probably my fault as a new grower but disappointing nevertheless.
Posted in Allotments on Feb 27th, 2010
Four seeds of Cucumber Jack Frost have gone into a 3″ pot of seed compost today and put to join yesterdays hopefuls. The big difference if that these are newly bought seeds from The Seed Merchant on ebay. They were 99p but there were thirty healthy looking seeds in the packet.
A beautiful crisp white cucumber [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 26th, 2010
I have sown four each of Cucumber Marketmore and Lemon. They are previous years seeds so it will be interesting to see what results I get with germination. I have put the pots into a polythene bag and stood them on the computer box for a little heat.
Marketmore is a basic cucumber like we can [...]
Posted in Allotments on Aug 7th, 2009
We spent a couple of hours at the plots this afternoon. The weather was warm and sunny and the ground was workable so we did a lot of weeding. Still back breaking work but easier than when the ground is dry or heavy with rain. Rob dug up a few rows of potatoes and we [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 3rd, 2009
Remember that little cucumber seedling? Well look what I found.
Posted in Allotments on May 15th, 2009
After a day of torrential rain the weather finally cleared up enough for us to pop down to the plots and install the second Cucumber Carmen in the lean to. The first plant is still surviving despite the cold spell we have had. We had a walk round to check on everything and so far [...]
Posted in Allotments on Apr 19th, 2009
We have taken the Cucumber plant, Carmen, and installed it in the lean to. It is surrounded by a fleece to protect it until it gets established.
The first of the Tomato plants is also in there. It is a Black Cherry, one of our favourites from last year.
After getting the ground to a fine tilth [...]
Posted in Allotments on Mar 31st, 2009
I have sown four seeds of the Cucumber Lemon this year. I have grown them before but gave them a miss last year. Apparently they will do well outside as well as in the greenhouse as long as there is no frost.
This is a great and much sought after variety of Cucumber. Sometimes confused with [...]
Posted in Allotments on Mar 11th, 2009
I am determined to have a more successful crop from this cucumber this year. I plan to put the plants on the least draughty side of the lean to with some extra protection as I have read that draught can be a killer for cucumber. I have read somewhere that John Innes number 3 compost [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jan 15th, 2008
Today I ordered some cucumber seeds, Carmen, from Thompson and Morgan, as advised by a forum member. I also ordered cauliflower and tomato seeds to make the order worthwhile. The cucumber seeds are very expensive at £7.99 for five but on a special deal at the moment the most expensive packet of seeds is free [...]
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