Showing posts with label bunching onion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bunching onion. Show all posts

Friday, 21 January 2011

Grape in the ground

Last weekend I finally planted my grape plant that had been in the greenhouse. It had been in a pot all Summer but it had been a lot of hard work watering it.

It had 2 stems growing out of the pot so I removed the pot and put the spade down the middle to split the plant in half. The smallest section went back in to the pot, visible in the bottom right hand corner of the picture with some more compost/soil mix. The larger plant went in to the ground. I had already dug a whole and broke it up at the bottom, I added a hand full of bone,blood and fish meal. It went in with no problem and then I filled in the spaces down the side with soil. The plants was already being trained down wires on either side. Fingers crossed for more grapes this year. this variety is unknown and was grown from seed by my uncle in the 70ies. I have a Boskoop Glory planted outside


My wiki on growing this grape during the Summer of 2010

This is a quick shot of a dead Achocha "Fat Baby" plant killed by frost. It produced well but did not grow as well as other years. I need to remove the plant to the compost heap



My wiki on growing Achocha Fat baby from seed

This a "Helens Welsh Siberian Bunching Onion". I grew it last year and it is like a spring onion and you pull it when ready but unlike spring onions as long as you leave one in the ground it will bunch up and grow more at the side of the original plant. Useful. I grew it in pots last year and it grew well but I never got round to trying it. It is already starting to grow again so hopefully some early salad. I will planting some in the ground though this year and I hope it will spread




This is the strawberry patch at around 5pm this evening, still frost on the ground. A very cold day.



The weather in Wakefield today is cold and dry.


Saturday, 12 June 2010

Garden is growing well

My blueberry plant is slowly growing. I will soon be potting in on in to a larger pot but I also need to buy a second plant. They are sold as self fertile but bushes produce better with a second bush near by. this variety is "Goldtraube"




these are perennial bunching onions variety "Helens Welsh" They are like spring onions and you eat the entire plant when pulled but unlike spring onions they grow and multiply so you should only every need one plant and it will keep multiplying. Time will tell, Apparently this is a Russian variety and in this case "welsh" means foreign


The goji plant is growing well but again it needs potting on



Weather report - warm sunny, Wakefield, England