How big is your Pumpkin ?

After a weeks growing we feel our pumpkins are getting established. We lavished plenty of water onto them over the last week even though there has been a threat of rain, unfortunately the rain we received did not really get well into the soil so Julian has been giving these a good soaking each day. How are yours getting on?

Julians environmental commute

Julian ( our head gardener) lives in Bournemouth but commutes to the garden via train and bicycle, very environmentally friendly. He always makes sure his attire is well seen while cycling, note the shoes !

Turnip delight

Having only planted our turnips 8 weeks ago in our raised beds we are delighted to now be harvesting delightful baby turnips. This really shows the benefits and advantages a raised bed can bring.

Recycle old pallets

Today we have started to build our compost bins from re-cycled pallets, our method of build does not involve digging or fixing posts into the ground, not ground breaking just a lazy mans way of construction. It won't be long before we have filled these bins up as we will be putting all our green waste from the Garden centre, coffee shop and garden. The work now begins on making great compost, plenty of aeration and turning of the materials.

Giant Pumpkins

It would appear our Giant Pumpkin competition is really getting going, we have sold quite a few over the weekend in the Garden Centre.
Having only just planted ours out in the Learning Garden last week we are making sure they do not get any checks at the moment so we are applying plenty of water so they do not dry out while they are making their roots.

Eel worm attack

It looks like we have discovered the first signs of eel-worm in our Chinese radish today.
Planting out Borlotto beans that have been raised in our nursery poly-tunnels.
More courgettes and sweet corn being planted today again all raised under-cover to be in the perfect condition for planting.

Pumkins are go

We are planting out all our pumpkins and gourds today (11th June 2008) including one of our special Giant Pumpkins. Remember we have posted a fact sheet on how to grow pumpkins on our site at Fact sheets here we are giving away some of the trade secrets on how to achieve a whopper.