Gardening starts today!

It's time to start planting some plants in the new vegetable garden.

So it's out with the Yates garden guide to check what to put in. 

With some brassicas (cabbages, cauliflower and broccoli) in already the first row of seeds is peas. Apparently peas take 7 to 10 days to come up and 12 to 16 weeks till they are ready to pick (Christmas?). I'll keep you posted. 

The new garden is lined with black polythene and contains a mixture of soil from the garden, compost, gypsum and some garden mix from South Hort (oops and some newspaper at the bottom to stop the weeds and a layer of pea straw part the way through - but no pea straw in the beds for the root vegetables as I don't think they will grow well through it).