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Ack! Some of my Radish came up blind (didn’t bulb up properly). It’s my own fault - I forgot to thin the row so they ended up overcrowded, which Radishes hate. It makes sense. They don’t have enough room to grow sideways so they grow up instead. So, make sure to thin your Radish to at least 2-3 cm apart, and keep them watered.

When I first started watching this video, my heart lurched a little, because the woman in this video looks and sounds a lot like my aunt who has been gone for 8 years. It's not her, though, naturally. Anyway, this is a pretty interesting video on propagating forsythia.

When I first started vegetable gardening I was very confused about what constituted a successional vegetable. Gardeners on TV shows and in books were always harping on about ‘carrying on with your successional sowings’ like everyone knew what to do. I didn’t.

I planted my Cauliflowers today. I sowed them with the tomatoes back in March and now they are about 10cm high. Because we have a walled garden the temperature is a little higher inside than outside so it’s totally safe to plant out Cauliflowers. I watched a show once where they suggested mixing lime with potting compost.

Of late not only is the Hand Foot Mouth Disease starting to pick up, but computer viruses are beginning to adapt the recent behavior of their distant cousins. Yes, apparently, the viruses in my laptop are having one helluva time propagating and cross-infecting and are so promiscuous that the same

“Semi-Ripe-Cutting” is a specific technique you must know if you are an active gardener. Propagating new plants becomes extremely easy with this simple technique. It is one of the most economical gardening techniques also. When the new shoots start turning woody in a plant it means that it is ripening.

Honestly, I haven’t had that much success with Parsnips in the past. I have either sown them too early (no germination) or too late (very small Parsnips). Or slugs have eaten them, or they have just plain failed. This year I’m trying again and hoping that now my garden is literally on my doorstep that I can tend them sufficiently well to produce something edible.

It’s time to replant the Tomato seedlings that I put in the heated propagator a few weeks ago. I’m growing two cherry tomatoes (Sub Arctic, and Gardeners Delight) and one standard variety (Robin). I may also buy some yellow variety tomato plants later on from the garden centre.

We learned about five years ago how to propagate plants. I had always known how to put starts in water to root them. That works well with wandering jew, ivy, and coleus. Then we tried stem cuttings. This has been very successful with geraniums. Last Sunday was propagating day in the greenhouse.

If, like me, you sowed some peas in guttering in the cold frame then now’s the time to put them in the ground. They’re pretty frost hardy and so should be able to cope with just about anything (even snow in April!). Don’t forget to water them before you attempt to slide out the seedlings to enable them to come out in one piece.