Onions and Radish - Mid March 2013

Radish Seedlings

I noticed that my Radish seedlings are starting to come up. I planted them at the beginning of March and they are now just popping up. I have put them underneath a cloche for now, as our British weather is drunk and doesn't know what it is doing.

I have been checking Metcheck.com  quite a lot recently, I love this site as it is one of the most accurate that I have found so far, that actually updates roughly hourly using local weather stations, it's awesome.

Metcheck is good as it gives you a good idea for the night-time temperatures for your area and just looking at mine, I can see that it's still pretty cold at night.

My beautiful pumpkin starts were hit really bad by the hard frost we had the other week, and even though they were under cover in a mini greenhouse, they have still died, so I think I will have to plant the seed direct into the SFG ( Square Foot Garden). I have had a look at the seed packet and it said to plant out in March, but I think I'll leave it till the end of March as the weather is still taking tequila shots.

The onion sets have survived, although they haven't grown much the past couple of weeks. (By the way, the grid you can see, it's to stop the cats digging in the garden)

You can see them all bending to the light which tells me that there aint much of it at the moment.

I'm probably going to plant out at the end of march, everything that needs to go out. I reckon that with the way everything is going, the seeds will no doubt take a while to send up shoots but the bed should be warm and well-drained enough to keep the seeds viable.

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