Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 48 Entries. Sunday, January 1 View Page A happy new year.   Monday, January 2 View Page my new SUNBASTER propagator cold light not LED.   Tuesday, January 24 View Page The winter job 18 foot hedge to 6 feet, this year is uncommonly cold zero minus every day, we need the cold to kill the bugs. onions doing well, next week we move them to the greenhouse.   Wednesday, March 15 View Page the mammoth hedge job finished, now I can start to propagate seeds.   Thursday, March 16 View Page another view   Saturday, April 8 View Page alsae onion standard type as a trial and experimenting different gowth medium, this is in pro canna +c40   Saturday, April 8 View Page another similar to the previous but in kafka +JI   Saturday, April 8 View Page have just purchased onion seed from peter glazebrook for next year.   Saturday, April 8 View Page a few geranium plants because they remind me of a swiss chalet !!   Friday, April 21 View Page This is grown from a standard kelsae onion seed started in september.canna pro medium.   Friday, April 21 View Page similar seed from previous entry but in kafkar with JI2 and also sptember start nice and straight.   Sunday, April 30 View Page only two onions left in this years experiment this is number one.   Sunday, April 30 View Page number two.   Monday, May 8 View Page the best so far   Monday, May 8 View Page just starting the pumpkin seeds today.   Sunday, May 21 View Page the tallest   Sunday, May 21 View Page slightly shorter, sorry about the sun, we are told that summer started today, exactly one month to the longest day.   Sunday, May 21 View Page these onions came as plants from robinsons mammoth stock, very nice.   Sunday, May 21 View Page these bought from another source are diapointing and the best 0f 25   Monday, May 29 View Page eight days on and no sign of bulbing, all pumpkins showing well.   Sunday, June 4 View Page another 7 days and at last I can see a slight bulbing on the left hand one which is in canna,above I have fixed a single sunblaster which is on 5am- 11pm.   Sunday, June 4 View Page my two pumpkins are 7 days out of the propagator.   Friday, June 9 View Page the smaller of my two onions showing the swelling taking place also there is no further main main shoot in evidence.   Friday, June 9 View Page No 2 onion taller and no swelling visible and another shoot visible.   Friday, June 9 View Page Mini cucumbers doing very nicely we are heavily into salads in the south of England and small cues are ideal for a small family unit of two humans and a cat.   Saturday, June 10 View Page 4 Pumpkins planted out today on the allotment, all very red 2x D.Dill and 2x Ansems. All purchased from the DILL FARM.   Monday, June 19 View Page No 1 onion still producing leaves and I notice slight swelling of the stem,lighting continues until midnight, longest day in two days time.   Friday, July 7 View Page first polination of a M.Dill pumpkin   Friday, July 7 View Page mammoth onions by robinsons farm, lancashire, UK looking good   Friday, July 7 View Page this is Charlie security Department Mousing and Rat removal.   Monday, July 10 View Page the pollination of the diana dill pumpkin has taken.   Saturday, July 22 View Page The Dill pumpkin is now volley ball size.   Saturday, July 22 View Page the second large marrow has taken.   Saturday, July 22 View Page the first marrow has developed a yellow tip (worrying)   Saturday, July 22 View Page the first gold pumpkin showing through.   Thursday, July 27 View Page allotment marrow growing nicely the one with a yellowing end has deceased.   Thursday, July 27 View Page the dill pumpkin looks good.   Thursday, July 27 View Page the southern italian serpente zuchinni it will attain a length of 2 meters +   Monday, July 31 View Page dill pumpkin taping 40lb the weather here is atrocious very wet little sun.   Monday, July 31 View Page at least the marrow is enjoying the rain.   Monday, July 31 View Page and the serpente is 3' long   Monday, August 7 View Page best marrow at the moment.   Thursday, August 10 View Page we are also trying to grow a very large marrow, this specimen is 5days after pollination, promising!   Thursday, August 17 View Page The marrow is now 34 inches long hopefully it will bulk out.The weather is rubbish.   Tuesday, August 22 View Page an inch longer   Monday, September 4 View Page the weather is bad we have not had a summer this year, this pumpkin is limping along 1 or 2 pound a day.   Monday, September 4 View Page this pumpkin however is gaining 10 to 12 pound every day, I have had to demolish the fence to make room for it.   Monday, September 4 View Page marrow bulking out slowly.