What's in my cold frame this month?

The multi-sown onions successfully made it into the vegetable patch and seem to be fairly happy in their new environment, although I have had to be pretty keen with the watering can recently due to the almost drought like conditions we have been having in the East of England.

Unfortunately I have managed to nearly kill the chillies that I had over wintered – the combination of gloriously sunny days in a closed green house followed by overwatering and then a greenfly infestation has left them looking rather ill. I’m hoping that I have rectified my ways early enough to for them to survive.

The cauliflower and cabbage seedlings came out of the cold frame this week and have been quickly replaced by the runner beans and sweet corn that is ready to be hardened off. Recently I have been so frustrated trying to get seedlings out of module trays without damaging the roots that I decided to try using paper pots this year for my runners and sweet corn. I’ll tell you all about it in a future post.

Having looked at my post from last month, I have realised that I have completely forgotten to sow any spring onions. Well it doesn’t look like I’ll have any ready to put in the potato salad with my first crop of earlies then.

Apart from sowing spring onions, I want to make a wooden frame to attach netting to. Ideally it will have a hinged, or otherwise removable top so that I can get to the brassicas while keeping the pigeons and cabbage whites out. Too much to do and too little time as always. For the time being I have a couple of cheap cloches protecting the cabbages and cauliflower. Which will keep the pigeons away as they’re the major threat at the moment.