Perhaps a lot of people don't appreciate just what work goes into producing the flowers for our hanging baskets.

Jeannettes been sowing Lobelia today and as you can see below because the seeds are so tiny a magnifying glass is of great help!

But fingers crossed and with a lot of TLC over the next 5 months or so they'll end up in our baskets looking like this

We've updated our Website gallery for The Farm Garden with images from literally day 1 you can have a look at http://www.thefarmgarden.co.uk/gallery.htm

Sowing Sowing Sowing

Well the snow is finally melting thank goodness but we've taken the opportunity of time indoors to put our sowing schedule together

 This is January and February - you can also view this at www.thefarmgarden.co.uk/jan&feb.jpg

 

and this is the whole year again you can view this at www.thefarmgarden.co.uk/wholeyear.jpg

 

 

We've also put a Polytunnel sowing schedule together for those of you who have or might be contemplating getting one

This is in Excel format at www.thefarmgarden.co.uk/sowingschedpt.xls

or as a PDF document at www.thefarmgarden.co.uk/sowingschedpt.pdf

 

Our latest polytunnel has just been delivered from First Tunnels who incidentally have 15% off Polytunnels until 4th February 2013. We've always found them excellent for customer service and they have a series of videos showing construction and lots more so have a look at their website. If you need any additional tips from us drop us a line at 

The Farm Garden and we'll try and help !!

 

Anyway long may the melt continue and we can get back outside.....loads to do as usual

 

We've also updated the Gallery page on our website showing what we've done literally from day 1  The Farm Garden Gallery

 

 

Enough Snow !!!

 

The 2 smaller polytunnels are more semicircular so a lot of the snow comes off by gravity

 

The larger one however is much flatter on top so a long brush is handy!!

We've beefed up the larger one inside with wooden uprights and additional ridge bars on each side so fingers crossed!!

Welcome to our new Blog !!

Time permitting we are going to try and keep a record at least once a week of what we've been up to at The Farm Garden so please come back soon.

At the moment we're spending our daylight hours clearing snow off our polytunnels and keeping our fingers crossed they'll survive through the nights !!

Peter & Jeannette