Gallery

Last Update 17.01.2009

This Gallery has been be updated every 2 weeks from 10th April 2007 to provide progress pictures and slideshow pictures of my vegetable seedlings in my 3 back garden plots.

Today I will mostly growing in February 2009:

Archived Slideshows 2007 -2008

Plot 1 – Roots and Salads.

Plot 2 – Brassicas.

Plot 3 – Beans and Peas.

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Individual Vegetable Slideshows

Please click the links below to see the progress of each vegetable from seed to harvest.

  • Broad Beans (The Sutton)
  • Butternut Squash (Hawk F1)
  • Cabbage (Spring – spring hero)
  • Cabbage (Summer – Golden Acre 3 primo)
  • Cabbage (Summer – Greyhound)
  • Cabbage (Winter – Tundra F1)
  • Cabbage – (Autumn – Resolution Savoy)
  • Carrots (Amsterdam Forcing – Spring sowing)
  • Carrots (Resistafly and James Scarlet Intermediate – Summer sowing)
  • Carrots (Autumn King – Autumn sowing)
  • Chard (Bright Lights)
  • Chicory (Pain de sucre)
  • Cucumber (Marketmore)
  • Kale (Redbor)
  • Leek (Mini – Armour)
  • Lettuce (Balmoral – ballhead)
  • Lettuce (TinTin -Little Gem)
  • Mange Tout (Dwarf Sweetgreen) .
  • Pak Choi (Riko F1)
  • Peas (Overwinter – Douce Provence)
  • Parsnip (Countess F1)
  • Perpetual Spinach (Leaf Beat)
  • Potatoes in pots (Charlotte, Desiree, Lady Christl and Picasso)
  • Potatoes in Plot (Desiree)
  • Radish (French Breakfast – Spring Sowing)
  • Radish( French Breakfast – Summer Sowing)
  • Spring Onions (Paris silverskin and Red blood holland)
  • Red Tomatoes
  • Yellow Bell Tomatoes

    • My Mini Greenhouse

    • Custom made and constructed by: My boyfriend.
    • Currently being re-painted (still has masking tape on it) to weatherproof the wood by: Me
    • Location: On our deck by back of the house.
    • Sun Position: Sunshine all day.
    • Shelter: Sheltered on one side by 6ft fence.

    My Mini greenhouse

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    5 Comments

    • 1. Jenny  |  May 2, 2007 at 8:52 pm

      hi tracey, im very pleased to see how well your vegetable patch is coming along i think i might go to wilkinsons and get myself a red current bush, i will keep looking just to see how your veggies are getting on.

    • 2. Sue Birchenough  |  May 8, 2007 at 1:37 pm

      Hi Tracey,
      I bought two redcurrant bushes and two gooseberry bushes from Wilkie the year before last. You just wouldn’t believe the amount of currants I got, I even sold some there were that many. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Raspberries which failed altogether. Can’t win all the time I suppose.
      Keep on growing.
      Sue

    • 3. Rolf(li) Zuellig  |  April 13, 2008 at 3:16 am

      Hi Tracey, this is the very first time I ever bothered commenting on somebody’s website! (hurray, you’re the first one!!!)
      Anyways, I just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoy your habitat on the web, and the reason I write this is, because I keep coming back to your site; Often I Google (usually for images), for example today, “growing potatoes in pots”, and what catches my eye first (???) – a section of YOUR website!
      This has now happend so many times, that I just HAVE TO let you know how much I enjoy your pages.
      I am a 43 year old Swiss bloke who is (has been living for 20-odd years) in the land down-under.
      I have a reasonably large block of land (25×60meters or so), and since I was a little boy in Switzerland, I always loved growing tihings, but only lately have I seriousely started growing vegatables (and things).
      Anyway – so far the very best item I’m growing seems to be my cucumbers (4 pots – 5 plants, so far already 18 little cucumbers, plus 50 – 70 beautiful flowers.)
      I also did fairly well with basil, mint and chives, but anything else(apart from radishes, of course, doesn’t seem to work for me, and I think the problem is that I “look after my babies too well”, i.e. I water them too often!?.
      Well, thanks for listening to me, and I wish that your green thumb keeps growing to the max. – I really, really love learning from your excellent site.
      Cheers, Rolf (Broken Hill, NSW, Australia)

    • 4. mostlyiwillbegrowing  |  May 5, 2008 at 11:33 am

      Hi Rolf,
      I feel honored that you chose my website to comment on first, thanks for that. I was wondering who was searching for growing potatoes in pots but it is the time of year for that type of growing.

      The best of luck with your cucumbers, this year is my first time growing them and I have 13 small (marketmore).

      Radishes just seem to keep themselves to themselves, a bit of watering and they still seem to grow. Sometimes I even forget to pull them up as they are usually so quick to grow.

      Thanks again for your comments.
      Tracey

    • 5. ariel  |  February 16, 2009 at 11:18 pm

      hi! what a great site! i particularly like your greenhouse – inspiring me to build something rather than order something expensive that i can’t afford. :) thanks for putting your progress out there and inspiring me (and others!)!