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This is just for little old selfish me,no not really,until coming to Bg never done much gardening,so any help when to plant things how to plant and any tips would be great



Mike

Garden notes:
22nd March: Lovely sunny day. Today we moved three apple trees. Sowed onions, lettuce, peas, broad beans, carrots. radishes.
27th March: Planted 15 new fruit trees on a piece of the field to make an Orchard. Still chilly here at nights and about 10 C in the day, same weather for the coming week. Planted 10 potatoes in greenhouse for an early meal)
15th April: Pruned the grapes over a couple of days and cut the grass/weeds first time, in between.
19th April: Runner beans in pots in green house I like to soak for 24 hrs. first then not much water, as they can rot off in the cold. Polythene on the greenhouse a week, tomatoes in and cucumbers, Planted potatoes outside about 5 Kilos (100 approx.) and have sweetcorn and runner beans in soak ready to plant. Have lettuce, radishes, some peas but think the mice had a few? broad beans, carrots, onion seeds all up. Blossom on the cherry trees, plum, pear and apple this week and no frost forecast so should be a good year for the fruit. PLanted a few more gladioli corms. and other small bulbs. First tulips up, transplanted a few small lettuce into greenhouse may get them a little earlier.
22nd April: Planted sweetcorn 3 to a place, (found about a kilo on a local track so see what happens?) Flowers on the strawbs. Dahlias have been up a week in the greenhouse in pots. But! I left them in on a cold night and a couple lost all leaves, but have recovered. roses are doing great after a prune last month. Pond fish are moving around and have started to feed them. Don't know the name of the fish, as we caught some little ones last year from a local big pond, moved them in and now we have dozens. Frogs have been singing like mad at nights for at least a week in a pond in the village.

Onions in end of march and looking good, overwintered garlic &
lettuce ok but the lettuce is no different in size to others I planted in march. Radish in and doing well. Peas planted last week, plus courgettes, spinach and beetroot. Spinach seedlings just starting to show.

Tomato, pepper and chillis started in house last month and about ready to plant out now - just waiting for the garden to dry out again. Still loads to plant, hoping to start more seeds off over the weekend.

Self seeded marigolds are coming through in the dozens! nasturtium growing nicely, clematis bounding away and looks much better than last year. Peony roses trying to take over the world again!

I joined Gardenjot a while back and haven't got round to putting anything on there yet but should. Have a fair amount of stuff on my personal blog though, about life, gardening and our animals.........some great photo's of our pigs on there too

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Two lovely days, warm and sun is strong ,BUT, 2 groundfrosts -1 (not forecast from Dobrich) have left my Toms. and Pelargoniums in the greenhouse looking awful!hope they recover.

Has anyone got any picture's of their garden they could upload?

This is a few pictures of our garden
We have now planted
Potatoes
Strawberries
Cucumber
Melon
Corn
English Tomatoes
Bulgarian Tomatoes
Peas
Broad Beans
Runner Beans
Sprouts
All sorts of Flowers
And the grapes are doing good

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And i am still hard at it

Brilliant Mick, as long as we don't stop working it will be fine

Thanks for the pictures mickhev you look as though your enjoying every minute looking forward to more pictures of your produce when ready

I thought you were a proud Welsh man. No leeks

You will enjoy the Fruit &
Veg when its ready. Potatoes were a waste of time last year plus they need loads of watering.

Enjoy :Cheers8:

I guess the Grapes are coming out now? or am I to early

I think you maybe a little early Daisy

sarah

ive got peaches on the tree this year. so exciting growing your own stuff and seeing it develop, got lemons too. ::

Don't forget the pics when you harvest it would be good for us newbs to see

I to would love to see some pictures of fruit growing in Bulgaria

Go to my website artshedbg.org, a few of photographs of our garden, and the fruit. in the Seasons in Bulgaria section, Summer hope to take a few more this year to add to sections.