Well, Saturday was a washout, but what is a british bank holiday without a bit of torrential rain!!!
Sunday I got the last two strawberry plants in, and my out door cucumbers planted up! Weeded my strawberries, and my onions (which are looking pretty bloody wonderful just by the way) and pottered a lot!.
Got my leeks in last week, and got my french beans in this afternoon too. Dug out a few thistles, and ripped out tonnes of bloody horseraddish! I hate the stuff, really truley with an all consuming passion.
Green house is ready for my tomoatos and my cucumber tomorrow (hopefully) and am hoping to get my runner and boroltti beans planted and caned tomorrow too.
Also plan on planting out my out door tomoatos, and next week the squash, if i remember to collect it off viv on tuesday!!!
Lots left to do, got some swede in last weekend, and some more beetroot. Harvested my first baby raddishs today - the size of little marbles, but far tastier!!!
Raspberries aren't going as well as I hoped. only 8 out of 18 have started to sprout and i am sure at least three are totally dead as there is no green under the bark when scratched. hummmph! Will have to wait a couple of years and replace them with runners from the plants that I have got.
Hoping to get Shaun down to the Lottyment on Monday to help me put up the guttering on my shed and get the waterbutt fitted. the phrase hell freezing over comes to mind....
Sunday 30 May 2010
Sunday 16 May 2010
quick catch up
Done a lot since the last post. The thing that smells like garlic, but isn't garlic or wild garlic IS wild garlic - still stinks and spreads everywhere!!! And the thing i hate but don't have a name for i now have a name for Horse raddish - spreads everywhere, roots snap when you try to dig them up - erghhh.....
.... Willy has dug and rotovated my whole plot so I have got lots to do! So far have sown more carrots (to replavce the ones willy dug over (D'oh).), put up my bean poles for the french beans, sown some beetroot, spring onion, and raddishes, rocket, lollo rosso and a butterhead called salad bowl.
The tomatoes are looking good, my Marmande and Costalucia are looking really good, as are the Roma, the cherry toms are looking a bit leggy but i think that are ready to go into bigger pots.
I've swept out the green house and got rid of all the rammle that has accumulated there, so it is all ready to go for the toms and the gherkins.
The sweetcorn is now about a foot tall and is desperate to go out side, but still need to wait a few more weeks, the Leeks are out and i only have enough for two and a half rows!!! need to sow some more.
Going to buy some more parsnip and get them sown, going to have a go at some chives and some basil too, although i think i'll keep the basil on the kitchen window sill.
Also had a gerneral good tidy up, put all my bricks up by the apple tree, which, incidently, is now in blossom so fingers crossed i might have a couple of apples this year dispite the hacking i gave it earlier in the year.
The strawberries are looking good, lots and lots of flowers so fingers crossed that means lots and lots of strawberries!!! got to but some straw to mulch them and need to get my fleece down too. The rsepberries are not looking that good, on one out of 18 canes has started to sprout. Not sure what that is all about but they are all still green under the bark so i hope they will pick up a bit.
.... Willy has dug and rotovated my whole plot so I have got lots to do! So far have sown more carrots (to replavce the ones willy dug over (D'oh).), put up my bean poles for the french beans, sown some beetroot, spring onion, and raddishes, rocket, lollo rosso and a butterhead called salad bowl.
The tomatoes are looking good, my Marmande and Costalucia are looking really good, as are the Roma, the cherry toms are looking a bit leggy but i think that are ready to go into bigger pots.
I've swept out the green house and got rid of all the rammle that has accumulated there, so it is all ready to go for the toms and the gherkins.
The sweetcorn is now about a foot tall and is desperate to go out side, but still need to wait a few more weeks, the Leeks are out and i only have enough for two and a half rows!!! need to sow some more.
Going to buy some more parsnip and get them sown, going to have a go at some chives and some basil too, although i think i'll keep the basil on the kitchen window sill.
Also had a gerneral good tidy up, put all my bricks up by the apple tree, which, incidently, is now in blossom so fingers crossed i might have a couple of apples this year dispite the hacking i gave it earlier in the year.
The strawberries are looking good, lots and lots of flowers so fingers crossed that means lots and lots of strawberries!!! got to but some straw to mulch them and need to get my fleece down too. The rsepberries are not looking that good, on one out of 18 canes has started to sprout. Not sure what that is all about but they are all still green under the bark so i hope they will pick up a bit.
Monday 3 May 2010
Bank holiday madness
Well, that kind of slogan works for the shops so why not an allotment blog!
This weekedn i have mainl dug out weeds. Docks, Dandilions, speedell, twitch grass, couch grass, thistles, stuff that stinks like garlic but that isn't garlic or wild garlic, stuff that i don't have a name for but HATE, bindweed - i think you get the picture.
I also fed the raspberries, starwberries, and weed killered the 'tough perenial weeds' around the apple tree. God these weeds are never bloody ending.
Oh and i have bought myself a new hand fork - i know how to treat myself!!!
This weekedn i have mainl dug out weeds. Docks, Dandilions, speedell, twitch grass, couch grass, thistles, stuff that stinks like garlic but that isn't garlic or wild garlic, stuff that i don't have a name for but HATE, bindweed - i think you get the picture.
I also fed the raspberries, starwberries, and weed killered the 'tough perenial weeds' around the apple tree. God these weeds are never bloody ending.
Oh and i have bought myself a new hand fork - i know how to treat myself!!!
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