Potatoes Are In
I spent a few hours down on the plot this Saturday morning and planted all my potatoes out. I’m growing Estima again (see last years plant out) and I’m also growing Maris Piper this year too.
Frank and Dave were next door planting their’s out and they were using a pogo-stick type thingy to simply make the holes to plonk the seed potato in. If my plot didn’t need a good dig over and weed I would have done it that way myself. As it was I had a jolly good time with my best spade digging away all morning - I’m hoping to be able to stand up straight again soon!
Gone To Seed
Didn’t manage to grow any of these last year so it’ll be interesting to see what happens with:
Peppers (capsicums):
Courgettes (like these with pasta!):
Sweet corn:
All currently sitting nicely in some seed trays (with lids) that we got from Asda the other week.
Fruit Trees
Well it would appear that I haven’t managed to kill off the fruit trees as they are all producing buds.
Here’s the apple tree that Fil kindly gave me last autumn:
The cherry tree has loads of buds:
Plum tree has buds too:
Break-in At The Shed
Some idiot(s) decided to break-in to mine and other plot holders sheds sometime yesterday evening. In my case they burst the hasp and staple - the latch bit that the padlock goes on - so I’ve now got a small repair job to do.
About 10 sheds were done in total and other people lost some useful bits and bobs I gather. As I don’t store anything of value (to anyone else) in my shed nothing was taken this time. I’ll have a search for a bit of wood for the repair and maybe find a stronger way of fixing the lock.
Bit a bit of weeding done this afternoon where my spuds are going in - soon!
Onions Are In
Planted out this seasons onion sets the other day. I’m using Sturon again - they seemed fine last year. Decided to mark out the lines (bar one) with string …seemed to make sense when I planted them, but thinking about it today it’s not really needed.
Spring is certainly here now and it was warm enough for me to take my beenie hat off:
Need to get cracking now with other stuff and more weeding!
A Quick Bit Of Weeding
Short on time this week so it was nice to sneak about 45 minutes weeding in this afternoon - the bed that contains my strawberry plants looks a bit smarter as a result.
Nice bit of sunshine at 5pm was very welcome but according to the just-seen weather forecast it’s going to be wet and windy again.
Said hello to Fil as I cycled past on my way home.
Shed Office
Shed Office (as it’s called) has had some enhancements and even a bit of money spent on it.
First off, I’ve added a gutter, borrowed from a local skip. I did have to buy a corner joint from B&Q though.
And to make sure the bits and bobs inside are a bit more secure I splashed out on a 3 pack of padlocks:
Need to make it a bit more homely now - bit of a worktop and a shelf or two. I barrowed my old office chair down last week so there’s something to sit on at least.
Just seen the weather forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend - hmm, nice!
Plum Tree
Planted our new victoria plum tree yesterday. As it’s blowing a gale (again!) today, I hope it’s still standing. Doesn’t look much does it?
More Weeding
I’m happy enough with what I call the back square - I’ve dug loads of couch grass and ground elder out!
I’ll be plonking my onion sets in very soon. I’ve ordered more this year - last years crop lasted until about November I think. We seem to get through loads of onions at home so a bigger harvest this year can’t do any harm!
Question On Garlic
My garlic seems to be growing but the tips of the leaves are brown. As there’s still sometime to go before it’s ready to be harvested (I planted it in November I think it was) is is right that the leaves are already going brown?
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Seed Shopping
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