Thursday, June 29, 2006
Perpetual spinach and Kohl Rabi
Planted Perpetual spinach and Kohl Rabi yesterday. Purple sprouting and sprouts are looking OK and raspberries will soon be ready.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Lots growing and first crop (just!)
It's been a warm sunny June so far, and things are growing well, including the weeds. I've just planted most of the rest of the sprouts and purple sprouting. The first batch I put in seem to have settled in well. As it's warm we've been doing lots of watering.
Roger has tried an interesting way of growing carrots - he dug a trench, lined it with newspaper, filled it with compost, and then transplanted some carrots from his greenhouse. Idea I think is to keep the weeds away - our last lot got drowned by weeds. No idea if the carrots will take, or whether they will manage to break through the paper though.
We've also got three rows of runner beans going now:
Finally we had our first, tiny crop - strawberrys! The plot was covered with them (in amongst the grass) when we took it over - we had to dig most of them up, but put some in a big tub, and left a few around the edge. Look....!
Roger has tried an interesting way of growing carrots - he dug a trench, lined it with newspaper, filled it with compost, and then transplanted some carrots from his greenhouse. Idea I think is to keep the weeds away - our last lot got drowned by weeds. No idea if the carrots will take, or whether they will manage to break through the paper though.
We've also got three rows of runner beans going now:
Finally we had our first, tiny crop - strawberrys! The plot was covered with them (in amongst the grass) when we took it over - we had to dig most of them up, but put some in a big tub, and left a few around the edge. Look....!
Saturday, June 10, 2006
June Update
It's been really sunny for the last week or so, we've had to do a lot a watering, and Roger has done loads of weeding...
I'll add some photos shortly, but things are growing really well. The potatos with purple flowers (Maris Pipers?) are looking great, and the white flowered ones (maybe these are the Maris Pipers...) aren't far behind.
Roger's courgette plants are now have little courgettes growing, and the pumpkin plants are also looking good.
I've added a few purple sprouting and brussels sprouts - not sure if they will survive the heat though, but I've got some more in the green house. Also we didn't have any lime, which we are told we need to keep some sort of brassica killing thing away (no idea what it is).
The plot is almost full now, thought we've got a nice empty row where the carrots failed (Roger has dug a trench there now - can't remember what for, and we've room for a lot more pea plants on the pea row (only about 5 grew...).
I'll add some photos shortly, but things are growing really well. The potatos with purple flowers (Maris Pipers?) are looking great, and the white flowered ones (maybe these are the Maris Pipers...) aren't far behind.
Roger's courgette plants are now have little courgettes growing, and the pumpkin plants are also looking good.
I've added a few purple sprouting and brussels sprouts - not sure if they will survive the heat though, but I've got some more in the green house. Also we didn't have any lime, which we are told we need to keep some sort of brassica killing thing away (no idea what it is).
The plot is almost full now, thought we've got a nice empty row where the carrots failed (Roger has dug a trench there now - can't remember what for, and we've room for a lot more pea plants on the pea row (only about 5 grew...).
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