Super Sunny Saturday
Today was a perfect Spring day… warm sunshine, birds tweeting and much happiness from allotmenteers! Peering beneath the groundsheets we found the Rhubarb has survived and is looking rather healthy… with a bit of luck we’ll be over-run with it – we love it! Perhaps we shouldn’t mention that, it’ll be our summer equivalent of the allotment-owners courgette glut! We had a good old digging and weeding session (as always!), and planted some radishes (Scarlet Globe), lettuce (Tom Thumb), spinach, rocket and salad leaves – from the old seed stash though so whether they come to anything will be a miracle, especially as we forgot the bird scarers again. ...
Read MoreVery short rows!
More weeding and clearing, but dug over a small section (ok, a very small section) enough to plant a very short row of Tom Thumb lettuce and an equally short row of Radish – French Breakfast 3. I know it’s rather late for lettuce, but thought it was worth a go. The radishes should be fine
Read MoreSeeds & Potatoes have arrived!
Our seeds and potatoes arrived… we ordered them through our allotment association from DT Brown (works out so much cheaper if you do this!). So we’ve got: Purple Moldovan Garlic (the bigger bulbs in the pic, the others are supermarket garlic which we’ll experiment with) Radish – Scarlet Globe (plus two half packs left over from last year – Scarlet Globe and French Breakfast) Onion – Red Pearl F1 & Ailsa Craig Prizewinner Parsnip – Countess F1 Courgette – Ambassador F1 Broccoli – Bordeaux F1 Leek – Lyon 2 Prizetaker And our potatoes, both earlies, are ‘Epicure’ and ‘Swift’. Just off to work out what ‘chitting’...
Read MoreRadishes Galore!
We harvested the rest of the radishes – a whole carrier-bag full! When we sowed the seeds for the radishes we used the entire two packets in three short rows… little did we realise that radishes pretty much have a 100% success rate! Note for next time: sow 2 or 3 seeds per inch. Despite their over-inhabited growing conditions there are some super specimens! Our radishes were ‘Scarlet Globe’ and ‘French Breakfast’ – both are very tasty, but our favourite is ‘Scarlet Globe’ because they just look brilliant!
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