The onions are doing nicely although I may have planted then slight to close to each other. Cabbages and cauliflower look like they have survived the late frosts and the radishes are defiantly almost ready to start adding to the salad dish. Spinach, rocket and lettuce have a few more weeks before we can start picking them. But we definaltey having rhubarb crumble for pud tonight.
What a fabulous morning, the first of many more to come come I hope. I have actually managed to plant the potatoes, only a couple of weeks later than usual. I now have room to plant some more seeds,
The onions are doing nicely although I may have planted then slight to close to each other. Cabbages and cauliflower look like they have survived the late frosts and the radishes are defiantly almost ready to start adding to the salad dish. Spinach, rocket and lettuce have a few more weeks before we can start picking them. But we definaltey having rhubarb crumble for pud tonight.
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There is one job on the agenda today and that is to REALLY clean the chickens because yesterday when I went to say Hi, to them, actually it was "chuck chuck chuck", I noticed when I opened the hatch to collect the eggs, a red spider. I'm not sure if it was a red garden spider mite or a chicken red mite, either way, both send shivers down my spine and make me itch all over.
I moved the chickens to the pen at the top of the garden, dismantled their coop and jet washed the lot. That then led me to start digging over the area in the allotment ,that they had been based for the past year, thinking this would be a great, fertile spot to put in the potato's, so then I have to clear the nettles, then I start picking at the ivy in hedge, and on it goes...... Looking back at last years blog, I bought my potato seeds to chit on the the 13th February. This year it's today, the 14th and Valentine's day. So I have bought, King Edward and Desire as main crop potatoes and a new one for me Maris Peer as a second early. I will again plant into containers and bags as this worked really well last year and leaves me space for other crops in the garden. I have bought red and brown onion sets that I will get in hopefully this week as we are on half term, so no excuses. I also had some seeds that I wanted to get, as looking at the dates of some of my older seeds, they may not have performed that well this year. So in the greenhouse today I have sown x24 Alicante tomato plants, they are, it informs me, reliable with an old fashioned flavour. Sweet Friggitello peppers and California Wonder peppers, that are last years seed, so here's hoping they will perform again this year. x6 Cucumber seeds, Telegraph Improved, coriander, spinach, lettuce and some cowslips that I want to grow for the garden bank. These are now all on the windowsill ready for action. I have planted, not as many as last year, but enough extra to sell a few and hopefully cover my costs. My friend Beth has given me this Bergamot, which I have planted in the herb garden, it is just about to flower and the bees will love it. I guess that's why it is also referred to as 'bee balm'. I can't wait till Spring so I can split it and add it to the garden borders. I think it will grow well on the Drock side as it doesn't mind a bit of shade and it doesn't like too dry a soil. Might try also drying some of the leaves to make bergamot tea, although you call it 'Oswego tea' after the Oswego Indians. You could also use the leaves and flowers in salads. I emptied one if my bags of spuds and there it was, my first ever slow-worm. They are not actually worms but a legless lizard. They are my friends as I know they eat slugs. We were careful when we picked him up as they are fragile and can shed their tail as a defence reaction. I will dig carefully from now on when down by the compost bin. So chuffed, this is the first year that I have had a good harvest of blueberries. I didn't think I was going to get any because I dug the shrub up from the old allotment when we moved, there were originally two but the allotment was so overgrown by September that I could only find one. I had planted two as I had read you really need two in close proximity to cross fertailise, surprise surprise.....I have Blueberries. Also it is in a pot just outside the kitchen door so the birds havent discovered it. I will definitely plant a couple more next year. |
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