Total Allotment Time: 3hrs.Principle Tasks: Avoiding the mud. Chopping up (and discreetly disposing of over the railway line fence) the last of the prunings from the Whitebeam. Planting out the thyme into the near end (as in the above panorama) of the perimeter L-bed. Forking the many puddles.
Notes: Average soil temp of veg bed 1 = +7C.
Sowed (at home) 8 seeds of Lettuce 'Buttercrunch' into a single 7.5cm pot.
4 comments:
Hi Tim ,
head up my friend (Big hug)
Your Hyacinth looks great - sche just keep on going :o)
Maybe the wind was to cold for the Elfin Herb - Good luck with the three new herbs , they looks healty .
Best Regards Always,
Rita :o)
Hi Guys! Apologies for not getting to reply yesterday to your last comments - I just can't seem always to keep on top of that clock in the bottom right :o)
> Good luck with the three new herbs
Thanks Rita. Hopefully they'll fare better than the Elfin! :o)
> it just makes you more determined.
Cheers Jimmy. Yes, I'm hoping that'll be the case. It's been painful watching the Elfin's slow demise, but as most of my other plantings seem to be holding up, I'm taking heart in them.
> I have had another thought, height!
I'll leave out the trifids :o) but I'm definately hoping to grow some runners this year. Rasberries I'm undecided over, due only to their permanent shade-casting (I feel it would be unfair on my neighbours to grow them along our shared fence line). Some of the herbs and flowers I've already planted can get pretty tall - the Bear's Breeches and the Angelica to name two, and I've got some Valarian seeds I wish to sow in a month or so's time (these can all approach 2m in height if they enjoy life).
tbc..
> Are the brassicas planted yet?
No, but I have just started to get sowing at home (last week I unearthed an old Geoff Hamilton book that I had forgotton about and read that I could of started sowing salad seeds last month to plant out under cloches - better late than never!) :o)
So far I've sown:
Radish 'Cherry Belle' 5 seeds, Spring Onion 'White Lisbon' 5 seeds, Carrot 'Parmex' 5 seeds, Spinach 'Medania' 7 seeds, American Land Cress 7 seeds (something I've always wanted to grow as I love Watercress, and it's meant to taste the same).
Doing this rather inevitably meant that I got carried away, and I've also started off:
Broad Bean 'Masterpiece Green Longpod' 6 seeds, Cape Gooseberry 'Little Lantern' ? seeds, Sunflower 'Italian White' 6 seeds,
Sweet Pea 'Old Fashioned Mixed' 11 seeds and Cucumber 'Cucino' 1 seed :o)
> Do you have a Robin?
Yes, there is one around the plot that I've seen more than once. I've not put out anywhere near as much seed this year for the birds, mainly due to the fact that it's been so mild, and I read somewhere that it's believed that Avian Flu is spread between wild birds at feeder stations - have you heard anything about this?
That chrysalid I have in a jar on my kitchen windowsill is still alive! I was worried about it the other day as I thought the bit that was poking above the soil (it managed to get itself to the surface) was looking dodgy. I carefully got it out and it wriggled in my hand! Hopefully we'll get to see what it is after all! :o)
Best Regards Both!
Tim :o)x
PS. Sadly we don't have a clubhouse at the site, but I have noticed the odd curtain suspiciously drawn on shed windows :o)
Hi Jimmy. Apologies, I meant to reply earlier tonight, but forgot (due to over-indulgence again in drink, if I'm honest) so this comes very late..
I'll hope to respond in full tomorrow, but meantime I've found the date of when I found the chysalid. It was on Oct 7th last. Look up my posts for October 2006 under 'Archives' to find it.
Cheers again for following the blog!
Tim :o)x
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