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# 1778# 1777First harvest of the year! Self-sown American land-cress.

# 1762Total Allotment Time: 4 & 1/2 hrs.
Principle Tasks: Sowing 1 row each of radish 'Purple Plum'*, 'Cherry Belle'* and 'French Breakfast'. Sowing three rows of spinach 'Samish F1' and 1 row of spring onion 'White Lisbon'*. Transplanting 14 self-sown seedlings of American land cress from veg bed 02 into vb03. Continuing digging in the clover in vb01. Finishing mulching the gooseberries with Tunstall's Organic Soil Improver (4 x 60l for £4.50 each).

* Old out-of-date seeds.

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A Late Autumn Harvest

# 1311# 1310My first three 'trys' of the fruit of the Physalis peruviana that I grew from seed saved from a shop-brought example. Pretty good I thought (Note the 'munched' one) :)

# 1309About time I also thought about harvesting the first of this year's 'Monarch' Celeriac..

# 1308not so impressive! :) :)

# 1307The ones I am looking forward to.. this year's Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)

# 1306A far better result.. the 'good roots' were almost 2cm in diameter!

# 1305Altogether.. today's 'take homes'. Two of the Celeriac, one of the 'unknown' leeks, and a bunch of the American Land Cress. I've so-far only enjoyed eating the Land Cress and the Leek..

# 1304Total Allotment Time: 2 hrs.

Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/2hrs.
Principle Tasks: Weeding and mulching the potatoes in VB01. Transplanting american landcress seedlings into VB02. Beginning tidying up border L-bed. Removing the last of the field beans from VB01 (top growth only). Chasing butterflies :)

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# 0828Total Allotment Time: 2 & 1/2hrs.
Principle Tasks: Planting out 50 'Redmate' onion sets (about time too, eh?!) into VB04. Planting out 5 'American Land Cress' (sown ?) into the same bed (and I could also add the same comment! :o) ). Planted out three coriander plants (sown ?) into VB01 (between the spuds). Planted out a 'Tondo' marrow (sown ?) into VB04 (between the sadly wind-blown globe artichokes).

Total Allotment Time: 2hrs.
Principle Task: Applying two 100l bags of B&Q Organic Soil Improver as a mulch onto the border L-bed and VB04. Planting out 3 American land cress (sown 22.02.07) into VB04. Planting out 3 coriander (sown 13.03.07) into VB01. Planting out a 'Tondo' marrow (sown 09.03.07?) into VB04.

# 0765Total Allotment Time: 2 & 3/4hrs.
Principle Tasks: Applying mulch and chipped bark as described above.
Additional Notes: Took up to plot 9 cape gooseberry 'Little Lantern', 1 sunflower 'Italian White' (sown 09.03.07), 5 american land cress (sown 22.02.07), 6 lettuce 'Buttercrunch' (sown 19.03.07), 3 broad bean 'Materpiece Green Longpod' (sown 07.04.07) and 2 coriander (sown 13.03.07).

Notes From Home 21/04/07

Potted up 6 American Land Cress (sown 22.02.07) into 10cm pots (one clay).
Potted up 2 tomato 'Darby Striped' (sown 03.03.07) into 13cm pots (one clay).
Potted up 1 tomato 'Gardener's Delight' (sown 02.03.07) into a 13cm clay pot.
Potted up 3 broad bean 'Masterpiece Green Longpod' (sown 07.04.07) into two 19cm and one 13cm plastic pots.

# 0649Total Allotment Time: 2 & 1/2hrs.
Principle Tasks: Preparing seed bed at top end (ie, gate end) of fruit/veg bed 04. Making a temporary home for the lettuce and radish. Harvesting broccoli.

Notes: Soil temp of top end of fruit/veg bed 4 = +8c.

Notes From Home 3/9/07
Pricked out 7 seeds of American Land Cress (sown 22.02.07) into modules.
Pricked out 24 seedlings of Cape Gooseberry 'Little Lantern.' (sown 19.02.07) into modules.

Notes From Home 2/22/07

Sowed 7 seeds of Spinach 'Medania' into one 7.5cm pot.
7 seeds of American Land Cress into one 7.5cm pot.