# 1590Total Allotment Time: 5mins.
Principle Tasks: Dropping off green kitchen waste for composting and collecting up last 12 'Sturon' onions (strung at home).

Breaking Buds 2009!

# 1405A week or so into the new season for the whitebeam.

# 1404The first of the potatoes (Variety 'Maris Bard') are up in veg bed 3. Seen here being mulched.

# 1403Down the other end of the bed the last go in. Another new try, 'Romano' (Main crop).

# 1402Also the last to go in. Onion 'Sturon' in vb02

Total Allotment Time: 3hrs.
Principle Tasks: Planting out the last of the potatoes and onions. Mulching the gate end of vb03.

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One Down?

# 1147.10I've a bad feeling that I've lost one of the asparagus (or should that be asparagi?) Only one of the two crowns nearest the globe artichoke at the top of the picture has so far put up a spear. Are they incompatible, or is it only that the artichoke is taking up more moisture from the soil?

# 1147.09The 'Epicure' potatoes are all looking good though. My finger's are crossed that frosty mornings are behind us.

# 1147.08How the 'slope end' of the wildlife pond appears now I've decided to go for it (Notice the new label below).

# 1147.07The seedlings I brought up from home today. Clockwise from top left: 7 Spinach 'Medania', 3 Carrot 'Parmex', and 5 Lettuce 'Ice King'.

# 1147.06The 'Sturon' onions in veg bed 01 seem to be doing okay.

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Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/2hrs.
Principle Tasks: Planting 'Sturon' onion sets into vb01. Making a start on the hibernaculum.

Notes From Home 09/04/08

Potted up 11 tomato 'Sweet Million' (Sown 14.03.08) into nine 10cm, and two 11cm plastics.
Potted up 2 physalis (Unknown variety, sown 11.03.08) into one 8cm, and one 6cm plastic.
Brought Onion 'Sturon', 'Red Baron' & 'Stur BC 20'. Fifty (approx) sets each.