Before and after weeding, thinning, and watering the seedbed.

# 2563# 2562Sowed 1 row of spring onion 'White Lisbon'.

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# 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* Old out-of-date seeds.

# 1140Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/2hrs.
Principle Tasks: Sowing Spring Onions 'Redmate' and 'White Lisbon' into VB02. Sowing Parsnip 'F1 Albion' into the top end of VB03. Spreading stable manure onto the rest.

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Total Allotment Time: 3 & 1/2hrs
Principle Tasks: Sowing a drill of cauliflower 'All The Year Round', broccoli (sprouting calabrese) and sorrel into this year's seebed. Sowing a drill of carrot 'Healthmaster Fl Hybrid' into VB02. Planting out radish 'Purple Plum' (sown 14.03.07), spring onion 'White Lisbon' (sown 20.02.07) and Turnip 'Golden Ball' (sown 27.02.07) into VB03. Harvesting the last of the radish 'Cherry Belle' (sown 20.02.07) from VB03 and planting out the same variety (sown 19.03.07) into VB02. Planting out 5 Spinach 'Medania' (sown 22.02.07) and five of the common type of marigold (sown 03.03.07) into VB04.

# 0671Total Allotment Time: 3hrs.
Principle Tasks: Planting out the aforementioned radishes and covering them with fleece as pictured. Planting out red shallot 'Pikant' sets (20+ (I managed to 'break a few up' as you would garlic bulbs to get a few more than the 20 in the £1.29 packet) into veg bed 01. Adding 6 marigold seedlings and the multi-sown 'White Lisbon' spring onion that I brought up from home to the pre-fab cloche near the rhurbarb.

Notes: Average soil temp of veg bed 01 = +5c