Showing posts with label Shallot 'Pikant'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shallot 'Pikant'. Show all posts

Thursday, April 05, 2007

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00702Total Allotment Time: 2 & 3/4hrs.
Principle Tasks: Planting out the seven 'Buttercrunch' lettuces that I sowed on the 21st of Feb, and have had growing on under bottletop cloches, into veg bed 2. Inter-sowed three drills of parsnip 'Tender and True' between them. Planted out the 10 pre-chitted potato 'Colleen' potatoes. Erecting 'seed bed protector' cloche above today's veg sowings and plantings. Planting out the rescued acanthus into the border L-bed.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

# 0691Total Allotment Time: 1 & 3/4 hrs.
Principle Tasks: Tickling over the rain-capped soil around the recently planted shallot sets. Leveling of the ground around the pathways with the hope of putting down more chipped-bark on them tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

# 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