Notes From Home 02/04/09

Pricked out 5 spinach 'Medania' (Sown 20.03.09) into assorted 7.5cm plastic half-pots.
Pricked out 4 leek 'Musselburgh' (Sown 13.03.09) into assorted 7.5cm plastic half-pots.
Sowed 15 dwarf french bean 'Tendergreen' into assorted pots.

Notes From Home 20/03/09

Sowed indoors:

1 small tray spinach 'Medania' (Old seed)
1 small half-pot lettuce 'Buttercrunch' (Old seed)
1 small half-pot lettuce 'Little Gem' (New seed)

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Digging Deep

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How the wildlife pond is getting on. 60cm (The minimum depth I've read to be sure of avoiding freezing solid in winter) seems really deep! Putting in the split-cane edging now seemed a good idea.

# 1147.14Well worth the leaving.. the patch of Field Beans (Vicia faba) along the border L-bed.. Mr bee agrees! :o)

# 1147.13An unexpected harvest. I had decided to resist the temptation to try the rhubarb this second year, but in my endeavors to build the pond I unwittingly broke a leaf or two.. temptation enough!

# 1147.12The seven 'Medania' spinaches from yesterday prior to planting out in veg bed 02. The existing plant is a self-seeded coriander.

# 1147.11Overkill? How they, the 'Ice King' lettuces and 'Parmex' carrots looked after 'protection'.

Total Allotment Time: 4 hrs.
Principle Tasks: Continuing construction of the wildlife pond. Planting out above mentioned seedlings. Hand-weeding.

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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Views From Home 08/04/08 Continued.

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Potato ?, Potato 'Maris Piper'

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A close-up of the sweet peas.

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The 6 'Waverex' peas (Potted on 30/03/08).

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Notes From Home 30/03/08

Potted up 7 spinach 'Medania' seedlings (Sown 10.03.08) into 9cm plastics.
Potted on 6 'Waverex' peas (Sown 10.03.08) into assorted large plastics.

Notes From Home 10/03/08

Sowed:
Achocha. 3 seeds in individual 10cm half plastics.
Carrot 'Parmex'. 15 seeds (doubled) in three 10cm half plastics (5 per).
Lettuce 'Webbs Wonderful'. 8 seeds (doubled) in one 10cm half plastic.
Pea 'Waverex' (Saved Seed). 6 seeds. One per 10cm card tube.
Purple Hibiscus. 6 seeds in one 9cm plastic.
Sharon Fruit (SS). 3 seeds, 1 per 9cm half plastic.
White Hibiscus. 6 seeds in one 9cm plastic.
Spinach 'Medania'. 8 seeds in one 10cm plastic.

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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).