The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on Feb 27th, 2010
I have sown another tray of brassicas today with a mix of new and old seeds. Another row of Cauliflower All The Year Round; Broccoli Autumn Calabrese; Cabbage Derby Day; Cabbage Brigadier; Cabbage Greyhound and Cabbage Offenham ll. They should show in 7-10 days.
Cabbage Brigadier F1 Hybrid (Autumn/Winter). Ideal to grow a quality giant cabbage, [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 27th, 2010
Four seeds of Cucumber Jack Frost have gone into a 3″ pot of seed compost today and put to join yesterdays hopefuls. The big difference if that these are newly bought seeds from The Seed Merchant on ebay. They were 99p but there were thirty healthy looking seeds in the packet.
A beautiful crisp white cucumber [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 26th, 2010
I have sown four each of Cucumber Marketmore and Lemon. They are previous years seeds so it will be interesting to see what results I get with germination. I have put the pots into a polythene bag and stood them on the computer box for a little heat.
Marketmore is a basic cucumber like we can [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 25th, 2010
I have never grown these peas before but have read such good reports about them I decided to give them a go. They are a second early so I shall put them in during March. They should be ready to harvest in 13-14 weeks.
(Pod length is about 4″ with 9-11 peas in a pod. Pea Hurst [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 20th, 2010
Having decided not to spend too much this year and to use both saved seeds and seeds purchased in previous seasons I have already noticed that the new seed does indeed perform better than old in most things, not just with parsnips, which I already knew about. I sowed two varieties of Brussells Sprouts and [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 18th, 2010
Today I bought an apple tree from Aldi. It is an Elstar, an offspring of the Golden Delicious. I bought this cultivar before and it died. However the original cost £25.99 and this one only cost £3.99 so there is not so much to risk.
(Elstar is a crunchy apple. The flesh is lemon-white. In most Golden [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 16th, 2010
On Sunday we at last had some time to call our own and went to visit the plots at about ten o clock. We were expecting a short visit halted by sleet after reading the weather forecast. However, it turned out to be a four hour clean up with sunshine.
We have decided to give up [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 15th, 2010
Four out of six of the Tomato seedlings are through so I have taken the polythene cover off and stood the pots on the window ledge. Quite a few of the leeks are showing already and the brassica tray has about seven tiny green shoots. Looks like the season starts here.
The Sweetpeas haven’t shown any signs [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 15th, 2010
I was testing the camera in the garden yesterday so here are a few of my hens and ducks.
This is one of my White Pekins showing off her lovely tail feathers.
Star one of our white Silkie bantams.
Bums up. Blue and Sadie, our two Orpington bantams.
Flower and Rosie, two of our Call Ducks.
Posted in Allotments on Feb 14th, 2010
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