Chris and Steve's Weblog – City Chickens

I have had a new mobile from Virgin. It is a Blackberry Curve and is a bit more complicated than my old one so it will take a bit of getting used to.

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Rob has sown the first seeds of the season in the lean to. He has put in a row each of Spring Onion De Barletta, Raddish Pontuil and herb Summer Savory. The Summer Savory was sown by mistake as it was in the lettuce seed box but if I can get a few good plants going all well [...]

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We have just ordered five crowns of Asparagus Gijnlim. I have been reading up about this vegetable which I have eaten for the first time ever and quite enjoyed. Apparently if you can get a bed established it could give you a harvest for up to twenty years. The crowns were £1.50 each and delivery [...]

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My first attempt to germinate some saved sweet pea seeds came to nothing so I bought a cheap packet from Aldi of Spencer Mixed and yesterday I sowed them in small pots, two seeds to a pot. It is quite late to start them so heres hoping for better success this time. Spencer varieties are one [...]

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Rob has been off work this week and though we have had other calls on our time we have still managed to get quite a few hours in on the plot. The fruit cage has been fixed, the fruit bushes in there pruned and the strawberries tidied up ready for the new season. The bean trench has [...]

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An impulse buy from Lidl today. Corms for the Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff. For early flowering, tubers may be started off in boxes in April; use a light soil mixed with compost. Keep slightly moist, cool and free from frost. When the danger of frosts has passed, plant out the sprouted tubers. If used as [...]

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Today was the turn of the Aubergine seeds. I didn’t grow any last year and so as I had the seeds left I thought I would give them a go this year. The problem of old seeds is still there but no point throwing them away without trying to get them going. Aubergines have a long [...]

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This afternoon I have sown four seeds of the Courgette All Green Bush. They are in a 7″ pot with a polythene cover and standing on the computer box for a little bottom heat. (Germination update – these seeds germinated very well with three out of four making a good plant so thumbs up for [...]

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I have sown six seeds of Melon Honeydew bought from The Seed Merchant on ebay. I have sown them in individual 3″ pots and covered with cling film. (Germination update – only one of the seeds germinated so I replaced the failed seeds and am waiting again for results.) “Choose a site that gets full [...]

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I have sown the last one of the Carmen seeds which I bought in 2008. The seeds cost about £1 each and though we had a few cucumbers from the plants that matured there were not as many as the advert promised. It was probably my fault as a new grower but disappointing nevertheless. (Germination [...]

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