The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on May 7th, 2011
After weeks of dry weather the rain came with a vengance last night accompanied by thunder and lightening. It is still raining steadily today but a nice fine rain that is ok to work in. I have put the flower seedlings into their final bed now and they look happy and will bed in nicely if this [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jun 7th, 2010
After all my effort this years trying to raise seedlings for cucumber I have had to give in and buy seedlings from the nursery. I chose two sturdy plants of Femspot an F1 hybrid which I am assured will be successful. I have planted both in the lean to and they tower over my little [...]
Posted in Allotments on Apr 22nd, 2010
I have sown one seed of cucumber Long White received today from Thompson & Morgan. They cost 68p for 28 seeds. I have now tried all thirty of the Jack Frost and not one germinated so I am trying one of these and hoping for more success. Germination should be 7-10 days. Germination update – through [...]
Posted in Allotments on Mar 1st, 2010
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 [...]
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. (Germination update – none [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Allotments on Aug 7th, 2009
We spent a couple of hours at the plots this afternoon. The weather was warm and sunny and the ground was workable so we did a lot of weeding. Still back breaking work but easier than when the ground is dry or heavy with rain. Rob dug up a few rows of potatoes and [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 3rd, 2009
Remember that little cucumber seedling? Well look what I found.
Posted in Allotments on May 15th, 2009
After a day of torrential rain the weather finally cleared up enough for us to pop down to the plots and install the second Cucumber Carmen in the lean to. The first plant is still surviving despite the cold spell we have had. We had a walk round to check on everything and so far [...]
Posted in Allotments on Apr 19th, 2009
We have taken the Cucumber plant, Carmen, and installed it in the lean to. It is surrounded by a fleece to protect it until it gets established. The first of the Tomato plants is also in there. It is a Black Cherry, one of our favourites from last year. After getting the ground to a [...]
