The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on Jun 18th, 2010
Once again I have brought home a large bowl of strawberries and a couple of massive butterhead lettuces. I also managed to get enough potatoes Sharps Express for a meal tonight. The potatoes have been slow to grow as we had a cold start to the season followed by a very long dry period. The [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jun 7th, 2010
We had a massive thunder storm yesterday with torrential rain and so the plot got a really good soaking. I went down this morning for a couple of hours and put in some plants and did a bit of weeding and tying up. Everything is growing well now and we have brought home quite a [...]
Posted in Allotments on Mar 31st, 2010
Rob has popped to the plot to do a few jobs and has planted ten butterhead lettuce in the brassica tunnel. He will be working on the new brassica cage, getting it ready for planting and covering the whole thing with green netting to keep the birds off.
Posted in Allotments on May 29th, 2009
Yesterday was a lovely warm day but as Rob had to work a double shift he wasn’t home until 7.45pm. We went straight down to the plots when he got back and spent a nice hour watering the plants that are under cover and the seedlings then planting more pumpkins, five Cauliflower Moby Dick, five Cabbage [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Allotments on Apr 9th, 2009
Rob has sown a row of mixed salad leaf directly into a small bed down on plot 8 and today I have sown 24 seeds of a European Butterhead lettuce in modules at home. I haven’t had much luck starting lettuce this way before but have tried a cheap propagator tray with a plastic lid [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jun 19th, 2008
This afternoon we planted the brussell sprouts, Brilliant, now we need a bit of gentle rain to water them in. Rob fixed up the cage we built for them last year and it looks fit to face the winter now. We emptied out one of the potato bags, Rocket I think, and half of them are [...]
Posted in Allotments on Apr 10th, 2008
I put twelve of these seeds in a 7″ pot and into a polythene bag to germinate. I have also sown a few more lettuce seeds. Little Gem, Lollo Rosso and Raddichio. The first sowing of peas I put in at home need planting out now so we intend to do that this afternoon, [...]
