Chris and Steve's Weblog – City Chickens

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 [...]

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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 fine tilth [...]

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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 [...]

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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 bubbling [...]

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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, weather [...]

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