The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Allotments on Apr 25th, 2010
I woke up this morning to the sound of rain. We have had a couple of weeks without a drop and have enjoyed rising temperatures and sunshine which have been welcome after the coldest Winter in a decade. Ideally I would want light rain overnight every night followed by dry sunny days but unfortunately nature [...]
Posted in Allotments on Apr 3rd, 2010
This afternoon I have sown ten modules of the tomato Gardeners Delight. This is a reliable favourite producing tasty smallish fruit that all our family enjoy. Germination should be in seven to ten days and plants should be moved to a 7″ pot when roots are seen at the bottom of the module. They should [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 5th, 2010
Today I have sown one seed each of Tomato Ildi, Lemon Tree, Snow White, Moneymaker, Tigerella and Black Cherry. They are each in a 3″ pot in John Innes seed compost and for the moment are sitting on the computer box. Germination should take seven to ten days if kept at a temperature of 18-21c.
Tip – It is a [...]
Posted in Allotments on May 7th, 2009
I have put 30 seeds of Sweet Corn Incredible in to chit today. The packet cost 19p from Netto and is extra to our planned corn for this season. I couldn’t resist for 19p. It is supposed to be a fast growing sugary enhanced variety producing long sweet cobs. Update on 11th May; corn has [...]
Posted in Allotments on Mar 17th, 2009
It looks like the other five Plymouth Rock eggs aren’t fertile. However the first blue Silkie bantam chick hatched this morning and it is beautiful.
….and here is the buff plymouth rock chick too.
I have potted on the first seven of the Tomato plants now; thirteen more to go.
Posted in Allotments on Feb 28th, 2009
Three more pots of seeds are now sitting on the computer tower awaiting germination. Gardener’s Delight, Ildi and Sungold; all three did well for us last year.
Posted in Allotments on Feb 25th, 2009
I have sown seeds of Tomato Black Cherry again this year. We have done well with these in the past couple of years and hope that the seeds will do us proud again this year. I should have bought fresh seeds I suppose but I thought I might as well give them a go to [...]
Posted in Allotments on Feb 24th, 2009
This morning I sowed the first of my tomato seed. Five seeds to a five inch pot of John Innes Seed Sowing Compost. It is now sitting on the computer tower for a bit of bottom heat.
Ivory coloured cherry tomatoes that are said to be sweet without being sugary. An indeterminate.
Posted in Allotments on Sep 7th, 2008
We made our first visit to the plots today after a gap of two weeks. The dense growth was phenominal and not just on our plots. I think the torrential rain has kept almost everyone away.
The butternut squash plants had taken over the nursery bed and the area around it. Tangled amongst them were the [...]
Posted in Allotments on Jul 14th, 2008
It was a beautiful day today and all the plotholders were out in force. We arrived late at 10.30am determined to complete the second tunnel and get the new brassica plants in before we came home. Things were going great and got even better when we were given two sturdy posts by the brothers to [...]
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