Planting out

Arrived at the plot after I had taken a trailer load of rubbish to the tip and collected a load of council compost. Spotted Mike who let me borrow his rotorvator to break down the soil in the legume, root & onion beds. I had put a covering of council compost on each & rotorvated this in. Once I had done this I planted out the broad beans I sowed in loo rolls & poundland shallots.

Broad beans

Shallots

In the greenhouse the radishes have sprouted.

All the onions (Stutgarter Giant).....

And shallots have started to sprout also. I will harden these of over the next few days & then plant them out.

I still have loads to do including more digging (groan!), seed sowing and planting out of seedlings & so it goes on......

Seedlings galore!

Nearly all the seedlings that I sowed recently have come up...

The broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia) have all germinated and are ready to go out.

These are the beetroot seedlings that I sowed as Monty Don suggested, in clusters in modules.

Cosmos seedlings.

Tomato seedlings

And finally - poundland shallots - going great guns - so far well worth the pound that I paid for them.

I am hardening off the shallots & broad beans at the moment so that they will be OK when I plant them out.