Sun was shining so off to the plot I went. Started digging over the second long bed. This had been covered in plastic so it was dry enough to dig. The soil was pretty compacted though and I managed about 1/4 before my back had had enough.
Dug up last gooseberry bush (I thought) but found the stumps of one that I had inadvertently strimmed. On closer inspection I saw that it had started to sprout again so dug that one up also. Potted up both of them & they are now in the greenhouse. I now have 6 gooseberry bushes, 1 redcurrant & 1 blackcurrant. I also sowed some carrot (Paris Market) into a tray for hopefully early carrots.
Once I had finished that I pricked out the lettuce (little gem) into modules, and sowed some more into a tray.
The first batch of broad beans I sowed into loo rolls are starting to germinate.
All the seedlings in my greenhouse looking perky!
Coffee break..... it's a dogs life!
I have not had flowers on the plot before, but I have decided to put in a flower bed at the front, The edges are in & I have laid cardboard on the base. I will add topsoil & council compost when I have collected it.
View down the plot
I met some more new people at the site today, one of whom (Lois) lives just round the corner to me - I realised that I had only just picked up some 'freecycle' root trainers from her the day before.
4 comments:
I potted up a gooseberry cutting today. Had never done it before, so was over the moon. The simple things eh?
It was a beautiful day, good to see someone else was lucky enough to be on the plot too.
Jono.
P.S. Your dog is lovely!
You look like you are busying up there :) I really need to get a cold frame or something for my seedlings :S
Hugely impressed with your brill day at the plot - hope the reasonable weather holds for me to have a go planting red onion sets at the Hill tomorrow (they don't do well for me overwinter - and I luuuuurve red onions!)
Also note your v tidy & well organised greenhouse - no mouldy squash for you!
And although I am only jealous of your organisation (sweet peas, onion, broadies, leek etc) are you really going to eat 40 lettuces ready the same time...... ;-)
Mmmm now you come to think of it Hazel, I might have overdone it on the lettuce front, but we do eat loads - even my children will eat lettuce just as a snack, so hopefully they won't go to waste!
Jono, thanks for your comments about my dog - He's surprising well behaved on the plot, apart when he's stealing people's gnomes!
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