Thursday 24 April 2014

Nearly up to date

Not much to see here, but for once in my life I'm almost up to date with the plot. All is dug (with manure and compost, or lime, or blood, fish and bone meal). I have put in my onion sets and some of the onions that I have grown from seed. Also in this plot is a row of garlic, and rows of beetroot and carrot seeds
This is my new cold frame, with lettuce, beetroot and carrots growing strongly from seed, and a row of spring onion seeds. (The carrots are in bottomless modules, two carrots to each space, so I don't have to thin them.)
I have also planted potatoes (the earlies (Kestrel) are ridged up and the leaves are coming through, but the maincrops (Cara) have still to show) and parsnip seed. On other plots I have planted out some Brussels sprouts and a few early cabbage, and there are some red cabbages coming along nicely from seed. My bean seeds (both runner and French, and both saved from last year) are in pots in the greenhouse and have just come through, and I have today planted sweetcorn, which are now in the propagator as they like some heat to germinate, and courgette seeds. Although I try to maintain a fairly strict 4-plot rotation, the sweetcorn will have to go in where they were last year, as there is insufficient room in the potato plot.
I have also planted some Swiss chard seed, to replace the plants that have stood over the winter, from which I am picking plenty of leaves. They will of course bolt soon.

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