Yesterday I bought some garlic and onion sets from the allotment shop. I bought 1 blub of Solent Wight garlic (£1.60), 1 bulb of Picardy garlic (£1.60) and 1 bulb of Elephant Garlic (70p), and also 150g of Radar overwintering onions (90p), so today we put in 4 rows of onions, 2 rows of Solent Wight and 2 rows of Picardy garlic. We sowed the Elephant garlic in the corner of the onion bed next to the row of Pak Choi.
Daddy tried to get some scaffolding poles into the ground for the raspberries for support but the ground was too hard, so he will try again with Uncle Nige next weekend when I am on my Pamper day at Aries. They are hoping to make a compost heap as well for us next weekend :-)
Daddy & Henry dug all the remaining potatoes out of the potato bed and yesterday we removed all the cauliflowers as they had started to bolt. We had cauliflower bhaji last night, spicy cauliflower soup today, and still have plenty over.
We also removed the runner beans today as the only beans left on had gone too big and stringy. Some of the garlic bulbs that were left over went into Henry's plot as well.
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
End of August 2009
Well, the weather hasn't been great in the last couple of weeks. We were pleased to find the tomatoes are now ripening but disappointed that the ones Uncle Carl brought back from Italy have no taste really so we have used them to make tomato soup this weekend. The crystal lemon cucumber plant has been in overdrive and we have lots of cucumbers which we have been handing round to people !!!
Henry and I planted a row of Pak Choi outside where the Corona Del Oro yellow beans were and also a tray in the greenhouse. We planted a couple of trays of lettuce as well but as of now it appears the slugs have found them as nothing is through !!! May try that again this week. The melons seem to be doing well, and we have alot of chillies turning red so that's good, as we seem to be inundated with purple chillies !
We picked a few carrots (Resistafly) and half of these were OK, which is good, but there were not many of them and Henry had them for his tea ! We tried to see if a corn on the cob was ready as the tassles had turned brown but it wasn't ready for eating yet - the corns were still white.
We are hoping the allotment shop is open this weekend as looking at the diary from last year - it was about now we bought the garlic, over-wintering onions and so we want to buy those and would like to try some over-wintering Spring Onions this year too. Looking forward to finding out what they have for sale !
Henry and I planted a row of Pak Choi outside where the Corona Del Oro yellow beans were and also a tray in the greenhouse. We planted a couple of trays of lettuce as well but as of now it appears the slugs have found them as nothing is through !!! May try that again this week. The melons seem to be doing well, and we have alot of chillies turning red so that's good, as we seem to be inundated with purple chillies !
We picked a few carrots (Resistafly) and half of these were OK, which is good, but there were not many of them and Henry had them for his tea ! We tried to see if a corn on the cob was ready as the tassles had turned brown but it wasn't ready for eating yet - the corns were still white.
We are hoping the allotment shop is open this weekend as looking at the diary from last year - it was about now we bought the garlic, over-wintering onions and so we want to buy those and would like to try some over-wintering Spring Onions this year too. Looking forward to finding out what they have for sale !
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