I called to the allotment shop on Saturday morning to pick up some shallots and garlic for Les at work, Graham threw in an extra bulb of garlic as they are trying to get rid of the last few remaining Spring planting bulbs.
We bought some special vegetable growing compost and on Sunday afternoon we planted 4 Bulgarian Carrot Chilli seeds, 4 Cayenne Yellow Chillis seeds, 3 Carnival Mix Sweet Pepper seeds, 3 Golden Cherry Tomato seeds, 2 Big Boy Tomato seeds, 2 Shirley Tomato seeds and 2 Gardener's Delight Tomato seeds. They are all in the front bedroom and hopefully within the next week or so we should see little plants starting ! Henry has been to check the progress at least 4 times already !
In the morning we had popped to the allotment to pick up the seeds we needed for the afternoon and I also planted the Yellow Moon shallots I had bought a couple of weeks ago (in the same bed as all the onions and garlic), as there was an empty row where we had removed the pak choi a few weeks ago.
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Weekend of 20/21st February - more snow !
I went down when the allotment shop opened this morning to buy Les his potatoes and get his membership, and also to buy my Maincrop (10 Sante, and 10 Cara). We had Cara potatoes last year and they were lovely, but we haven't tried Sante before so that'll be nice. Donna, Mark, Izzy & Olivia came over for the weekend and so we popped down to show them the allotment first thing in the afternoon before going down for an afternoon of fun at Blue Bear's playbarn !
We woke up this morning to about 3 or 4 inches of snow ! I thought we'd seen the last of it for this year ! At least it is melting so fingers crossed that was the last lot - I'm getting impatient now and want to start doing things down at the allotment !
We woke up this morning to about 3 or 4 inches of snow ! I thought we'd seen the last of it for this year ! At least it is melting so fingers crossed that was the last lot - I'm getting impatient now and want to start doing things down at the allotment !
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Sunday 14th February 2010
Henry and I went down to the allotment this afternoon, it was overcast and a bit rainy but we managed to do some tidying up. Henry found a very useful old paintbrush in the tip which he used to clean the outside of the greenhouse with the help of his metal bucket from Great Grandpa's. Then we both planted all of Great Nana's bulbs around the edge of the rhubarb patch, raspberry patch and in the rough ground at the edge of our plot. When they all flower it'll be lovely to think of Nana :-)
Mark (next door plot) or his grandad Carmine have obviously been building something in place of the chicken run that was previously there - quite a high wooden fence now, very professional looking - unfortunately they weren't there so we still have to guess what they are up to ! We are both secretly hoping for more chickens though !
We dug over a couple of the beds and removed some weeds, and then we put the remaining compost we had in the shed, and the worm wee that Erica gave us into the soil in the greenhouse and dug it over and watered it in.
We dropped off the borlotti beans in the shed and stored them with the other seeds we have.
Mark (next door plot) or his grandad Carmine have obviously been building something in place of the chicken run that was previously there - quite a high wooden fence now, very professional looking - unfortunately they weren't there so we still have to guess what they are up to ! We are both secretly hoping for more chickens though !
We dug over a couple of the beds and removed some weeds, and then we put the remaining compost we had in the shed, and the worm wee that Erica gave us into the soil in the greenhouse and dug it over and watered it in.
We dropped off the borlotti beans in the shed and stored them with the other seeds we have.
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Saturday 13th February 2009
Henry and I popped to the allotment shop when it opened this morning to buy some Borlotti beans - we bought 12 for 10p !!!! Amazing value - if we like them and they do well, we'll buy even more next year. This year we are splitting our beans (half Climbing French, and half Borlotti :-))
Monday, 8 February 2010
6/7 February 2010
Well, the allotment shop opened this weekend and I bought our first and second early potatoes (7 Foremost, 7 Lady Balfour) then for joining the allotment association as a member we receieved some Amorosa potatoes as well. We also bought some Yellow Moon shallots to put in next weekend. We were going to buy some borlotti beans as we fancy trying them this year but they didn't have any (but then later in the morning Andrea rang and told us she had found some loose and would save them for next weekend so I must remember to pick them up on Saturday !
On Sunday Henry and I popped down to the allotment in the afternoon and were pleased to find that the garlic had all started to come through, and the rhubarb too. I did some pruning (gooseberries, redcurrant bush and the raspberries as well). We dug over the greenhouse and got the inside ready for when the weather gets a touch warmer and we can start the tomatoes and chillies off :-)
On Sunday Henry and I popped down to the allotment in the afternoon and were pleased to find that the garlic had all started to come through, and the rhubarb too. I did some pruning (gooseberries, redcurrant bush and the raspberries as well). We dug over the greenhouse and got the inside ready for when the weather gets a touch warmer and we can start the tomatoes and chillies off :-)
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