Tuesday 29th March 2011

Well, Henry had his final tooth extraction today and is now free of the teeth that have been bothering him thank goodness. It was a nasty one too - it did not want to let go at all, hopefully he won't be too bruised but we shall see. When he was feeling a bit better this afternoon we popped down to the allotment and planted the rest of the potatoes (Maincrop - Cara and King Edward), and in a space left in the potato bed we put a couple of small rows of purple topped turnip and purple kohlrabi. We did some general weeding and I pruned the tops off the raspberries and tidied them up a bit. We watered everywhere and got Henry's patch ready for planting. We planted one row of parsnips in his patch then tidied up and came home.

Second Earlies in the garden !

The second earlies (Charlotte) are now in the garden behind the garage so that's good. Just need to put the maincrop in down at the allotment maybe at the weekend if the weather is ok.

Monday 28th March - half day at work !

I made the most of the nice weather today and started clearing the allotment and getting ready for the year ahead. I did some weeding outside and also planted a row of Swiss Chard (Bright Lights) and a row of Cavalier peas. I've covered the peas with chicken wire so hopefully the birds will leave them alone and we'll have a nice lot of pea plants through in a couple of weeks or so.

Next I moved into the greenhouse and planted two Pumpkin - Spellbound, two Squash - Invincible, a tray of Greyhound cabbage, a tray of Parthenon broccoli and a tray of Lollo Rossa lettuce. I gave everything a good water and then came home !