Sunday 17th April

Well, what a glorious day - I'm pretty sure the temperature must've topped 20 today. It was beautiful. We spent a good couple of hours at the allotment this morning. Daddy and Henry cleared the weeds out of the two big beds and also dug them over ready for the vegetables to go in. In the greenhosue things were looking good apart from the 2 Gardener's Delight tomato plants which had died - not really sure why but the others look fine and we have plenty of plants still left. Henry's pumpkins (Spellbound) were both out, the tray of cabbage (Greyhound), Broccoli (Parthenon) and lettuce (Lolla Rossa) were all out and the Squash were just breaking through the surface of the pots :-) I sowed 2 trays of beetroot (Boltardy and Deltroit Globe), 2 trays of sweetcorn (Extra Sweet), a tray of climbing borlotti beans, a tray of climbing purple beans (A Cosse Violette) and a tray of runner beans (Lady Di). I also moved the net over a new row of mange tout and took it off the Cavalier peas which are looking great. We gave everything a good water and earthed up all the potatoes and then left it. Hopefully Henry and I shall pop down tomorrow and give everything another good water, the weather looks like its going to be nice for a while (Fingers crossed !!!).

Sunday 3rd April 2011

The first little leaves of the first early potatoes were showing through the soil yesterday morning which was nice to see ! Hopefully by next weekend we'll be able to see all of them poking through ! We took the tomatoes down yesterday morning and planted them in the greenhouse. I've stuck with 2 plants from each type we grew so as not to be overwhelmed by tomatoes and to leave enough room for the chillies, peppers and any lettuce we want to grow in there too. We have Shirley, Gardener's Delight, Golden Cherry and Tigerella. Hopefully they will do OK, we'll pop down after school tomorrow and water them. We will have to check on Henry's tomato plant he rescued and planted outside in his patch (he made a little bottle greenhouse for it so fingers crossed it doesn't die - he'll be upset ! The broccoli and some salad leaves were coming through in the trays as well so that is nice.