OH and I have been using part of the long weekend to get cracking on the plot. All of our plants have survived the last nightfrost scare. OH has dug over the potato bed and has put the tatties in during his first shift. During the second shift I planted out some seedlings (Bavarian radishes, borecole, lettuce) and dug over and weeded about 25 square metres of bed. Mr Vorwitz was in attendance again and brought his wife.
OH had to go back in the afternoon because Plot Newbie and his mate were coming round our house to drop off another load of recently felled conifers.
Have gone round with my camera to record where we now are with everything:
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| Leftover self-seeded calendula. Will lift them eventually and transfer them to our garden. |
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| Broadbeans getting a little chewed right now but otherwise doing well. |
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| This is last year's broccoli and red cabbage going to seed. I've left them standing because all the bees love the flowers and because I am collecting the seeds for next year. |
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| Self-seeded borage. Am leaving it for the bees and for the flowers later, which are edible and can decorate salads. |
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| Our new currant bed -- OH made it. Looks very tidy now. Must remember to net it very soon before the birds get to the berries. |
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| Self-seeded daisies -- I'm leaving them, they're so pretty. |
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| Borecole seedling, freshly planted. |
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| The area I dug over that day. By the end of the day, I had sorted out the untidy bit at the back and sides. |
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| An experiment with carrots this year. In front, the freshly planted pot with various mints plus a big bush of oregano at the back of the third planter. |
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| Leftover leeks. Must harvest soon -- they're about to flower... |
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| The lovage that we moved from the garden to the allotment has finally established itself in its second year and is living in the sunny herb corner next to the trellis and the rhubarb. |
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| My trusty lupins, about to flower. |
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| Compost heap |
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| The picture-move facility in the blog software isn't working, unfortunately so they will have to stay in their random upload order. This is a survey of the different types of currants we've got: black, red, and white. |
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| Our burn barrel, with some inherited metal rubbish. We're still hoping for a skip. Our plot neighbours did it right: they just dumped their metal rubbish next to the path near the main gate and one day it was all gone! As if by magic. We'll try that. |
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| Massive rhubarb bed. I'm a bit rhubarbed out by now. A handful of stems cost £2 in the supermarket so we'd be rhubarb millionnaires! |
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| Self-seeded parsley, very reliable every year. |
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| One of the potatoes: "Lady Christl", a first early. |
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| Scorched earth: this is where we torched all the rubbish from our house garden. Had to do 3 runs with the handcart to get it all there! |
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| Strawberry bed is finished, around 72 plants. Had to cover it with netting but the flowers survived the frost well. |
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| Main crop "Shetland Black" (the purple ones) |
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| The grape vines are out. Woo hoo! |
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| Borecole and lettuce seedlings protected from the birds. |
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| Lettuce seedling, freshly planted. |
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