Thursday, June 14, 2012
Sporadic
A word to describe the sunshaine and the postings in this blog!
After days and days of rain, finally a little warmth and sun. Hopefully the plants are soaking it up, like we humans are.
It's a mixed bag on the plot. We ate salad till it's coming out of our ears but some is bolting now. Luckily there are more baby plants to put out and the mizuna and rocket is ready to eat too.
Peas are incredibly prolific, they are ripening at various times but we are regularly eating little amounts of fresh peas for dinner.
The runner beans are doing very well, running up their willow poles. There are a couple of gaps that need filling, a job for the weekend. The french beans are sulking, I need to sow somw more, and also get the Cobras in and the Borlotti beans.
The baby cabbages and sprouts are now ready to plant out, when the garlic comes out this weekend, they will go in there, topped up by some fresh compost and a few pellets.
We are eating new spuds, they are delicious.
On the downside, the strawberries need sun, and the gooseberries have been stripped of their leaves by caterpillars :-( Raspberries are just appearing now, if there is sun, the crop will be overwhelming. But next year I need to be ruthless with them, they are just too big.
Squash - one cucumber plant has survived, I will try sowing more but it's getting late. Butternuts have come up, and 3 courgettes, I also found a mystery squash plant in with the beetroot, must have come from a seed or a rotted fruit, dunno what it is. I shifted it to a more convenient location, so we will soon see.
Only 3 pumpkin plants have come up from all the seeds sown, so I will sow another 2 or 3 I think, indoors to get them off to a start. Obviously something has eaten the seeds or in all this rain they have rotted.
The Fat Baby acchoca has sprung up, at least one of the plants, so let's see how that gets on, I will stake it this weekend. We will soon be eating our first artichokes, a little later than usual.
Weeds are everywhere but some hoeing this week has fought back a little. The tomatoes are getting so big, some have flowers and even baby fruit. But they need sun. as do the peppers and aubergines which are most unhappy.
More pics soon...
After days and days of rain, finally a little warmth and sun. Hopefully the plants are soaking it up, like we humans are.
It's a mixed bag on the plot. We ate salad till it's coming out of our ears but some is bolting now. Luckily there are more baby plants to put out and the mizuna and rocket is ready to eat too.
Peas are incredibly prolific, they are ripening at various times but we are regularly eating little amounts of fresh peas for dinner.
The runner beans are doing very well, running up their willow poles. There are a couple of gaps that need filling, a job for the weekend. The french beans are sulking, I need to sow somw more, and also get the Cobras in and the Borlotti beans.
The baby cabbages and sprouts are now ready to plant out, when the garlic comes out this weekend, they will go in there, topped up by some fresh compost and a few pellets.
We are eating new spuds, they are delicious.
On the downside, the strawberries need sun, and the gooseberries have been stripped of their leaves by caterpillars :-( Raspberries are just appearing now, if there is sun, the crop will be overwhelming. But next year I need to be ruthless with them, they are just too big.
Squash - one cucumber plant has survived, I will try sowing more but it's getting late. Butternuts have come up, and 3 courgettes, I also found a mystery squash plant in with the beetroot, must have come from a seed or a rotted fruit, dunno what it is. I shifted it to a more convenient location, so we will soon see.
Only 3 pumpkin plants have come up from all the seeds sown, so I will sow another 2 or 3 I think, indoors to get them off to a start. Obviously something has eaten the seeds or in all this rain they have rotted.
The Fat Baby acchoca has sprung up, at least one of the plants, so let's see how that gets on, I will stake it this weekend. We will soon be eating our first artichokes, a little later than usual.
Weeds are everywhere but some hoeing this week has fought back a little. The tomatoes are getting so big, some have flowers and even baby fruit. But they need sun. as do the peppers and aubergines which are most unhappy.
More pics soon...
# posted by antipodesgirl @ 1:58 PM 
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
