Saturday 17 March 2012

17 March

Managed a couple of hours this morning - went up on my bike!
Concentrated on bottom allotment, weeded bed 3 (this years brassica bed), tidied up the brassicas in bed 4 (the remainder will have to come out soon ready for more seed potatoes) and sorted out all the strawberries. Quite a few of the strawbs are about 5 or 6 years old and are getting a bit woody so I'm going to bring a load of the new plants in the greenhouse and refresh my plants.


I also cleaned up some of the paths, needed a spade to scrape off some of the strawberry runners, etc.


Finished off with some watering and tidied the shed as there wasn't room to swing a hamster never mind a cat!

In the conservatory at home everything seems to be doing well like the peppers and cucumber


the cabbages have lost a few of the lower leaves but the ones in the greenhouse look better, the sunflowers are getting quite tall, the marigolds, corn flowers and lobelia have germinated quite quickly, the celeriac looks good (never done it before, OH fancied it)


I'm pleased with the sungold tomatoes, they look ready to prick out (I haven't bothered to do any other kind, they are just soooo good and we have a great tomato swapping scheme at work!)

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