digging and weeding
HelenHaricot on Apr 22nd 2006
how those weeds grow!
Under cover
only a minimum of sowing today - the replacement courgettes [gold rush], mixed lettuce and sweet fennel. Lots of watering in the propagatory and the greenhouse. Such a hot day that the temp in the conservatory reached above our scale [50C] help!! all windows/doors opened. It will get cooler in there when the grape vine leaves come out.
the runner beans and sweet peas have germinated, but not the climbing french beans.
Fruit
Our fruit trees have all come to life with leaf buds - no flowers, but that was expected for their first year. The grape vine has leaves and shoots all over the place. We can spot some not alive branches to be cut out. The training is not traditional - well the vine is> 100 years old. I’ve been looking up grape vine pruning and training, so we will try and get things going a bit. We’re not entirely sure what kind of grape we have - it has seeds, its green, and it gets sweeter the longer it is left on the vine, and was OK at Xmas. Our patio nectarine in a pot has some flowers. Lets see how it does.
The Veg Plot
Weeds continue to grow apace! I hoed the broad beans, garlic and half the onions. Chris and I between us dug over and weeded the area for the mangetout peas whilst BB slept and SB did some maths. The carrot lines are so runover with weeds that TBH, I can hardly see what is there, even the radish isn’t helping.
the asparagus hasn’t made an appearance yet though, and i haven’t managed to plant the potatoes- must do that!!
Weeds here are a MUCH huger problem that in our Leeds raised beds. hundreds germinate all over the place. The ground must be one massive weed seed collection. We are contemplating our mulching and growing through paper options for those things that are suitable.
The rest!
Well, we finally did some sorting of the pond, so that looks much better. Grass needs a cut and the flower borders are weed borders!
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I’ve only got half my potatoes in, so don’t fret.
What varieties are you growing? I’m doing Arran Victory, Cara, Maris Piper, Yukon Gold and Duke of York.
Must sow more carrots though. Have bought the fleece especially, so have to!
You’ve inspired me to go blog more garden stuff.
Hi Kris. TBH, can’t remember!!! must look and see. they were a ‘favourite salds’ selection, and an axona mira [i think!] they are in hayloft and need rescuing!
mostly salads as the farm down the road sells massive bags of potatoes all winter long - cheap and yummy - so no need to use up our space. Next year won’t grow any maincrop except pink fir apple [one of the ones]
blog your garden stuff and I will pop a link in the side.
dead jealous of the gorgeous garden!!! The only thing growing in ours just now is horsetail
By the way, how come there’s RSS feed for your comments but not for your blog?
no idea Katy. will get my ‘technical adviser’ to look into it!!
if you were coming, you could have some spare - particularly the butternut squash!!!
my technical advisor doesn’t know either!
really sorry I can’t come this weekend, would have been a nice way to celebrate “oficial-ness” but there you go.