Weeding frenzy
Frantic Gardener on Jun 3rd 2006
why is it that weeds grow so well and so fast???
well, yes, I know, its cos they are best adapted to our particular soil and microclimate, whereas our crops aren’t, and need some care and attention. And yes, i know that nettles are techniaclly edible, but TBH, I think I’ll wait until I have a food crisis to eat them, and instead use them to make feeds for the plants.
chris has done sterling work, and re-cleared half the veg patch [photos tomorrow] aidded by the fact that alot of it was under cardboard for most of this year, so nothing had too good a toehold. even so, it was a hard and long task - he deserves a beer!
into part of this I have nearly finished planting out the sweetcorn. All the pumpkins are out, most of the festival squash are out. Remeber the billion butternut squashes my daughter sowed? well they got left out at our party when I gave over half away, and ibetween floods and cold, are all dead - sigh! however, a few seem to have sprung up with the peppers, so i will tease some of those out and see if they catch up nicely. just the courgettes then. oh, these are being planted 3-sisters style - though will have to quickly sow some french beans to go with them
Well, all the peas and beans tomorrow and potatoes! Then, we will be planted out, and just the sowing of lots more peas and beans [particularly beans], whatever we have time for a second of and salad crops to do. Oh and the potting up.
Oh why oh why did I let us get so far behind???
All the plantings could do with a drench of foliar feed, but its dark now, so will do that first thing.
well our butternut squashes died to. I tried really hard, had 2 that looked ok by the time we got back to scotland. Wasn’t going to bother with one of them but did anyway. After a day home one of them got lopped off by “something” and so I was stuck with my 2nd one (the one I wasn’t going to bother with), I nursed it to health, finally planted it out and then something ate that too. Grrr!!!
Good luck with it all, looks fab. I really wanted to grow sweetcorn but my first sowing in peat pots are not coming along well at all so I’ve done a last ditch attempt by sticking some straight in the soil. And don’t ask me about peppers!!!