First crop of the season (not counting purple sprouting broc. - last year's crop, obv) 3 stalks of rhubarb, picked, crumbled, eaten. Thinking of growing more in place of the (apparantly dead) raspberry canes.
Back to the allotment and planted more broad beans.
Currently we have:
Beds 1,2: no beans yet, one line of radishes. Somewhere between 10/20 or each type of bean sowed and germinating
Bed 3: 28 pea plants, a bit scrawny, room for ~140 more, maybe 20 seedings on the go.
Bed 4: 35 broad beans, mixed progress, room for another 20, none on the go
Bed 5: Parsnips, sowed, lots of little weeds
Bed 6: 3 rows of carrots sowed direct, another 2-3 rows worth in pots indoors, germinating
Bed 7: full of onions/shallots/garlic
Bed 8/9: radishes, currently a few cabbages sowed but seem a bit slow, and have confused them with the kohl rabi, Romanescos doing ok, kale too.
Bed 10: Caulliflowers doing well, and getting hardened off atm, not sowed any broccoli yet.
Bed 11: to be leeks/squash, both growing well in greenhouse. Radishes and broot in there first.
Bed 12/13/14: potatoes, on the rise.
Weeding- easily could hoe twice a week if the chance arose, there's a lot of couch grass forming from root ends, and we've got a bit of an influx of Horsetail, the worst weed in the world (tm) also.
Planted two grow bags with small tomato plants this afternoon.
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We had our first rhubarb too and first crumble. I have planted out a row each of broad beans, peas and mangetout which have been in the greenhouse and today sowed,in greenhouse again, some of your bulb fennel, borlotti and trail of tears beans. Also did a major weed of one of the onion beds.
ReplyDeletesupposedly bulb fennel might bolt if sowed too early. The type you have is in theory more bolt resistant, who knows?
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