Monday, June 9, 2014

Catching-up


Lovely sunny weather for a couple of days now. So time to cut the grass and try and make things look a bit better. The left-hand deep box is now about full.
The potatoes are all from last year, stored in the fridge over winter. I put the rest of them in the box by the balcony, with last year's molta.
I never got around to starting the beans indoors so I just soaked them overnight and then planted them out - see what happens. Once soaked French beans and Borlotti beans look pretty much the same (and I had already forgotten that I had soaked both!) so they are mixed together in the box.


J. Artichokes still hereFrench salad potatoes x4
French salad potatoes x4
French salad potatoes x4
Moonlight x5
French salad potatoes x4
Premier x2
Premier x2
Moonlight x5Masterpiece BB x4Italian BB x4Italian BB x4
French beans x9
French beans x9
French beans x9
French beans x3
Black Kale



 

Friday, June 6, 2014

Sunny at last

We have had SO MUCH RAIN. The grass was very long, and underneath it is all soggy.
Still, sunny today and the forecast for tomorrow is good.
I planted the potatoes in the left hand deep box. Three squares of French ones in the back row, then in front of that another two squares, each with only two potatoes save from last year (largish ?Premier).
I put the last three ?Premier in the square by the wall, added some red potatoes straight from the fridge, and covered the whole lot with the last of the compost.
I thinned most of the carrots, and the beetroot. It is all looking quite good now.
Tomorrow I plan to sow some beans, transplant the parsnips, and sow some salad.