May 15th - 16th

I put in a bit of effort and sowed most of the seeds.
I had plenty of compost left from last year so I topped-up both of the deep beds and added a little dried seaweed too (all that was left).
The leeks, beetroot and spring onions were all just sprinkled in. I intend thinning them later. The carrots were as usual put as a few seeds, 16 spaces per square foot.
I seem to have forgotten the square at the front! The ones at the back are for potatoes probably, or perhaps the parsnips that are growing indoors.
The Carrot Week carrots are up now, seem to be doing OK and will need thinning soon.

7/8/14 sowed some mixed Italian salad seed and black kale in two squares, and transplanted the parsnips - they did not grow well indoors this time so may not do much at all.

Onions (yellow, Stuttgart giants) X16	Onions (yellow, Stuttgart giants) X9	Parsnip (7/8/14)	Parsnip (7/8/14)
Leek (Hilari)	Onions (yellow, Stuttgart giants) X16	Salad (7/8/14)	Kale (7/8/14)
Carrots (Nantes 2) X16	Carrots (Nantes 2) X16	Carrots (Chantenay Red cored 2) X16	Carrots (Chantenay Red cored 2) X16
Beetroot (Perfect 3) and Spring onions (White Lisbon)	Carrot week	Carrot week

More seeds in

I decided to get the carrot seed in while it is possible. The ground is wet now and the air temperature about 7°C over the day.
Sowed:
6 squares of Nantes2
1 square of Rainbow carrots to compare with the carrot week ones
2 squares of parsnip Albion F1, in case the indoor ones fail
3 squares of shallots - 1 bag of Picasso and 1 of Yellow Moon
1 square of spinach Fiorano F1, plan on second square in two weeks time
1 square of mixed salad leaves

That just about fills everything once the beans go in and the second square of spinach.
I never sowed anything else to have indoors. Or the sweetpeas. Plan to do that tomorrow.

Happy Summer!

Thursday was the first day of summer and certainly it is sunny but not terribly warm yet (7°C or less).
Ómar's mother gave me some chitted potatoes yesterday and told me to get them planted so I did! I added some leftover chicken manure and then decided I might as well get the carrots sown too. So I bought a bag of mushroom compost, a container of chicken manure, and one of dried seaweed. I put a handful of each in very square before sowing the carrot seed - see below. I added one square of spring onion seed too and there is a blank square left.




The garlic is looking pretty good now. I put some fertilizer round it today and covered it up again. Here is a picture of how it looks, and one of the potatoes before I planted them. Quite a mixture of potatoes, some I bought last autumn and kept in the fridge, the others are some French ones which I allowed to sprout a little.