Good old english weather

Due to the forecast for the day being rather nice the plan so cunning etc etc was to spend some time on the allotment weeding the beds. However, when the hailstones started I realised that the weatherman was a little bit out with his prediction so spent the afternoon in the garage listening to Planet Rock and planting seeds that can't go straight in the ground.



In the propagator are such diverse elements as:-
Tomatoes - Super Marmande, Golden Sunrise, Ailsa Craig, Gardner's Delight.
Brussel Sprouts - Bitesize
Savoy Cabbage - Resolution.

In the seed trays which will go up in the cold frame on the allotment are:-
French Climbing Beans - Sultana
Cauliflower - Igloo, Romanesco, Trevi
Rhubarb - Early Red.
Peas - Misc

The peas are the ones I dried from the plot last year which, so the word on the street goes, work with that particular sort of soil as they've grown there once already. If that doesn't prove to be the case then Louise's custard cream ration will have to be re-evaluated ;-)

Directly into the ground will go carrots, parsnips, onions (spring and otherwise) and any other seeds I have left over in my secret stash.

Now for a large jam scone to replenish all those calories sat in the comfy chair in the garage. It's a hard life... it really is.

Get in there.... you spuddy beauties

A few days without rain so headed up the the allotment to get the spuds into the ground at last. This year I have Pink Fir Apples, Lady Balfour, Juliette, and Epicure which should give me spuds over a few months.

I also started weeding the plot which has been over run with grass while I've not been looking. The spinach bed, which is typical of the others which have gone wild looks like this:-




The onion bed which I have just worked over did look the same (but with onions in place of the spinach obviously) and now is much neater.




My garlic bed is also coming on a treat and got another helping of chicken poo pellets. Louise traded some of her rhubarb for some chicken poo on her garlic as well. I think I got the tastier end of that bargain :)

The leeks are not doing a cotton picking thing so I picked the biggest ones for my tea and will turn the rest into soup or equivalent.

The jersualem artichokes I forgot about don't seem to have done much at all so I'm leaving them in the ground to give a bigger crop next year. They should provide a decent windbreak at least for the rest of the plot.