Vinny's Allotment Plot

Productive morning/early afternoon on plot today. Arrived and was overwhelmed with the jobs that needed doing so just stood with a vacant look on my face for a while.
Started by tickling over a bed that had leeks in it, raked it into a seed bed and planted little clumps of Sutherland kale seedlings at 300mm spacings. The reason for the clumps was that I had grown them in an 8 inch pot and didn't want to tease all the compost off them by planting them individually. Once they are established in situ I will chop off the surrounding plants leaving one at each planting station.

The bed is 600mm wide so they looked a bit lost unti they grow a bit. With this in mind I sowed a row of radishes up one side and a row of lettuce up the other!
I then tickled over another small bed and sowed winter spinach,leaf beet and Rocket. Some of the aforementioned seeds were four years old so I sowed the whole packets in a small space to allow for percentage decrease of germination because of age?

I then raked and sowed 3 rows of Purple top Mian turnips in another bed. I also planted 3 red chrysanths I intend using for cut flowers.

I was pleased to see a goodly percentage of French beans have germinated (3 types) along with 3 rows of carrots.

Did a bit more hand weeding in the onion bedsn and watered some of the seedlings which appeared to need it.

I was going to erect my runner been poles but realised I had nowt to tie them together with at the top. I think cable ties would be ideal so if I haven't any in the shed a t home I will need to buy them. I put the Gigantes beans into the greenhouse as they were getting battered by the wind. I wont bring them out until I am ready to plant so I can tie them to poles.