#370 |
Canny session atthe allotment today. It stayed dry so allowed me to get quite a bit done. Before I went I had a plan. I took my trowel with me to facilitate plan.
Things on the priority list were:-
1) Split up and re-plant sttawberry plants.They have been in the same position for 3 years, so are getting a bit 'woody' and crop is diminishing.
2) Plant Elephant garlic from home grown corms.
3) Harvest remaining onions and prepare ground for next crop
4) Plant normal garlic
5) Plant out Durham Early spring cabbage seedlings I have grown in a large pot.
6) Sow Aquadulce broad beans under glass.
7) Plant out more Japanese onion sets
8)Harvest some Mooli.
Out of the eight planned jobs I managed to get the first three and the last semi-completed.
The strawberry plants were transplanted into a bed but I still have loads to plant in other beds.
I planted out a full bed of elephant garlic and gave the remaining corms I had left to a fellow allotmenteeer.
All of remaining onions were harvested and the beds they were in were prepared for the next crop, whatever that may be? The rest of the plan will have to wait until another day!!
Piccies below are of leeks that have bolted (but still loads that haven't) elephant garlic bed with corms eventually planted at trowel depth, beds where onions had been taken up, transplanted strawberries, mooli beside bed still growing (gave that away as well)
Things on the priority list were:-
1) Split up and re-plant sttawberry plants.They have been in the same position for 3 years, so are getting a bit 'woody' and crop is diminishing.
2) Plant Elephant garlic from home grown corms.
3) Harvest remaining onions and prepare ground for next crop
4) Plant normal garlic
5) Plant out Durham Early spring cabbage seedlings I have grown in a large pot.
6) Sow Aquadulce broad beans under glass.
7) Plant out more Japanese onion sets
8)Harvest some Mooli.
Out of the eight planned jobs I managed to get the first three and the last semi-completed.
The strawberry plants were transplanted into a bed but I still have loads to plant in other beds.
I planted out a full bed of elephant garlic and gave the remaining corms I had left to a fellow allotmenteeer.
All of remaining onions were harvested and the beds they were in were prepared for the next crop, whatever that may be? The rest of the plan will have to wait until another day!!
Piccies below are of leeks that have bolted (but still loads that haven't) elephant garlic bed with corms eventually planted at trowel depth, beds where onions had been taken up, transplanted strawberries, mooli beside bed still growing (gave that away as well)
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