Woo Hoo More Planting

Planting Time Again

Although spring time is when the most sowing of seeds is done, we have found crops suitable to be planted now. After pulling up the radishes on the weekend we had a new plot to plant in. In the now vacant onion patch all dug over and covered in blood, fish and bone we planted a row of spinach, and half a row each of basil and chives. In the other free plot we have two rows of lambs lettuce. We'll soon have another free patch which we will be planting a few cabbages in.

The new peas that John planted just a week or two ago, have some very tiny but fully grown pea pods on. Unlike the pods from the older ones we pulled up last week which usually had 7-8 peas per pod, these ones have just two or three. Far from it being too late to plant out, everything we've put out these last few weeks have done really well.

A Windy Sunday

The wind yesterday was playing havoc with certain areas of lotty, though some were easier to rectify than others. The door which we used to cover up a hole in greenhouse one was blown over, which is no mean feat (I should know as I had to carry it into lotty). A few panes of glass from our makeshift cloche were knocked over. But the worst damage was done to out bottom runner beans. Part of the frame I made for them to grow up was snapped along with the end plant. Its a bit sad to see and as the plants are entwined and im unable to remove the broken one, but we still have an abundance of runner beans so alls not lost.

We added a new frame to the tomatoes which now as they are so big has to be trained along the roof and possibly out of the window. Apparently David who is a bit of a tomato expert hasnt had much luck with his this year, so we really must be doing something right. We have noticed courgettes propped up against Davids gate. We thought he must like them and added a few to the line. It wasnt until the other day we found out that he's the one who leaves them out for others to take, im keeping my fingers crossed that he'll leave some of his amazing strawberries out one day.

Although sometimes it seems like theres not much to do around lotty at the moment we have had a very productive few days there lately. Everything we've done theses last few days we have done together, which just goes to show that the cheeky monkeys really are a great team.