Monday 19 May 2008

The bed before

The bed after i spend hours sieving it



The new beds Sprouts on the far left and broccoli on the right



Strawberry bed after





Strawberry bed before






Its been a busy weekend on the Lottie, Since Thursday I've sown leeks(musselburgh) around 30seeds in a tray 3"deep and put them in the greenhouse hopefully am not to late with them.I've also made an extra 2 beds next to the sprout bed i recently made 1 of which I've put some broccoli seedlings in 10 in all.The neighbouring Lottie which Ive renamed plot2 has been under a big clearing & tidying up project over the weekend is looking better now I've tided up the strawberry bed dug up all the strawberry plants after identifying them beyond the weeds and replanted them in nice neat rows in some black Terran (Weed barrier) might not produce fruit this year now but be ready for next season. And I've also got the bed next to the strawberry's weed & stone free after sieving it for hours and to a nice tilth ready for something to go in.I've also corrected a mistake which i made with the cabbage :( i planted all 3 seedlings into the cabbage bed without THINNING out before hand so i had 5 rows of cabbage with 24 plant to a row bit much hey? so i decided to dig them up and thin them out but after i had done 1 row they looked like they where dieing.Oh NO......(but after 5 day looks like they are finding there feet again and starting to stand up) But i got some advice off some professional growers on http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/ Cracking website..And I had to take a pair of scissors to the 2weakest plants sacrifice or what:( But apart from that mishap everything else is
fine

1 comment:

Su aka "Clarkie" said...

great work on the lottie lee, well done, lots of hard work and i hope your veggies are worth it, as i am sure they will be - squashysu