Tidying up

We had a few hours down at the patch this morning.

Heather tidied up the peas and beans. The gaps in the Autumn sown peas have been filled by taking plants from another bed and the Autumn sown broad beans have been consolidated into two beds.

The garlic is looking really healthy after having been hoed and given a dressing of bonemeal.

A lovely day to be caught in the rain !

Not a very pleasant day yesterday, but we put our rainwear on and got stuck in.

Heather put in a lot of effort weeding and applying a mulch to the fruit bushes.

As can be seen from the picture below, the bushes are looking really healthy and are already producing new buds. In the coming weeks we will be building a cage to protect the fruit from birds .

I managed to plant three rows of early potatoes : Two rows of Nadine and one row of Maris Piper... which are not really early, but produce the best-tasting 'new' potatoes when lifted whilst still small.

Sowing the seeds

We had a very productive morning down at The Patch today.

After lifting the black polythene sheeting, the nursery bed was raked-over and we sowed Leeks (Bleu de Solaise & Oarsman F1) and some Purple Sprouting Broccoli.

In the remaining area, we sowed Shallots (Banana) and Onion (White Spanish Sweet).

We allocated a space to plant Onion (Kelsae) seedlings once they are large enough to transplant.

We lifted the Onion plants (Sehshyu Yellow) that were sown in the Autumn and transplanted them in a new bed with good spacing to allow them to attain a good size for the kitchen.

In the space vacated, we sowed a row of Spinach (Perpetual & Fiorana F1) and a row of Japanese Bunching Onions (Ishikura).

To complete the morning, a row of Beetroot (Moneta) and a part row of Radish (Candela di Fuoco) were sown either side of the Apples.