Drowned Rat
Good afternoon guys and gals. Hope the start of March finds you all well. I'm a fraid this is a text only update, as I forgot the camera again, good job breathing comes naturally. Anyhow, left the house in bright sunshine this afternoon, and arrived at the plot as it started raining, but never mind. What progress since the last update. Well, I have planted a couple of rows of carrots (Early Nantes), and a couple of rows of parsnips (Hollow Crown). I have planted the carrots with spacings to allow for onions to go in with them, to try and reduce the risk of carrot root fly. They were station sown, at spacings of around 4cm, with 3-4 seeds per station, to be thinned out once they have germinated, and reach around 2cm in height. The parsnips were sown in a simliar way, but without the spacings for onions. The onions will go in the ground next weekend hopefully.
In the greenhouse, I discovered that nobo memo board pens are no good for plant labels, as it washes off, and the condensation in the greenhouse has removed a lot of the writing off the plant labels in there. Luckily, there was enough writing left on the tags for me to recognize what was what, and re-write it in pencil. Suffice to say, my tomatoes, peppers, chilis and aubergines have germinated, so I should get a nice long season out of them.
And finally, I planted the salad and early potatoes today, after having them chitting in the greenhouse for a few weeks. The two varieties were Charlotte salad, and Harlequin first early. These were planted in a trench, approx 6in deep. After digging the trench, I put a few handfulls of pelleted chicken manure in, and dug this in, before placing the seed potatoes in the trench at spacings of around 12in between tubers. The soil that was dug out was then raked back into the trench, and earthed up, to offer protection in case we get a few late frosts over the next few weeks.
Well, that is about it for this update, and will try and remember the camera for next time.
Cheers. P.
In the greenhouse, I discovered that nobo memo board pens are no good for plant labels, as it washes off, and the condensation in the greenhouse has removed a lot of the writing off the plant labels in there. Luckily, there was enough writing left on the tags for me to recognize what was what, and re-write it in pencil. Suffice to say, my tomatoes, peppers, chilis and aubergines have germinated, so I should get a nice long season out of them.
And finally, I planted the salad and early potatoes today, after having them chitting in the greenhouse for a few weeks. The two varieties were Charlotte salad, and Harlequin first early. These were planted in a trench, approx 6in deep. After digging the trench, I put a few handfulls of pelleted chicken manure in, and dug this in, before placing the seed potatoes in the trench at spacings of around 12in between tubers. The soil that was dug out was then raked back into the trench, and earthed up, to offer protection in case we get a few late frosts over the next few weeks.
Well, that is about it for this update, and will try and remember the camera for next time.
Cheers. P.
posted by Pinsrap at
5:04 PM
