April 2009
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Planting planting planting...
Into the greenhouse went:
Runner beans (6x Best of All, 12x Butler) Dwarf French beans Sprite x15 (another batch to do in a few weeks) Butternut Squash Hawk x 12 Courgette Defender x8 Marrow Green Bush x4 Sweetcorn Swift x24 Cabbage April x10 Leek Musselburgh Celery Golden Self-blanching Celeriac Monarch Marigolds Sunflowers
And into the ground:
2 more rows of potatoes, Winston and Desiree
Seeds
The seeds from the other day:
Parsnip Albion (F1) x4 rows Carrot Amsterdam Forcing 3 x6 rows Pea Little Marvel x2 double rows
Plus yesterday:
One row of Winston First Early potatoes
One and a half rows of white onion sets (Stuttgarter Giant)
Spring
It has suddenly dawned on me that its time to get busy!
Today: I’ve planted carrots and parsnips (in the raised bed we built and filled a few weeks back) plus some peas.
There are potatoes in a big bucket in the ‘greenhouse’ which are going strong, and a few of the very-first-earlies are showing in the ground.
The last of the leeks have been pulled (and chucked,...