Three beautiful days have brought the Pulsatillas into full flower, helped the germination rate in the greenhouse no end and given me a bit of a watering headache. The frogspawn is now a writhing mass of tadpoles. And we’ve spotted the first swallows on the phone wires on the lane, about two weeks earlier than usual. What does this mean? A warm summer, by tradition. Let’s hope so.
Veg Week is going swimmingly with plenty of inquisitive visitors dropping in to inspect our endeavours and pick up some supplies. Today’s questions included ‘Why did my Brussels sprouts go to seed?’. ‘Can I grow beetroot in a container?’ And ‘sorry to ask a really stupid question, but how many cabbages do you get from one cabbage plant?’. Not a stupid question at all. How many peas from a pea plant? How many carrots from a carrot seed? How many beetroots from a beetroot seed? See what I mean? If you don’t know, it’s not obvious.
Most encouraging is the interest in green manures. We’ve had to take some packets of the racks for ourselves before they all go. We’ve sown four different ones in a section of the veg plot that we’ve reserved for brassicas. I’ve never used them before so this is an interesting experiment for me. I’ll report back…
Back with some piccies when I get a mo with the camera
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