Harvested beans (pulled up the runner beans), potatoes (about half now up), leeks (the first mature ones) a few carrots, broccoli, some sweetcorn, turnips, courgette & marrows.
Grass needs strimming, otherwise looking good.
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I suppose I could just post new stuff and maybe no-one would notice the one-year hiatus… but no. Last year fizzled out, bad weather, lots of stuff didn’t grow, what did grow got blight / white rot / whatever, motivation left me. Over the winter I dug over most plots and covered with leaf mold. We decided to make life easier by planting half the plot with fruit bushes that don’t need too much doing each year. Didn’t quite it ready in time to get them in before the growing season started, but maybe the opportunity to be sure that all the perennials are dug out from that side is a good one. Here’s the plan for 2012: As of May 27 we have planted the potatoes (beds C&G), strawberries (bed G/H), beans (broad, runner and dwarf & climbing French) (bed E — along with lettuce and raddish), parsnips, perpetual spinach, & beetroot (bed D). On May 27th we planted leeks (edge of bed C) and sweetcorn (bed B) from pots that we had started at home. We have some courgettes, red cabbage and sunflowers at home. Also sowed some sunflower seeds at along the road at bed A and nasturtiums along the side near the public path. The pots are just showing in bed G; the broad beans are up, but small; the runners and climbers are just showing, but no sign of the drawfs, so sowed one more at each station; the strawbs are flowering. Too early to tell about the others.
Bed A : Onions  What was where in 2009 Bed A & B : potatoes Bed C: Onions & garlick, plus odds and ends like parsnip and salad later Bed D: Sweetcorn and courgette at one end, leeks at the other Bed E: peas and beans, with some lettuce and salad in between Bed F: comfry (permanent) Bed G & H: planted various squash, but they failed. Had load of compost buried and was kept covered w/ black plastic. Bed I: Brassica, incl. purple sprouting broccoli which overwintered to 2010. Bed J: Globe artichoke + sorrel (permanent), planted black currant off-shoot from Donald in summer . Fruit: Rhubarb x 2 (one near fence ~1yr old, not cropped) Red currant and Black currant had been over pruned so didn’t bother cropping, Strawberries in containers by currants, Blackberries and raspberries. In November planted: Bed A: onion sets (failed, frost) and garlic Bed B: broad beans (only two survived) peas (failed) and lettuce (did surprisingly well) under fleece. |
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