By Phil, on May 27th, 2012% 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.
By Phil, on April 30th, 2011% Made compost trench in bed A and sowed half-row of French beans (Fasold) on it. Sowed half-row of Peas in bed D next to path. Sowed spinach in bed B.
Covered bed J and neighbouring fruit area in thick cardboard and leaf mulch to keep down weeds (had been a lot creeping buttercup and couch grass).
By Phil, on April 24th, 2011% Planted six rows of Anya and one of Nicola in plot I and bits of plot J.
By Phil, on March 6th, 2011% Planted ~100 onion sets (sturon globe) and 50 shallots (longor) at end of beds G & HÂ nearest Donald’s.
Cleared top growth from side of bed I and bed J and around currant bushes, used it to fill in hole where cold frame used to be. Dug out couch grass root from current bushes and tried to improve soil with with leaf mould from where black berry grows.
Harvested the last of the parsnips and the celeriac from bed D, got more than I thought I would.
Continue reading Sun. 6 Mar 2011
By Phil, on January 29th, 2011% 
Bed A : Onions
Bed B : Peas & beans
Bed C : sweet corn and squash (failed)
Bed D : Roots
Bed E : Brassica
Bed F : comfrey
Bed G : potatoes
Bed H : potatoes
Bed I : bare then green manure
Bed J : artichoke + bare
By Phil, on June 19th, 2010% Weeded.
Creeping buttercup was taking over bed J especially around the artichoke and derelict cold frame and spreading around bramble. So I dismantled the cold frame, burnt it and cut down all the buttercup and the sorrel which had gone to seed as is also getting out of control. Put most of the top cuttings on the bonfire (very smoky and antisocial), but also double bagged some with water to rot it. Will fork compost into bed J, and poss plant squash there or sow with green manure. Will be potato plot next year.
Also weeded between brassica in bed E. Have more purple sprouting broccoli than anything else (which we don’t need) but other broccoli and red cabbage look OK.
By Phil, on April 25th, 2010%  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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