In the garden the never ending round of tying up tomatoes, weeding, grass cutting, edge cutting, transplanting and cursing chickens continues. Added to this mix were sheep! The little blighters broke down a gate and got into the garden The worse damage they did was to eat three out of five of my celeriac plants and they ate all the tops off the carrots not to mention leaving foot prints over the beds! Could have been worse. The best thing they did was eat the weeds around the apple trees. First picking of broad beans has been done. Very nice they were too with a bit of parsley sauce. I have been fighting the Ambassador peas. They are not germinating well, least that is what I think. Could be mice I suppose but I am having to resow into gaps. The mangetout which is next door to the peas is doing just fine! I have now transplanted 5 dessert melon plants into an outside the poly tunnel bed. It will be interesting to see how they do. I also transplanted Provence thyme plants and should have a nice bed of thyme in time (pun?). Where allowed to by chickens and sheep vegetables are more or less growing well. It looks like being another disappointing season for the Gigante runner beans. Potatoes are thriving! Sprouts are thriving . Never grown sprout plants like them. Still a long way to go though. Parsnips and summer cabbage looks good as do the next lot of lettuce and the beetroot. Outdoor tomatoes are looking better than the ones in the poly tunnel! Now that is a turn up for the book!
On the chicken front we now have two broody hens both sitting on eggs. Mrs Chick if she is going to hatch any it should have happened by the next blog. Mrs Sussex has only just started so she has a few weeks to go.
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