This time of year the grass along with the weeds grow very fast indeed! Grass cutting is currently about every six days (if I am lucky!) so pretty much once a week. This will carry on until it gets a lot warmer.
In the veg garden it has been a busy week. Forking and weeding, trimming bed edges. Sowed Ciboulail (spring onion type), Great Lakes lettuce in the old seed bed, sowed caulifower Merville, Greyhound, Hope and Milan cabbage in the new seed bed. Some beetroot popped up in the poly tunnel so they have been transplanted. A couple of Gardeners Delight tomato plants made the the effort to germinate in the propagator and have been transplanted to pots. They are a little "weedy" but hey one has to try. The last of the Desiree main crop potatoes have been planted. First earlies have started to show. Some leeks dug up, just a few left now and they need to be dug up before long or they will just go to seed.
Annual bonfire has been lit and not everything I would have liked to have burnt has been but I had to get it done while it was dry and before the end of the month.
Lost another chicken to probably a fox so all birds consolidated into the main coop and they will be kept in for a few days. Main coop clean out. Average of 4.28 eggs per day this last week a drop on the previous week but not surprising if a fox has been stalking them.
Next week I will be starting to sow the squashes and melons.
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| Poly tunnel spring lettuce |
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