Comfrey Tea Stinks

Listening to: Beatles

A good spell of much needed rain on Sunday has revived the plot a bit.

I am really chuffed by my tomatoes



Its my first attempt and they have had no feed, watered once weekly and no trimming of sideshoots.They are fruiting pretty heavily and still flowering. I am hoping for a bumper crop. They are a bush variety and have turned into a sprawling mass but so far looking healthy.I guess the taste will be the proof.

I was also quite surprised with the lettuce and spinach which I put in a week past on Sunday (17/07/2005).I watered them in pretty well and have really left them to it since.I expected them to have either died or be slug ravaged but they seem to be coming on strong.


The two rows furthest away are little Gem lettuce,closest is the perpetual spinach.The bush on the left is some more tomatoes.

Lastly my Heritage Beans are podding :D



I doubt the crop will be huge but I will get enough for a few  meals and some spare to sow next year.I will also keep a few for swaps.

Camera Quality id off the phone again, I must remember to take the digi up next time.

I had some help today from my father in law who very kindly cleared a lot of my paths.I need to find some way of controlling the weeds coming through the gaps.
Whilst Graham done the paths I dug over the top bed.I am hoping to get some late peas in there next weekend.The weather was very warm and my Heritage beans were looking splendid with the small red flowers appearing.Mike gave me a bag full of beans which had cropped on his plot so I dug up a few spuds and we had them all for lunch, very tasty.The beans are quite sweet when you eat them raw and delicious when cooked.



Rox and Lady Cosmos (from allotments4all forum) here is a picture of the beans flowering.Hope you get some success growing them as they taste lovely.

Listening to: Cavatina

Saturday :

Borrowed the petrol strimmer and went to town on the high weeds that have been going for it on the plot.It took about 30 mins to strim most of them down and then another couple of hours to get them cleared up and into the compost bin.I removed te tarpaulkin from the top bed and covered what was left of the weeds.Hopefully come autumn I should have an easier job of clearing what is left out,Cannot wait for that....
 

Listening to: Jeff Buckley

Spent about an hour watering my plot tonight.Pressure is pretty poor when someone else switches a tap on but it it better than nothing.I can also supplement with watering cans from the water butt.



I forgot the digi cam last night so took a picture of the Heritage Red Broad Beans with my phone (quality isn't great).They are coming on pretty well.
The weeds and grass is getting mega high on the wild part of the plot.I will need to get them strimmed asap.

I have been looking at making a wormery to further reduce houshold waste and feed the plot/garden.There is some instructions to make one for about £15 online so I might have a go at putting one together.There is a company who makes them (for about £90 upwards pfft!!) displaying at Gardeners World live so I may try and have a poke around thier stall on Friday if I can track it down.

12/04/2005

First viewing of the plot



Not too bad considering.Infact fantastic in comparison to others I have seen online.I was pretty pleased with it.

25/05/2005
six weeks on.....


not much change I hear you cry.Well.......
The weeds on the right are growing pretty well.Onions at the front,potatoes in the middle two beds,Heritage beans at the back in front of the cold frame and Broad beans on the wigwam frame.Also loads of raspberrys all around.Oh and a new compost bin made from old pallets.