Slug Eggs, French Beans to Parsnips
Slug eggs laid in the root trainer, they got squished. Planting out French beans, parsley and basil. New way with parsnips looking promising, brilliant foliage and great crowns.
Slug eggs laid in the root trainer, they got squished. Planting out French beans, parsley and basil. New way with parsnips looking promising, brilliant foliage and great crowns.
A little rain arrives which is helpful but not enough to sort things. Horseflies making life a misery with their razor jaws biting
Making a new batch of compost for the veg plots and using the compost from last year. Plus the hotbin composter in action.
Despite my worries about the heat causing problems in the greenhouse and polytunnel, they're actually doing very nicely thank you.They are producing well for me - aubergines, tomatoes, peppers being the main crops
We had a little drop of rain. Things doing well generally on the veg plot. Leek experiment, onions ready, lettuce in shade, blight warning, old beans germinate well, new watering cans and cabbage whites attack.
If you'd told me that we'd be hoping for rain here in Snowdonia, I'd have questioned your sanity and laughed. Well I'm not laughing now, this drought is getting serious.
There are many ways to water your plot but for a large area a sprinkler can be most efficient and used with thought not wasteful at all.
Every year I look at the rain coming down and wish we could have another summer like 1976. Now we seem to be getting one and it's not quite the same as when I was 21.
Just wishing you a happy summer solstice and reflecting on the mystery of life which is to be found even on the veg plot.
The greenhouse is doing rather well this year, even if I do say it myself. The tomatoes are sturdy and a very healthy deep green. There's a load of fruits developing and some of the Ailsa Craig and Black Russian fruits are a reasonable size already.
Post storm repairs and reconstruction. Brassicas planted out after the cage was rebuilt. Tasty calabrese and strawberries doing really well in hanging baskets.
I thought we'd escaped damage with storm Hector until I went up to the vegetable garden and saw just what the power of the wind can do.
The greenhouse is shaded to protect the plants from scorching sun, the redcurrants are netted to stop the birds eating them and the best cane connector from Figo
Not everything goes smoothly. The caterpillar swarm has attacked the redcurrants, a homeguard potato was killed in action and even the Merry Tiller has needed attention.
Making better use of space when propagating using the heated propagators and the process of pricking out the seedlings to transplant into pots and modules to grow on.
Challenging weather isn't helping on the plot but I've a new bed ready and the potato patch is organised and mulched. The path is refilled with clippings too.
The greenhouse has been set up differently this year and should be easier to look after - it's less crowded for a start. The shed leak is fixed and things are looking good in the polytunnel.
I thought I'd answer a few of the questions I often get about grow lights like Do grow lights work and which grow lights to buy.