Sunday 24 April 2011

March & April Roundup

My lack of posting for a couple of months doesn't mean I haven't been busy; in the past few weeks I have sown:

15 orange wonder chilli pepper
15 aji crystal chilli pepper
15 rokita chilli pepper
3 cayenne chilli pepper
12 apache chilli pepper
10 roma tomatoes
5 sub-artic plenty tomatoes
41 (yes really!) money maker tomatoes
45 (and again, yes really!) california wonder sweet peppers
10 diablo sweet peppers
10 ozarowska sweet peppers
10 bellboy sweet peppers
2 gherkin cucumbers
4 mini-white cucumbers
2 slangen longoda cucumbers
2 marketer cucumbers
2 marketmore cucumbers
4 all green bush courgettes
3 tondo di toscana courgettes
3 black beauty courgettes
3 gold rush courgettes
10 sharpe's express potatoes
10 charlotte potatoes
8 okra
row of ishikura spring onions
row of white lisbon spring onions
row of barletta spring onions
row of chantenay red cored carrots
row of early nantes carrots
row of beetroot
row of spinach beet
row of pak choi
row of autumn mammoth leeks
wild rocket
3 reine de glaces lettuces
3 little gem lettuces
5 golden acre primo cabbages
5 kalibos cabbages
5 kale
5 early purple sprouting broccoli
5 calabrese
5 all year round cauliflowers
5 autumn giant cauliflowers
3 evesham special brussels sprouts
2 red delicious brussels sprouts
4 yellow scallop squash
3 jack o'lantern pumpkins (from saved seed)
10 yellow-podded mange tout
10 delikata peas
9 mini-pop sweetcorn
9 swift sweetcorn

Not all in one go obviously, and some of them (tomatoes and peppers in particular) were because of very poor or rather failed germination... more about that later.

I finally got round to tidying up the strawberry bed, so can now make out the original 6 plants from the weeds!


I was pleasantly surpised at how far the runners had rooted themselves alongside the currants and raspberries... hope that doesn't cause too much competition for nutrients though.



The last of the leeks were pulled up


And I carried out various general tidying up tasks. So, that's it... pretty much up to date.

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