British Queens

Our British Queens taste even better than they look!!!

It's about time for an update!!!

After getting well and truly stuck in, we left the plot all by itself for two weeks, mainly because of the rubbish weather, what a mistake that was, there are weeds every where!!!

We broke the hoe out and now it's not looking too bad. At least we have somewhere to put all the rubbish now as we have a half built compost bin. It was a very hot day though and I ended up getting mild sun burn.

As for the veg, well apart from being scorched, the potatoes and garlic look awesome and are coming along really well. The parsnips and carrots are coming along, but our rows are a bit sporadic as not everything has survived or come through. Our courgettes have suffered too and we've even lost a couple of plants.

The peas look great and we've now got a little wig-wam to support them. We've given up on the beans though, as with last year they're really poor and we've decided that we will use the bed for something else.

The salads leaves have 'rocketed' and our sunflowers are already a foot high, we'll have a colourful plot even if we have nothing to eat !!!

Great weather...

The weather recently has been fantastic. That means that me and the wife have been able to get stuck in a bit more.

We have now dug as many beds as the whole of last year, and tonight we managed to get out peas and beans in, plus a few salad leaves and little pepper plant.

Charlotte has burnt off all the old brambles and the top of the plot is looking bare, theres a lot more groundwork left to do, everything left has been untouched for some time, I feel the back ache coming on already!!!

Hard work...

We've had a really busy bank holiday, the weather wasn't great for the first couple of days but Monday came good. We worked really hard to get a number of beds dug over and we now have carrots, parsnips and courgettes on the plot.

Charlotte also spent a lot of time stripping the brambles back at the top of the plot and they are all but gone apart from some roots.

We've also commandeered 8 pallets courtesy of AXA, so after a bit more clearing i'll get on with building 2 big composters.

Next up are our legumes and once they are in I can proudly say we've planted as much already this year as we did in our first year. We've got a long way to go though and we've got plenty of room for some more, we just need to do all the groundwork.

We've also been careful to rotate our beds so there are no two types of crops in the same beds as last year.

Oh yes and i've put a nice row of sunflowers in to brighten up the place, apparently the petals make a tasy addition to salads!?!? We'll see!!!

Happy Easter!!!

The Easter weekend is here so hopefully we'll get some half decent weather so we can 'crack' on (Easter - Eggs - Crack - get it?)

Here is a picture of the plot as it looks currently, Charlotte planted some marigolds and geraniums at the front to give us a bit of colour. I'm also going to put a row of sunflowers somewhere in the middle of the plot.

We have our plot inspection on the 19th, by then we should have been able to dig over as many beds as we did for the whole of last year, hopefully they'll all be planted up too.

We're on the forage for palletts this weekend so we can build some composters