Busy week

This week has been a very busy week on the veggie growing quarter. The chameacyparis elwoodii are now reduced to a manageable size although they will probably need removing entirely next year.

After an awful lot of very deep digging, a painstaking task because the area was infested with a lot of perennial weed such as dock and horsetail the new rhubarb beds are now planted and mulched down with a thick layer of well rotted manure and straw. The plants were a mixture of old existing plants that we have divided and some new stock that we grew from seed a couple of years ago. All we now need are some Victorian rhubarb forcers (dream on).

Hopefully this will produce a good crop of rhubarb next spring.








The Morello cherry that we planted last year is now training nicely against the cooler wall, eventually we hope to have a row of trained wall fruit here.

Its also been a big sowing week, the season being so late this year following the harsh winter. Soil temprature is now ok for outdoor sowings and so far we have sown broad beans, parsnips, radish, salad greens. To fill the space in the border against the wall we have planted the first of the cauliflower, sprouting broccoli and lettuce.