Thursday, 12 April 2012
Allotment news - potatoes all planted
The weather continues to be dry and sunny here (though there's a chilly north wind). But it remains perfect weather for getting on with the planting, and I am pleased to report that the maincrop seed potatoes have now joined the earlies are all safely planted.
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Allotment news - planting potatoes
At last! The weather has been good enough to get some of my potatoes planted! I have the first earlies and second earlies in the ground, and if all goes well, will have the maincrop planted this week too.
Here they are... (if this was a video, you would see the ground vibrating as they all begin to grow..)
It is just great, working on the allotment in spring sunshine. Today, a particularly loud and liquid bird song caught my ear. I glanced up from my digging to catch a glimpse of the singing bird as it flew across the allotment. What was it? No less than a tiny wren. How can such a little bird produce such a powerful song? Wonderful!
Just for the record - here are the brassicas in their seed trays in the shed... (See last allotment post for more).
Here they are... (if this was a video, you would see the ground vibrating as they all begin to grow..)
It is just great, working on the allotment in spring sunshine. Today, a particularly loud and liquid bird song caught my ear. I glanced up from my digging to catch a glimpse of the singing bird as it flew across the allotment. What was it? No less than a tiny wren. How can such a little bird produce such a powerful song? Wonderful!
Just for the record - here are the brassicas in their seed trays in the shed... (See last allotment post for more).
Photo from this evening...
It's been a wonderful early spring day here on Skye - sunshine and showers. I took this picture about 7.00pm as I returned from the evening walkies with Cupar. The view is from Heribost over Pool Roag.
Friday, 6 April 2012
Allotment news
Sue is back from Kent, and I was all set to spend some of my new-found 'spare' time on the allotment, but what happens? A day of continuous rain...
So the potatoes remain on a table in the study, all chitted and ready, just waiting for a dry and ideally sunny day to get them in the ground. But I did spend an hour in the shed getting the brassicas started. (That's cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli and sprouts). I grow them in individual little seed trays in the shed (which has a large south facing window) to start, and then will grow them on in individual pots in the shelter of the cold frame before they go into the ground, so they will have a good root system to help them cope with the club root disease in the soil here. I'm growing cub root resistant varieties too, so I'm hopeful they will do OK.
So the potatoes remain on a table in the study, all chitted and ready, just waiting for a dry and ideally sunny day to get them in the ground. But I did spend an hour in the shed getting the brassicas started. (That's cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli and sprouts). I grow them in individual little seed trays in the shed (which has a large south facing window) to start, and then will grow them on in individual pots in the shelter of the cold frame before they go into the ground, so they will have a good root system to help them cope with the club root disease in the soil here. I'm growing cub root resistant varieties too, so I'm hopeful they will do OK.
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