Well, a whole dedicated to plot 119 today. Started the day at the local garden centre, and after a cooked English breakfast (for energy!!) we bought 4 raised beds. Then home to pick up plants before heading to the plot. Was a case of dodging the showers today but not too bad and certainly nice and cool to be working today. Polytunnel is looking good, had to string up the tomatoes today as getting quite tall, and lots of flowers coming which is a good sign. Simon got to work putting together the four raised beds, the plan is to put more in as time goes by but at £50 for 4 it will take quite a while, we reckoned on £400 for the whole plot which is a bit ouchy but a long term investment. As the rest of the plot is all planted up we will just build the beds up over time as things are dug up and eaten, next will be the spud section. Bed 1 soon became home to Simons sweetcorn 'Lark' which he had grown in toilet roll tubes. Bed 2 was for the florence fennel, Bed 3 for swiss chard (rainbow) and Bed 4 for self blanching celery. Simon then put in the first path and covered it with woodchips. Certainly looks a lot neater and quite pleased with it all.
Will be nice when the next row goes in, but that wont be for a while yet as things are growing there already! Whilst Simon was doing the raised beds, I weeded the whole plot, nice andeasy due to it raining heavily the night before. Few brussel sprouts and kohl rabi have been nibbled but replenished the slug pellets so hopefully that will sort that out. Put in a half row of dwarf beans too which are left over from the other plot. Had some blackfly on the broad beans so did a lot of squishing. In a organic fashion of course..... the ants seem to be enjoying them, and the ladybirds are out in force as well so hoping that nature will take care of the pests. Courgettes are doing well too.
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