Autumn onions started
Oct 12, 2021
Set out Senshyu onions on 20cm spacing both ways. Three rows then 50cm walkway.
Raked in about 10g m-2 of 15,15,15 fertilizer.
Dibbed a hole twice as deep as needed and backfilled with loose soil so the roots don’t have to penitrate compacted soil. Added a tiny pinch of Root Grow in each hole
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Blackthorn blossom is out 2021
Mar 22, 2021
Blackthorn blossom
Onions kept from June
Feb 01, 2021
Onions seem to keep well indoors
Onions from June
Tomatoes and Cucumbers have cotyledons
Jan 12, 2021
Twelve days after sowing. Tomatoes and cucumbers have full-size cotyledons. First aubergine just seen (pot on right of picture)
Tomatoes and cucumbers
Floyd Family History
Jan 11, 2021
Notes on Floyd and Wilkinson family history View/Download PDF
2021 Starts
Jan 01, 2021
Greenhouse controls updated. Raspberry pi in a new waterproof box from Timeguard. Added second heater outlet. Second 1200mm propagtor tray. One 120W for germination and peppers and one 60W for aubergines. 120W tray, when covered, keeps 75mm pots 12C above air temperature. Sowed tomatoes gardeners’ delight, aubergines moneymaker, and cucumber baby F1 Pots on propagtor
Started chitting potatoes 2022
Dec 13, 2020
Started chitting 32 (10kg) of Charlotte potatoes from the Potato House
Charlotte Potatoes chitting
Onions 6 weeks in
Nov 25, 2020
Onions have been in six weeks now and doing nicely
Onions after ix weeks
First sprouts 1st November (about 2 weeks)
Saturn and Jupiter over Pendeen Carn
Nov 06, 2020
Saturn and Jupiter coming into conjuction over Pendeen Carn. About 17h45 on 6th December.
8 second exposure x10 zoom on mobile phone.
Saturn and Jupiter setting over Pendeen Carn
First peas and beans just showing
Nov 03, 2020
First peas and beans just poking through.