First Cherry Blossom 2019
Feb 04, 2019
We have the first blossom on our flowering cherry - 19 days earlier than last year and 9 days earlier than 2017
Sowed first peas
Feb 03, 2019
Sowed a first row of peas - 70 Kelvedon Wonder. Spread about 500g our own woodash along the row and soaked the peas in parafin to put off mice. The ground was fleeced for a few weeks before sowing and the fleece replaced after sowing.
Planted Charlotte potatoes and sowed first spinach
Feb 02, 2019
Planted four rows of Charlotte early potatoes under fleece. 60 tubers in 4 rows. Also sowed a row of spinach Palco.
Sowed Daikon radishes
Jan 03, 2019
Sowed first batch of Daikon radishes in plot 1a
Kevin rotovating the garden
Jan 03, 2019
We rented a giant rotovater on a 50% off deal over New Year and got a week for a weekend hire. Kevin heroicly rotovated our garden and the one next door we are taking over
Lots of orchid flower shoots
Nov 09, 2018
November seems to be the month for orchids to put out new flower shoots. We now have three of ours putting out new shoots.
Orchid flower shoot
Orchid flower shoot - slightly out of focus
Orchid flower shoot
Planted Asparagus
Nov 04, 2018
We lost all our asparagus due to very cold spring and neglect so trying again! Autumn planting is unsual but quite feasable, particularly here in Cornwall.
We got 10 of each and they are planted in two rows 5, 5, and 5 each alphabeticly from the bank.
Asparagus set out
Asparagus put to bed
We got ours from D.
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Camellia - flowering in October
Oct 27, 2018
Again this year the Camellia is flowering really early - end October. This is its second year and last year we put early flowering down to the disturbance of replanting but there isn’t that excuse this year.
Leatherjackets - trying out nematodes
Oct 27, 2018
Update About two weeks after treatment it is begining to look like the nematodes are working. The brown patches are greening up after a quite a lot of a rain.
Original post Earlier this year we suffered from leatherjacket damage, direct to the grass roots and subsquently when badgers dug up the grass to eat them.
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Planted board beans
Oct 25, 2018
Sowed a double row of Super Aquadulce from groseeds. Cleaned the soil more than usual and dug in a barrowful of home-made compost and a few handfuls of growmore before setting out the seeds. Sieved about 2cm of soil on top. Wetted seeds with parafin to put of mice.
Let’s see how an October sowing does…