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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…

First potatoes eaten 2018 Jun 03, 2018 Dug up a couple of plants of our potatoes, which we planted back in Febuary. A mixture of sizes but all useful.

First flowers in wild flower meadow Jun 02, 2018 We have been trying to establis a wild flower meadow for 4 years and it may, finally, be starting to get going. We put in about a hundred plugs and about a 60% are thriving. The first to flower are the delicate Ragged Robin