Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Absolutely radishing

Don't get too excited, the little green fellows at the end of the plot aren't from our original seeds. Karen has transferred her "purple sprouting" from the back of her car to the allotment. They seem to be doing well, although a few little, brown aphids have started appearing on some of the weaker plants. Nick suggested some kind of miniature sniper (on the back burner for now).

You can't see from the above photograph but there are some radishes appearing halfway down the plot. A whole row of little sprouts. I'm not sure if any of us like radishes, but we'll choke them down in the name of agriculture.


Karen, Jamie & Tom

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Sowing the seeds of...

Hooray! After at least half an hour of hard labour we finally have a clump and pebble free patch for our lovely veg.

You can just about see the tiny sticks that mark the vegetables of the future, the first row is swiss chard, then we have cylindra beetroot, closely followed by little gem lettuce and finally some radishes (not for eating, but they should keep the Fraggles off the chard).

Hopefully this blog will be updated with a new photo for each week, but it will also act as an aid to memory because we didn't write down what everything was. Doh!

Karen, Jamie & Tom