With the day starting out so nicely, blue sky, sunshine I thought it would be a nice day to get down the plot. Before doing so, I checked my email and then messageboards. I burst into tears on hearing about one allotment friend from the boards is no longer with us. She was the kindest person in the world you could ever meet. We had met at a garden centre local to my mother’s. She came back for a cuppa. She had a big “home-office” folding file thing with her seeds.
I sowed mostly under the cloche things, peas: Petit Provencal; broad beans: Witkeim; The Sutton; spring onions: Ramrod; Purplette; lettuce: Belize; Aruba RZ; Rubens Red Cos; carrots: Early Scarlet Horn; Paris Market; Amsterdam Forcing; parsnips: Turga; and Babbington Leeks that I picked up from the seedswap at Potato Day in Ryton. Also planted out 10 Duke Of York first early spuds - first time they’ve gone in this early. The plot looked good. The overwintered broadbeans look pea/bean-weevil notch-free. The Purple sprouting broccoli looks good, though some leaves have the white blister on. Should have cleared some of the leaves away but it was getting late and cold. Leeks look good, pulled a couple. The Japanese radish things are almost slug eaten - perhaps I left them in too long. Also, the leaves come off the tuber easily. I am hoping to leave a couple in for seeds. Hubby had done some digging and planted a plum tree he picked up from a supermarket earlier in the week.
At home, started some Cavalier peas and Witkiem broad beans in guttering.
