It was a nice day on Saturday. All the remaining seed spuds went in: Sante; Early Puritan; Highland Burgundy Red; Picasso; Robinta; Harmony; Record; Pentland Ivory; Pentland Dell; Verity; Pink Fir Apple; Golden Wonder; Kerrs Pink. Sowed Fennel, Ukranian beetroot, Walla Walla onion, Egyptian Turnip Rooted beetroot, and Amsterdam Forcing carrots. No sign of any of the newspaper seed tapes germinating - weather may have been too cold; will give it another chance later this month.
OH was chopping down the hedge (it was a bit wild and out of control). He stopped when he saw a blackbird nest on Friday (there was a chick and egg in it). On Saturday, apart from a partially hatched egg (chick died), the nest was empty. He feels bad about not checking to see if there were any nests…. Overhead, members of the crow family were flying with bits of twig in beak for nest building. OH saw another blackbird taking twigs for nesting in the main hedge down the length of the allotment site, and maybe “our” blackbird has relocated.
