April 2010 Archives

I snatched some allotment time this morning instead of working, and took two trays of pea seedlings down to plant out. I'd erected a pea frame Monday afternoon with the help my number one gardener, so it was all ready to go.

I had to finish stringing the frames up, as I abandoned that in order to administer first aid to my mini digger, who had fallen over her fork and landed on her knees. But that didn't take long.

These are the two tallest types of peas, sugar snap and carouby mesane mange tout, so I've built the pea frame in the middle of the row, and I plan to run two smaller frames on either side for the other two.

Right now it's really hot, so I hope I've given them enough water to settle in!

I woke this morning to the sound of rain, and my first thought was "No!!!! I was going to be down at the allotment!" and then my second thought was "Oh no, why didn't I do the washing YESTERDAY?" and then my third throught was "Well at least it's nice for the London Marathon".

So you can't say that I am ALL selfish!

But luckily, after the initial rain the day settled into a grey and overcast one with windy weather, scudding clouds and sunny patches. We went off to the allotment afterall and got loads done.

I now have several rows re-dug, onions and shallots in, and potatoes planted:

The rhubarb has gone mad, as usual, so I had to do the first harvest of that. A nice surprise also was the purple sprouting broccoli which I left to its own devices. In fact - strangely - the ordinary broccoli which had already been harvested, but not removed had decided to grown a sprouting variety too!