On Sunday last week it was raining...pouring...deluging... it was a tad wet! We didn't go to see Doug, seemed a little pointless. We did a brief visit on Tuesday after work (thank goodness for the lighter evenings now) and were relieved to find no lasting damage from the recent wind/rain/hail/frost etc.
Today was a very different matter. We had more marigolds and a replacement batch of purple french beans to plant out, along with some replacement carrot seeds and other seeds for our "cut-and-come-again" section. We also needed to do a considerable amount of weeding. Our plot appears to be teeming with horsetail - one of those delightful weeds which is almost impossible to eradicate. Phil and I between us spent nearly two hours hoeing and on our hands & knees pulling up a variety of weeds. The upside was that during my weeding, I discovered some parsnip plants which had survived and a considerably larger number of beetroot plants than I had expected to see, I even found a solitary leek! Almost all of the potato plants appear to have now sprouted above ground. It could prove to be quite a harvest! Some of the fruit bushes are beginning to show signs of fuiting too, the rhubarb is going from strength to strength and the strawberries are definitely in full bloom.
Phil sowed a row of purple carrots and a row of orange ones (the last two rows simply never even materialised!) He also planted the marigolds, while I put in a row of lollo rosso lettuce, a row of radishes and inserted the beans next to the wigwam which Phil had erected. I also topped up the beetroot row with some extra seeds in the gaps.
Phil's final task was to harvest some more of our delicious purple sprouting broccoli. While he was doing this, a few bees arrived to take advantage of the yellow flowers so we decided to keep it outside the netting. While he was putting the netting back over the cauliflowers however, we had our biggest surprise. Three, count them, THREE cauliflowers ready to harvest. We had no idea they were even close to being ready but there they were, large as life. Absolutely amazing!
We're really loving this growing lark :)
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