It’s felt like an age since I last posted anything on the blog, after a long weekend away visiting the folks-in-law at the seaside, and so much is happening on the gardening front.
At the allotment we’ve sown green beans, wild rocket and salad onions, and have planted out the cabbages that we started in the cold-frame at home. The tomatoes in the coldframe are looking great too, although after pricking out and planting on into bigger pots, I don’t know which are which anymore.
Our raspberry canes are growing better than last year. We transplanted them last spring and they didn’t seem to get over the shock. Pete’s built a support for them out of 3 bits of wood we had in the shed hammered into the ground with wire strung between them. We need to build some more supports this week before we plant our courgettes and cucumbers (still to be started off in the cold-frame).
We are having slug problems in the cold-frame, my first batch of cucumber seedlings were eaten down to soil level, and some of the cabbages were munched a bit too. Last year I tried smashed up sea shells lining the bottom of the cold frame, and while it reduced the slug problem, some of the tougher guys were still getting through. So this time round I’m trying a new product called New Horizons Organic Garlic Barrier that is meant to strengthen the plants and provide a granular barrier that the slugs won’t like. I will report back on how well it works.
So it’s just a matter of some warmer weather (looking forward to tomorrow’s forecasted 24′C), lots of watering, and trying to keep up with the weeding, and before long we’ll be eating lots of lovely fresh fruit and veg.
