Just a Quick Ten Minutes...

This blustery weather continues, but with the sun shining through the window & all the spring leaves on the trees out it was far too difficult to resist just nipping up to the Hill at lunchtime when I was out & about.

I popped a packet of RADISH (French breakfast 3) in my pocket & sowed a row of those, along a couple of rows of the seed tape CARROT (early nantes 5) – examination under castle carrot shows precisely two carrots growing away there from the first row that I sowed. We’ll see how these do, & if germination of these is poor too, I’ll have to consider that slugs might be to blame.

The potatoes are all doing well – so I whipped along the rows to earth them up with the natty little fork/rake/hoe thing that Jody stores in the tool shed – I’m not sure what the right name is for it, it looks like a back scratcher, & it is very useful indeed.

I did have some company from a bit further down – a plot holder from further down was working away with a shovel & broom to redistribute part of the most enormous load of wood chippings which had been delivered such that the pile didn’t block the roadway down to the bottom. I don’t know whose they are, & as he was intent on getting on with the job in hand, we didn’t chat.

I picked the first four RADISH (French breakfast 3) to have with lunch, then headed off to buy a bag of compost from the garden centre on the way back & I also redeemed a coupon from the Telegraph for a free tray of vegetable seedlings – hurrah! I chose leek seedlings – we were woefully short of these this year & I don’t intend to make that mistake again!