So if you want to know what a week of sunshine does in May after a very wet but mild Spring, you only have to blink at the Hill (alright - a week since previous attendence) to find that there has been a collective explosion of growth.
An hour this evening saw me filling one of the daleks with pulled up weeds (they disappear into nothing in a few days) and fluffing over the bed with the most recent Dalek compost spread about.
Some of the more straw-like went back into the dalek for a another go, but this is now looking more like somewhere you can plant things rather than something you would feed to a horse.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen last week I had a mammoth seed sowing session in front of the tele - most relaxing. Runners, dwarf and climbing french beans, sweetcorn, leeks (bit late in according to the packet) and 4 varieties of courgette - the quantity of which I am already regretting.
Hi Hazel on the subject of ‘brassica massacre’ I’ve lost Brussels sprouts, flower sprouts and cabbages to molluscs this year so I’m back to sowing everything again where the veg compete with annuals in the greenhouse and tomatoes have gone out before hardy veg. Great hear your energy despite the difficulties.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I direct sow is parsnips - I've never even got on with 'nursery beds' so it's sow in pots at home all the way for me - not foolproof as you will see if you read on....
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