I had a nice surprise today whilst watering my small veggie garden, as the water eroded a some loose dry soil from the base of my radishes I got the glimpse of little baby radishes peeking out. It's the first time I've grown the these little red gems and, despite hearing that they 'grow so quick' from countless individuals and in everything that I read, I never actually expected them to grow that quick!
So far they've survived the slugs and snails but I'm going to have to tuck them back into with little beds with some little soil blankets tomorrow properly before the rain comes... of they'll disappear!
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Been in the garden all evening, giving it some TLC. With all the hot weather and minimal quantities of rain, my water butts have run dry and I've had to resort to the hose... :o(
Quite proud of my efforts this evening though re:house and garden. Painted the architrave for the new built in cupboard, gave all the birds a good soaking with the post-move rediscovered spray gun, and I managed to clear out another bed, and successfully plant out some grown from seed broccoli, cauli's and brussel sprouts. I've only ever grown purple sprouting broccoli and cauli once before and that feeble attempt went more than a little awry, so I'm hoping I'll have more luck this time. I have a feeling it's a little late to plant them out, but hopefully (I'm refusing to look it up out of sheer pig ignorance - I've sown so shall endeavour to grow) we'll get some produce from them...
I read that planting onions between them helps them grow as a companion plant so I've put white onions in rows between them. I miscalculated though and have a whole batch of red onions of medium size (due to my tardy planting regime) which I haven't got room in the bed now. I guess I'm going to have to lift a few potatoes early and dig over the bed for the remainder of veggies which I've grown but not factored into ground space... I've also got some baby leeks which need to be planted out, so I think that I'll be doing that sometimes later this week... I love this gardening lark, I love getting the produce. I hate the slugs and snails which rob me of all my hard work, but that's another story...
Quite proud of my efforts this evening though re:house and garden. Painted the architrave for the new built in cupboard, gave all the birds a good soaking with the post-move rediscovered spray gun, and I managed to clear out another bed, and successfully plant out some grown from seed broccoli, cauli's and brussel sprouts. I've only ever grown purple sprouting broccoli and cauli once before and that feeble attempt went more than a little awry, so I'm hoping I'll have more luck this time. I have a feeling it's a little late to plant them out, but hopefully (I'm refusing to look it up out of sheer pig ignorance - I've sown so shall endeavour to grow) we'll get some produce from them...
I read that planting onions between them helps them grow as a companion plant so I've put white onions in rows between them. I miscalculated though and have a whole batch of red onions of medium size (due to my tardy planting regime) which I haven't got room in the bed now. I guess I'm going to have to lift a few potatoes early and dig over the bed for the remainder of veggies which I've grown but not factored into ground space... I've also got some baby leeks which need to be planted out, so I think that I'll be doing that sometimes later this week... I love this gardening lark, I love getting the produce. I hate the slugs and snails which rob me of all my hard work, but that's another story...
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