Don’t think I want to grow these anymore. Simply can’t get it right, and they so seem a bit pointless to be fair. This mess , is this years crop. Roughly in line with last years; with the same level of write offs. My heavy clay really doesn’t like them; so perhaps I need to take the hint. The crop and quality does nothing to sell itself. I would rather just sink more garlic.
These are some of the plants that were nearly cooked to dearth. So they need a little loving. Sat in lot of water, I am trying to revive them a little. A few of the leaves are very limp; but a few are bit more waxy and toughened looking.
The pretty purple has succumbed and ceased to exist. The two California wonder sweet peppers are also a bit ropey looking.
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Have removed the fleece from over the potatoes. If it does frost between now and the end of the month, will have to recover. Above is the one mound of red duke of york, These are first earlies, so could be up as early as next month. They have been in for about eight to nine weeks, I think. I had been expected a few more clumps of leafy foliage. I can’t imagine that the other two mounds so expertly sunk by the artist in residence will have failed. He’ll be gutted if they have! We want a success, so A)he comes back again B) he sees that his handiwork paid off. I do want to see the red potatoes come out, they are being played with this year, for the very first time.
The vast majority of the other spuds are up. Am yet to see any Maris Piper though. Lady balfour, international kidney and King Edwards, have certainly sent up green leafy shoots. I can only imagine that the seed potatoes are perhaps struggling to grow through the heavy clay. The very name of international kidney makes me laugh. These were not planted in trenches, but sunk with a bulb planter. So it will be interesting to see how these will progress.
Today was the day that the tomatoes were turfed out of their transparent box in the poly tunnel. They have been sat there for a while making the transition. To be honest, think it was bit too hot for them, a few of the leaves have been scorched no matter how much I watered them. At forty degrees in the poly tunnel, I can understand wanting to get out.They were also getting tall, not gangly, but ready to make an exit.
So today there were meant to be fifteen plants, planted out. I managed fourteen, as one of them is actually quite tiny. Looks a bit developmentally delayed, compared to the rest of it’s peer group. Last year, all of the tomatoes were in raised beds. This year, with the extra space, with the exception of four, out in open group. Dotted in the corners of large beds, in project othello, largely. Quite an assortment really varieties, we have black cherry, alisa craig however you want to spell it, money maker, gardeners delight and yellow stuffer. I did look at the number that I planted out today, and surveying the space; felt a pang to sow some more. We shall see, I know that they grow reasonably quick anyway. Have bulb planted them in and watered.
The project has grown over the the last five months.
And so I had an idea to make it a prettier.
Took me a while to figure out how to do it.
Thread your bead onto a crochet hook, and under a stitch on your left needle.
Pull the stitch through, and placed on your needle; you can stitch as normal.
They made it over night, under a fleece. Even had to evict two slugs that found themselves stuck in the builders sand placed around the base of the plants.
What I have done is used some broken hoops to cover them a little differently. I’m a bit worried that the aubergines here will get a bit too warm and damp; inviting more slimers. Now it is rented for ventilation.
Same has been done with the sweet peppers and Nigel.
These are my four Dorset naga babies. yes, I know there are four babies in there. The tallest, I think, had three pairs of true leaves. Making progress, but slowly.
Leaves are starting to fill out and get more waxy. Was thinking how to boost them, so I have actually watered there and the other Superhots with some tomato food.
So far, two of these are going to be a me Alfredo and montague. Might give ’em a bit of character.
Have just planted some budded pieces of Victoria rhubarb. Did try once. But it didn’t take. And on that note, Aunty tish harvested some rhubarb and it’s about meet it’s destiny in a crumble.
Stitched on the fourteenth panel of the project today. Managed to create the most recent one over a few days. Normally takes about a week to make a huge fourteen stripe panel. At the moment, the project measures approximately two meters by half a meter.
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