So far things haven’t quite gone as I’d have hoped and it feels like most of the time I sit down to write something on this blog I’m generally moaning. Either it’s the weather or the slugs ate everything or I’ve not had the time, blah blah blah. So rather than let myself feel defeated I made the decision to have another go. Pea and french bean seedlings germinated in the propagator at home have now been planted out at the allotment.
Spinach has also started to sprout in the seed trays at home too, so hopefully going to get a second bite at these after the first ones I planted all bolted. To try and protect the peas this time I cut off the ends of some plastic bottles I’d been saving up to act as mini closhes to protect them while they grow. Didn’t have quite enough so some will have to make do with mini ones using the cut off ends. Planted out the leeks too. Have had them growing in pots for what must have months and they just haven’t done much so with a couple of them reaching the thickness of a pencil it was time to transplant them.
Strawberries are still going mental with their runners. I’m now up to around 30 new plants which once the last few I placed into pots this evening have taken root should give me enough to take down the plot and plant out into a bed of their own.
Can’t all be good news however and I will have a little grumble. Looks like my brassicas, either cabbages or white sprouting broccoli, which ever survived the initial slug invasion have now succumbed to white cabbage butterfly as they were crawling with caterpillars. Also looks like the blight has struck as well. Made the decision to dig up all my second early spuds. Most appeared alright but some had gone mushy. Was told that anything with blight should be burned. Didn’t know that so hopefully it will not infect anything else. Will wait a couple of weeks before digging up the first of the main crop as still have so many of my seconds that I gave a bag full my chef mate along with 2 bags of runner beans, which are now growing to about 12 inches long!!
Not going to have much time from now until the middle of October with my OU course project but I’m still hoping to get down at some point and make another sowing of carrots, cabbages and broccoli for the autumn.