The New Vegetable Patch
Saturday 16th May
[Photos coming soon!!!]
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Veg patch 2
I'm attempting to catch up, tricky as lots of things have been happening in the garden! But the second patch is now flourishing, with courgettes and broad beanseedlings planted out, and beetroot and lettuce seeds sown. First, here are the broad bean seedlings just emerging, and then 4 days later.(4th May).
I'm not actually sure when I planted out the courgettes, but here they are on 2nd May.
The broad beans went in on 6th May, and I sowed beetroot & lettuce seeds then too.
There was a frost on the night of 5th/6th, which damaged two of the courgette plants. You can see the water sprinkler that I've bought (delivered - I'm not going anywhere!)
So that evening I took some anti-frost measures - using cardboard, parcel tape & stones to make a nice 'tea cosies' for the eight plants - I added two from the back-ups; I didn't think the frost damage was bad enough to throw out the damaged pair (highlighted in white).
And the next morning, most of the cosies were still in place ;-)
There was another frost the following week and unfortunately one of the cosies fell over - the plant underneath was very affected - so I replaced it.
Frost
We have had two periods of frosty nights - one on 5th/6th May, which got two of the courgettes (see above ) and damaged a couple of the runner beans. I replaced the beans with back ups, but took them back to the greenhouse to have some TLC.
But then on around 13th/14th May, there was another, harder frost - it affected just one of the courgettes, a couple of the main crop potatoe plants, but also eight of the 24 runner beans :-(
So I used four the back ups, planted in between damaged ones.
Then as another frost was forecast, I wrapped up the beans to keep them cosy!(14th May)
Old patch
In late April, I heard the harsh buzz of a chain saw - someone was busy in the garden below mine. Hooray - the evil leylandii were having the top 10 feet chopped off, allowing sunlight to reach the weed fest of the old veg patch. SO I got to work, clearing and digging over part of it.
To be continued...
OK - more soon!