Spuds are up at last!

Had a lovely two hours up at the lotties tonight, and was overjoyed to see that most of the potatoes are poking their heads up, in fact, all ten of the British Queen maincrop and about twelve of the twenty Jersey Royals... gave them all a good soaking, made a mesh tunnel over the broad beans (all but three out of seventy two have come up, nice and strong) and weeded between the onions... All of the shallots and all of the red onions are up, all six jerusalem artichokes, and even some sign of the early carrots, and their border of spring onions...

Friday morning will see more weeding, planting the beetroot (next to the potatoes) and taking up thirty or so pea plants from the upright greenhouse at home...

My cabbages and pak choi are doing great in there too, but are a bit leggy, may try and bury the stalks a bit when they go into the plot...

Back to weeds

We're back, after an extended stay in Venice, thanks to the volcano...

Checked into the lotties last night, and the onions and shallots are doing great, so are the jerusalem artichokes, and almost every one of the broad beans are poking their heads up, nice and strong...

No sign of the spuds yet, disappointingly... and there are alot of little weeds, though helpfully they're just big enough to grab and pull out whole...

At home, all the peas, give or take, are sprouting in the upright greenhouse, as are the pak choi, pointed cabbage, and some of the spring onions... no sign of the celery yet though...

Photos up soon...

Going away, hope it's all going to be ok

Planted carrots yesterday, in half of the eight alloted rows, leaving room for intercropping later... bordered the whole carrot plot with spring onions to deter carrotfly, let's see if it works.

No sign of the broad beans yet, but raked, fertilised and watered the bed, then applied green netting to deter birds if the beans decide to spring up while I'm away...

Almost every single red onion is sprouting, along with most of the shallots, and four out of the five jerusalem artichokes have broken through...

So, fingers crossed, there should be alot to see when I get back!

The spuds are in!

Planted all the potatoes today, 20 Jersey Royals and 10 British Queen (good for roasties)

They've taken up a bed and a half, so need to think about what's left in terms of space, and what I've got left to plant up...

Aahh

Sunset! Time to go home for a bath.

Fine tilth

The newly raked bed for the broad beans, spring onions and carrots...

Looking NNW

This is the plot looking toward the new compost area (behind the blue water butt) I have put paths in between each end of the plots to make it easier to get to the rows of plants. The really finely raked bit in front of the butt is for the broad beans, and spring onions and carrots in the same patch nearer the spade.

More planting

Missed posting this last weekend, but broke the soil up some more on Saturday, raked a nice seedbed and planted 72 broad beans in 6 rows... Worked out that should yield around 50lbs of beans... Also prepared the two back beds for the potatoes, and will aim to get them in over the long weekend...

No sign as yet of the Jerusalem Artichokes, but the red onions seem firm in the ground which means their roots have taken...

Back at the house, have put all the seeds into their trays in the upright greenhouse, totals as follows:

96 Pea (Kelvedon Wonder, a high cropping 2' pea plant)

24 Pointed Cabbage (Hispi)

40 Celery

80 Pak Choi

80 Spring onion

Little bit of sunshine will get them all germinating.

More soon!