manage to stay on the tree we might be doing a bit better this year, and there are lots more all over it. Sloe Gin in prospect already, and it's only May! Yummy!! Plum is looking pretty good too, provided they stay on.
And in another full-on bash yesterday, I managed to transplant:
- Lettuce - Green Salad Bowl
- Lettuce - Lollo Rosso
- Lettuce - Romaine (anybody would think we liked lettuce; well, it is a mild soporific!)
- Pak Choi
- Sorrel (one of this year's finds; it's got a really sharp vinegary taste. But then with a name like Rumex acetosella it would, wouldn't it? The clue is in the acetic acid bit)
- Rocket
- Mizuna
- Stonehead Cabbage
- Broccoli
- Climbing French
- Mangetout peas
- Courgettes
In response to the hoots of derision I got last year for planting 10 courgettes, I've only planted 4 this year. Well, OK, 10 was perhaps a bit excessive! But I've got another 4 in reserve so may yet go ape on ratatouille.
I've had to build some more forts around the beans
and peas
and everything in the (now full) nursery bed
is protected too. I hate doing this but the alternative is lose everything to pigeons. Anybody got a catapult?
is protected too. I hate doing this but the alternative is lose everything to pigeons. Anybody got a catapult?
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Looks like it will be a good fruit year all round - wild and cultivated.
Hmmm, really must get a blackthorn bush!
It's all looking good Woody. I've just got in from work and am about to pop out to plant a few more peas, dwarf beans and a spare courgette I happed to have lying around - as you do! My other courgettes and a couple of squashes and pumpkins got frost-nipped the other night :(
Naughty pigeons! I have magpies hovering around my patch but I'm not quite sure what they're after! Your prison should keep them out nicely :-) Mel xx
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