Plot 5

Potatoes arrived from JBA Seed Potatoes, Desiree & Cara, chitting in the shed until the start of April

10 /3/11 (approx) – Sowed into pots; tumbling toms, Passandra cucumbers, Jalepeno peppers, Basil, Feltham First peas, Broad Bean Witkiem Manita, Tomato Roma

16/3/11 – Dug runner bean trench, added some kitchen compost. Met Bev who was rough digging my plot!

19/3/11 – Sowed into pots; Lettuce Saladin, Celery Celebrity

25/3/11 – Sowed a row of parsnips directly into the front bed, sowed 3 quarters of a row of Feltham First peas and put some string up around them for support.

26/3/11 – Tractor day! Oh my word, what a day, used the 2 wheel tractor with rotating plough/rotavator thing to dig over the roughly dug part of the plot. Must have been half of a ten rod plot and I was sweating afterwards, still counting the blisters on my hands too! Because the area was roughly dug it was like a roller coaster ride and an effort just to keep the thing upright but after a pass or two it was a lot easier. It did a great job though, saved many may hours of work and now just need to let things settle and rotavate to a finer tilth and level it out again. Also planted a row of broad beans.

27/3/11 – Added some pea seeds to the row of pea seedlings as i think 4 inches apart was a bit too far, they should stagger the crop slightly too? Finished the row of broad beans by directly sowing, was only four or five! Put a row of Cherry Belle radish next to the parsnip row as a catch crop. The front bed is now full and it is still march – a record for me! Sowed 15 small pots of little gem lettuce.