Break-in at the allotment!

Made a right mess of the door...

Got to make a new door now!

Trashed the inside as well..........

Pea Cage Installed

The big cage has been set up as the peas out-grew the low level net.

This makes pea picking easier as you can stand up inside the net.

There's lots of blossom on the peas......

Courgettes Planted Out

Courgette plant including watering pot and slug pellets!

Only 4 planted as expecting a prolific harvest........

Gooseberries Doing Well.

Plenty of fruit has set.....

Hope the birds don't get it........

Now they won't!

Main Crop Potatoes Banked-Up

5 rows x 10 plants = 50 Desiree,     Very lucky as all have come thru

Before earthing-up ...........

Afterwards......

EEK! Frost damage

Frost damage clearly visible on Early Potatoes













Fortunately only 15 plants out of 60 damaged. 

All the rest are OK!

Last of the peas & sugar snaps planted out

How to plant Peas ( including sugar snaps) :-

1). Pick a plot........

2). Dig shallow trenches.......

3).  Slide the pea plants from the guttering into the trench.....
(sugar snaps on left, peas on right)

4).  Bird & slug protection : netting & pellets

Quick Update.......

More peas on the way....












Courgette seeds planted.....











Anti-bird netting installed around the peas & sugar snaps.....











First wigwam in place for the French Beans















A lonely French Bean!

Sprouts & Cabbage Planted

Bed prepared for the Sprouts & Cabbage.

Room on the left for Broccoli.....

Foreground - 12 x Brussels sprouts (Trafalgar)


Background - 10 x Cabbage (Stonehead)

All of the plants are in & watered












Now covered & protected from the birds

Boad Beans Support

Step 1 - install the posts around the broad beans

Step 2 - tie rope to the posts



Step 3 - wait for the broad beans to grow!

Pea Netting Installed

As the Peas (Kelvedon Wonder) have grown to a reasonable height, the netting was installed today to encourage growth and support the plants















The plants look dwarfed by the tall netting, 0.9m high. 

Hopefully they should be soon climbing to the top!

Sugar Snap Peas Planted

Marking-out the bed

Sugar snap pea plants in one of the lengths of guttering ready to plant out.

Using the gettering has been a great success and has stopped the mice and rats eating the seeds!

Sugar snaps planted after sliding them down the guttering

L-> R : broad beans, peas, sugar snaps


Peas protected by netting and slug pellets

Early Potatoes Banked-Up

With the threat of frosts in the next few days, without any action the tender shoots will be damaged.

Earthed-up soil after using the Mantis and a rake

The finished article, with flat tops

Early Potatoes Sprouting

Rocket and Kestrel shoots are showing thru

Risk of frosts next week that could devastate the tender shoots!!!!

Seeds Planted - Carrots & Peppers

2 rows of carrots in the new raised bed

 The new seedlings are next to the carrots, parnsips & radishes planted previously

Pepper seeds - a first attempt at growing these

Chilli peppers and mixed sweet peppers

In theory they should germinate in less than a week!!!!

Seeds are shooting....

Some apples have set

Sugar snap peas are shooting

Celery

Radish

Carrots

Spring Onion