Plottery

[muninnhuginn]

Went off at seven-ish, since it looked like it was about to rain. What have they done to the rain? It never came. So the whole idea of planting just in time for the seeds and seedlings to get a good natural soaking fell, unlike the rain, rather flat.

Still, we dug. We planted:

• another tomato seedling: dinky yellow ones this time
  
• two dwarf beans
  
• baby corn
  
• peas
  
• radish
  
• spring onions
  
• beetroot.

Then we attempted to really get to grips with the worst patches of bindweed. It got dark. Due to our proximity to the floodlighting for the playing fields beside the Abbey Pool, we didn't notice. At nine, when it had gone quiet as well as dark, we went home. At least digging at that time of day avoids sunburn.

In two weeks we need to repeat some of our planting, i.e. more radish, spring onions and beetroot, plus the sweet basil.

All we need to decide now is what to do with the remaining four fifths of the plot!

And it was so much more peaceful without the constant whinge of Looby Loo getting bored.

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[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Remaining four-fifths?

Wow!

Perhaps it's time to start in on melons and squashes and other plants that like to take over vast tracts of land?

Have you put in any lettuces yet? Other greens? Or aubergines? Not that they take up much room.

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[muninnhuginn]

More greens, yes. About to order some more of the oriental ones that stir fry so well.

Lettuces, no. Squashes, no. These are the things that get eaten least readily from the organic box.

Melons I hadn't thought about, but I might now.

Most of the remainder is going grow black plastic until the autumn when I can put the strawberries, raspberries, and red and white currants in.

Yes, it's really quite big: genuinely larger than a lot of folks' back gardens.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

So you've got it for more than the summer?
In that case - asparagus!
And more rhubarb, of course.

Squashes are fun - but yes, they do tend to become terribly common, come midsummer, and yes, now that I think about it, I do seem to recall your having had a superfluity already.

What about decorative gourds?
Or more varieties of climbing beans - like the scarlet runner bean, which has pretty flowers and produces a nice broad bean?
Or maybe some 12-foot-tall sunflowers, just because?

Our plot?

[muninnhuginn]

Yup, we basically have it just so long as we stump up our 13 quid per annum. There're obscure 19th century laws about not being evicted during the growing season, too.

Looby Loo has already planted the sunflowers, rather randomly it has to be said.

What I need to find out is if we have any chance of growing sweet potatoes.

Re: Our plot?

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

Sweet potatoes. ::pauses for thought:: They can grow them in the 'mercan South and Pacific Northwest, so they ought to work there, too, I'd expect. Long growing season, though - so, the sooner the better.