Hello all
Have been lurking on the old thread but weather has been rubbish here so not much plotmenting happened last week.
Spent the morning up there tho. Everything we planted is growing really well. Lost the odd tiny cucumber and a couple of french beans I bought as plugs that didn't look brilliant anyway and everything else seems to be doing ok. Will upload a few pics as seperate posts as they take ages to.load.
Today I have planted another 18 sweetcorn out, and set some mange tout, more peas and spring onions off at home. I am too novice to know whether stuff coming through is friend or foe so using those biodegradable pots in a seed tray with a plastic lid on for the first few days.
We also moved a load of stuff down the bottom for a bonfire, probably on tuesday after dp has done work.
I think we are going to have to resort to some weedkiller on the bottom half. It's not been worked for 4 years and some of the weeds are as thick as my wrist. We won't be growing on it this year anyway. So plan is to strim again, then apply weedkiller directly to the worst of the brambles and nettles, then cover. The far bottom will be the chicken run so no doubt they will maintain it anyway.
And I think some lettuce plugs I bought are almost ready! Very excited.
Things on my to do list include building a brassica cage for late autumn/winter veg, building a little run to attach to baby chicken house so we can have a few chooks, finishing burning all the inherited weeds and getting our strimmer serviced.
Plus building the shed and a compost bin.
I also need to sit down and work out how many more raised beds I will need and where they will go. Atm they have just been put in anywhere we could get them as we had stuff ready to go in and a limited amount of plot ready to work.
I need to be careful not to tie up beds with winter stuff if they aren't in the right place.
But am very happy with our 4 weeks work!