The distinct lack of posts has been due to actually having a social life!
And having finally returned from what will be the last engagement for a few weeks things may return to their normal pace.
Prior to going away for our first ever weekend without the children, the allotment was given some serious attention, and was completely hoed, and french beans, carrots, swede, chard, spinach, ‘leeks, broccoli and squashes were all sow or planted so that there wouldn’t be anything suffering in small pots over the four days we were away.
I am today about to sow my last attempts at sweetcorn all three other attempts have seen the seeds rotting away in the compost, and another pack of borlotti beans which did the same as the sweetcorn a few weeks previous.
I am currently picking good flushes of broad beans and digging new potatoes and cutting salad and pulling radishes the peas won’t be long so things are beginning to look up for the larder department, which will cut down on the groceries bill in the coming weeks.
hiya
i did everything wrong with my sweetcorn and yet they are doing everything right. i got some pots made of of biodegradable stuff – not peat – that their roots could grow through – started them indoors and then put them in teh greenhouse and definately didn’t keep them too wet. in fact my watering at that point could possibly be called sporadic. And i was told by my book to keep them ‘moist’.
then once they were about 8 inches high i stuck in the ground which i’d prepared by digging down a foot and moxing it with compost. Made way more effort with these guys than any other crop and fingers crossed i’ve only lost one of nine.
remains to be seen however wether i’ll get any corn as i know the patch has mices. however my potatos are another story – no idea whats happening with them!
Started another lot off sprouting them in a jar first, and hey presto, almost 90% germination. I think that I had better stick to it again next year.
The Sweetcorn block down the allotment is a little uneven in stature as after mentioning to one of the old boys how disapointed I was especially as Sweetcorn is the Tallest’s favourite vegetable, he presented me with about a dozen good sized plants as he said he couldn’t see the Girls do without their favourite things. I am always continually surprised by their generosity and thoughtfulness. Although the digs about being Organic haven’t stopped lol!