Start of the salad patch

The tennis court layout seems about right for the salad patch so excavation started today.  The amount of digging effort is definitely not proportional to the size of bed so, needless to say, the smaller beds are where the start was made.  We even progressed to seeding; two small rows of beetroot (not a family favourite, yet), two of two different types of spring onion and a couple of radishes. Nothing to exciting but hopefully the start of the successional planting.  Half of the long carrot bed has been dug and planted with small rows of 3 types of carrot for scientific evaluation and the best will be planted on the other half of the bed in a few weeks time.


At home, the potting shed, ie table in the garden, took a bashing today with many of the seeds purchased yesterday being planted up in the hope of giving them a better start than directly sowing at the allotment.  It seems very harsh to plant a tiny seed of no more than a millimetre in the massive plot and expect it to produce food for the family.  The red cabbage seeds are supposed to produce cabbages of 4lbs - we'll see.  The Brussels sprout seeds come in packs of 225.  Now I am as partial to sprouts as the next man - not very, at Christmas just because it is traditional - but who on earth would want to plant 225 sprout plants.  That's not harvesting individual sprouts but whole stalks of them. Imagine the damage to the ozone layer!


Tomorrow - the boot fair.  Feeling guilty because we should be selling, not buying but it is usually a great place for planty bargains!