2006 September, left Lordsmead plot and moved to new site at Hardenhuish.
2003 Overall a good start to the year but a severe drought meant that not
much grew after June/July. Sprounts for Christmas for example tasted good
but were very small.
8/5/02
Planted out cabbages, brussels sprouts and sweet corn sowed earlier
Sowed additional:
Minipop Sweetcorn
Cabbage Red Winner F1
Lettuces
Beans just beginning to
sprout roots.
1/5/02
First decent rain we have had for about 6weeks. It has been
much warmer than usual but now returned to usual
Sowed:
Carrotts, Swede Marian, turnips
and runner beans and french beans.
Planted out last spuds: Pink Fir Apple.
8/4/02
Sowed outside in half rows:
Pea Carouby De Maussane
Pea Ambassador
Parsnip Tender & true
Parsnip Gladiator F1
several sprouts and cabbages showing through as well as tips of sweetcorn
1/4/02
Transplanted tomato, some chillies and planted out Kestrel 2nd early potatoes
Sowed:
Brussels Sprout Profline F1
Brussels Sprout Peer Gynt F1
Sweet Corn Incredible F1
Sweet Corn Minipop F1
Borecole (Curly Kale) Dwarf Green Curled
Broccoli Mixed Purple Sprouting
Cauliflower All the year round
Calabrese Lord F1
Cabbage Christmas Drumhead
Cabbage Red Flare F1
Cabbage Rigoletto F1
Cabbage Gourmet F1
12/3/02
Chillies are just beginning to show first true leaves.
Sowed:
Lobelia Cardinalis Queen Victoria
Polyanthus Gold Lace
Parsley Champion Moss curled
Verbena Bonariensis
Petunia Mixed (from raffle prize seed
Tomato Alicante (1999 seed)
Coriander (2000? own seed)
Lychnis (2000? own seed)
Basil (free seed with chicken manure)
Helichrysum (2001 seed)
Paw Paw (Australia 2001 seed)
Alpine Strawberry (Australia 2001 seed)
Leek Autumn Mammoth (Marshalls 2000 seed)
Penstemenon (2000 seed)
17/2/02
Transplanted Broad beans outside under fleece and cloches - 50 of each
variety. Sowed chilli peppers indoors from saved seed 2 years old for red
jalapeno and last year's seed for red bonnet as these were the hottest.
10/2/02
Sowed 160 shallots as it had finally stopped raining
26/1/02
Sowed Broad beans indoors to get them started as it is so wet outside.
We are trying 'Masterpiece green longpod', 'Aqua Dulce' (as usual) 'The Sutton'
and will sow 'Optica' later. Sweet Peas sowed too ('Cupani' original
variety), should have been done
last October but we forgot.
Also started chitting potatoes: Kestrel 5Kg, Romano 2.5Kg, Diseree 2.5Kg,
International Kidney 2Kg, Pink Fir Apple 2Kg.
2002
Hope to actually record which seeds I sow this year so that I can decide what
to order for 2003!
Oct 01
Harvesting Raspberries - Autumn Bliss definitely the best
25/2/01
Snow! But actually not too cold. Shallots went in last week and broad
beans sowed in greenhouse as seed in ground from last year shows no signs of
emerging.
13/1/01
Replacement raspberry canes arrived from Marshalls. First weekend in a
long time when ground has started to dry out so William helped with some weeding
and canes went in.
1/1/01
The rain never seems to stop, we have had over 1000mm of rain in the last 12
months! Broad beans show no signs of coming up although garlic seems to
have survived the floods.
10/9/00
The corn on the cob has been a great success - by the time we finish we will
have harvested about 200 cobs and they seem reasonably spread out in
maturity. I can recommend Marshalls' Supersweet
2/9/00
The boys were pleased with their entries in the allotment show; Edward
had 1st for his vegetable creature and his painting, William had 1st for his
craft item and his miniature garden he also won a shield for best exhibit in his
age group. We had 1st for our garlic and 2nd for tomatoes, runner beans
and sweet corn.
13/8/00
We wait with baited breath for the corn on the cob.
2/8/00
This week we shall be mainly picking runner beans.
