Cold and Wet
Garden Log 10 Aug 2008:
All was silent as before -
All silent save the dripping rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
Temps for the week:
Lowest Min -1C
Lowest Max 8C
Highest Max 12.9C
Rain: 19mm
All silent save the dripping rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
Temps for the week:
Lowest Min -1C
Lowest Max 8C
Highest Max 12.9C
Rain: 19mm
Planted this week:Tatsoi ~ Diggers Seeds
Sucrine Lettuce ~ Phoenix Seeds
Phacelia ~ Phoenix Seeds
Butternut Lettuce ~ Phoenix Seeds
Strawberry Spinach ~ Phoenix Seeds
Mustard and Rocket seeds from Seed Savers
The following were planted inside:
Watercress ~ Cornucopia Seeds
Kang Kong ~ Phoenix Seeds
Purple Basil ~ Phoenix Seeds
Sweet 'Genovese' Basil ~ Green Harvest
Planted those 2 Sweet Chestnut trees in the old chook run and the Bosenberry and Loganberry with Strawberries into the wicking bed I made last week. They were planted just in time for some good rain.Filled up more wicking beds this time with the old water tanks that Doc cut up for me to use as edging.
Plastic in hole; filled-in with sand with the hose buried; tank on and topped up with good soil and compost. Now for some mulch and some compost worms. These should be just right for spring planting.
I love the way the broccoli just keeps on going after you pick the main head. If I give it a dose of liquid feed now it should keep on producing until the weather gets too hot and it runs up to seed!
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5 comments:
Broccoli is really worth the wait isn't it. I left mine to go to flower and seed and the bees were all over it. Great idea if you have the space and it benefits all the other veggies by encouraging pollinating insects.
Hi, I have grown broccoli for the first time this year. i have cut the main head of most of them. Two of them have gone to seed.After reading your Post I will leave them in position. What kind of liquid feed did you use to encourage new growth. It is windy and wet here in Ireland too but this is our summer!
This may be an obvious question Scarecrow,but I have to ask, do you place one seed per cell in your seed trays?
Hi Peggy
Either take out the ones that have already gone to seed (flowered) or leave them as Matron does to lure predator insects. If the others haven't flowered yes you should be able to feed them up to produce side shoots.
You might be able to buy a general organic liquid manure commercially over there. Ideally you could make your own if you have time.
On my side menu you'll see a link in Food Gardening for Beginners for Part 10 Tea for Plants.
If you can get a selection of those plants or compost brewing. Or worm castings can be diluted and used without brewing. Diluted to the colour of weak tea they shouldn't harm plants.
Good luck with your gardening efforts and I hope the weather improves although it's nearly the end of your summer isn't it.
Hi Spring
No I always put more than one seed in each cell as sometimes seeds don't always germinate...but sometimes I end up with way too many seedlings that way. I usually give these away or sell them on trading tables around town.
Having said that in the case of large seeds I tend to just put one each of these in...maybe two. ;)
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