April 2nd, 2009 by Rich

Why is it that most bike shops fail to have any bike racks outside? Or are we expected to drive to them?

April 2nd, 2009 by Rich

I seem to have been a little slack again and not posted for a while so this will serve as two weeks worth of stuff, I can’t completely remember when stuff was done so I’ll try to do a list of things done.

Onion sets planted – approx 100 Centurion and 50 Stuttgart Giant
First Earlies (Dunluce ) planted out approx 24 in the ground a few left overs in pots to force them early
Finished Digging the pond, lined with sand and pond liner, filled up using watering cans!
Planted a bunch of seeds – memory not too good so will post again with what we have.
Purchased some pond plants
Finished off pond by paving around it and covering exposed liner with pebbles collected off of freecycle
Sowed two short rows of early carrots
Prepared and then planted asparagus bed with 10 plants
Sowed a bed of broad beans
Planted some pansies and a load of summer bulbs
A few other bits I can’t remember!

Other stuff that has happened; the new greenhouse is rubbish and blows panels out every time there is a bit of wind. This is making it unusable, fortunately the council are trying to sort this out with B&Q. We were given a hop plant by Jon and Linda to thank us for lending of rotovator and giving them wind break netting for their fence line ~ now just need to decide where we are going to plant it. Can’t wait to get some hops off of it – beer time! Between leaving the plot last Saturday and coming back Sunday lunchtime we gained frog spawn! Thanks to some frisky frogs we now have two good size balls of frog spawn floating in the pond, really pleased with that as the pond had only been finished a week and goes to show that we got the right plants in to make it a good wildlife habitat.