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Bloody pigeons!
Bloody pigeons, nibbling at the radishes. B*stards! Yeah, I know all pigeons look the same, but I bet it was the one who sat on the roof watching us plant them in the first place.
Luckily, many have survived unscathed. The leeks, onions, carrots, parsnips and runner beans are starting to poke through too. I never imagined I’d be so keen!
Tags: pests
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May 21st, 2008
More seeding…
More seeding today (after a lunchtime walk to the Durham Ox in Orston).
- A random mix of lettuces
- Runner bean (Sun Bright)
- Parsnip (White Gem)
- Carrot (Giant Red)
- Beetroot (Sanguina)
The carrot and beetroot were also from The Real Seed Catalogue. I do wish we’d been more organized, as the Real Seed Crew had run out of a few things that we wanted. Next year I hope we’ll order earlier, so won’t be relying as much on the local garden centre…
Tags: beetroot, carrot, lettuce, parsnip, runner bean
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May 5th, 2008
Sowing seeds (late)
Due to other distractions, we’re a bit late in sowing the first seeds in the veggie patch. But these are now in:
- The first of four rows of onion (Bedfordshire Champion)
- The first of three rows of leek (Long de Mézières) from The Real Seed Catalogue
- The first of three rows of mixed radish
We’ll sow subsequent rows every two weeks. Fingers crossed!
Tags: leek, onion, radish, sowing
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May 4th, 2008
Smelling of lavender
It’s day two of Project Veggie Plot. Her Kateness and I have dug over an embarrassingly-small patch of earth, about 8 foot square, and removed the European Brick Mountain in the process. This will likely be the first plot of three, as part of a three-year rotation. I’m not sure that we’re natural gardeners… is it normal to want to apologise to every worm we disturb?
And it’s caused back-ache. I ached enough to have wanted a hot bath more than I wanted a nice warm beer at The Cranmer. Yes, really.
To top it all, having grabbed the wrong bottle of bubble bath, I smell of lavender. And still ache.
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