I was hoping for BBQ weather sunday, we got the Sun in the end shame about the 35mph gusts of wind!
Still undeterred by the fact even a shed was blown over on the allotment a few rows over I started by helping my plot neighbour dig over his old strawberry patch, this involved me *Cough* 'saving' 70 odd runners (no idea of the variety) to expand my Strawberry bed to almost 100 plants. I planted them in and afterwards gave them a sprinkling of Blood, Fish and Bone (BFB) along with a decent soaking, I am pretty sure they are a little closer together than they should be but time will tell.
Here we can see my other reason for being down the allotment today, I planted out the first 80 Peas (Kelvedon Wonder) I have another 80 at home to put out next weekend and I also sowed in the ground approximately another 100 in this row. I was going to sow 80 peas followed by 5 more sowings of 80 successionally at home but they take up so much space and the weathers turned now so I am risking it direct sowing.)
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I did uncover a first early potato by accident earlier in the week and that was throwing off roots nicely so the soils definetly warmed up considerably in the past week which is good news. I will do another line of beetroot soon and direct sow some lettuce as my transplants in the bed at home don't seem to be taking well.
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