The Potato Underground

Put the potato idea to bed. That is, into a bed. Both types The purple potatoes downhill from the white ones. Now the waiting starts.

Spudnic

Absolutely no evidence that the seed potatoes have some anything other than get a week older! Perhaps the weather needs to turn good first!

Spudz

Trying a new crop this year, potatos! Got a bag of Jersey Benes and a bag of Purple Heart from CRT. $10 a bag.

Currently have them layer out on the table in the green room to sprout stems. Then they go into throw garden - hopefully once the bad weather is over.

The manufacturer was Morton Smith-Dave.

A King's Ransom

This year's order with King's Seeds is:

Cucumber, Lemon
Radish, French Breakfast
Sage, Common
Cress, Moss Curled
Sugar Beet
Carrot, Solar Yellow
Cauliflower, Giant of Naples
Cauliflower, Orange Bouquet F1
Squash, Butternut Chieftain
Onion, Red Amposta
Pumpkin, Spookie
Tomato, Tommy Toe
Tomato, Beefsteak Select
Zucchini, Ambassador F1

To the grand total of $47.00 including postage.

Plant on the Shortest Day

A few weeks ago a new (sadly south facing)bed was dug. It was relatively easy to rip it the grass which came up as a large mat. The area was then dug over and left. The compost heap was sieved last week and the compost piled on the new bed ready to be dug in. Today it was dug in and two whole garlic bulbs were planted into it.

Garlic should be planted on the shortest day and harvested on the longest. A bit late on the shortest day, but only by a week or so.

Yes Peas

There was a large section of the vege patch stripped empty because the last of the turnips came out. At the back of that section are some cabbages. Now what... what to plant over winter in the hope of anything, and it cannot be brassica?

Well, in went some peas. Soaked overnight and then planted out about 24 hours later.

The last loads of brassica were left in the green room too long and dried out. They'll make their way to the compost heap.

Germination and Onions

The onions have germinated. The germination rate of the cabbage and cauliflower is very bad - perhaps they got too wet?