The chillies and tomatoes were loving the weather today, but it was too hot to do much at the allotment, and it was touching 50 degrees in the greenhouse at times today!
I potted on all my chillies, and sowed lots, including some Papalo seeds, which is used in Mexican cooking.
I still need to dig over the other half of my plot, but that will have to wait until next weekend!
I decided to bite the bullet this weekend and plant up the rest of the broad bean and sweetcorn plants that were growing too big for the greenhouse.
This weekend’s plans were scuppered by the typical Bank Holiday weather, so the idea of moving all of the seedlings down to the allotment to be planted had to be put on hold for another week.
I desperately need more room in the greenhouse, but the temperature dropped like a stone everytime it rained or started to hail.
Today has been a bit frustrating, as I need to clear the right hand side of the allotment, so I can start making beds for the rest of my seedlings to go into.
However, today has been typical Bank Holiday weekend weather, and I think we have had four seasons in one day!
It did seem that it was a very short weekend, even leaving aside that an hour of my sleep was stolen on Sunday morning!
Saturday was spent potting on the huge amount of seedlings that had sprouted, so the greenhouse is now full. I also got a refill for the greenhouse heater, just in case the predicted snow/sleet that is forecast for later in the week arrives.
Yesterday was a very grey day, so I spent the majority of the day inside the greenhouse potting on the many and varied seedlings that had come up in the propagators. I still find it difficult to be ruthless and have to constantly remind myself that there is not room for everything that has germinated, and that I can only pot on the strong seedlings!
When I poked my head out of the window on Saturday, it looked like the weatherman was right, and that Spring had finally sprung.
With all the bad weather recently, the good lady wife and myself decided we’d try to crack on with building the structure of the allotment, so that we could get some stuff in the ground sooner rather than later.
It took two nine hour days down the allotment, but in one weekend we went from this…
Well, by the looks of the weather today, Spring may have finally woken from her slumber, and is hopefully here to stay.
We took advantage of the gorgeous, warm weather today to really crack on, and although we were down there from 9am-6pm, the time just flew by, and the transformation is astounding.
We will be back down there tomorrow, and I will post a longer blog tomorrow, together with some ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots.
Well it turned out that the weatherman was wrong, and the bad weather missed us. I realise from speaking to other people on here and on Twitter that we were the lucky ones, especially considering the amount of flood warnings around at the moment.
We finally managed to dig over the rest of the beds, so that all the spuds and onions can be transferred from the house next week to the lottie. Good job as well, because I had the rest of the seeds delivered this week, so there are plenty of seeds to take their place in the dining room and greenhouse!
Currently my house is filled with chitting potatoes, and seedlings which desperately need another home.
Achiltibuie Garden – Hydroponic Growing Kits
Dartmoor Chilli Farm
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