Tuesday, April 28, 2009

lots of inside work - variable weather

Lots of rain recently and quite cold and windy. Front garden weeding finally done - had to virtually empty two of the front garden beds because of rampant couch grass, geraniums and euphorbia. The next potato bed is ready to plant, with a third yet to be de-turfed. The early potatoes in the first bed are coming up really well now.
sown:
alyssum and more cosmos
pricked out:
green basil, marigolds, more rainbow chard, white annual lavatera, echinops ritro
potted-on:
runner beans, haricot beans,
planted out
green basil, lettuce 'feuille de chene rouge' & 3 haricot bean plants (in the serre)
verbena bonariensis, alchemilla mollis, echinacea purpurea, heliopsis, stipa tenuissima, carex comens 'bronze' (into the front garden)
bought in & planted:
6 tomato plants, 2 cantaloupe melon plants, 2 cucumber plants - all in the serre
coming up:
the radishes, mixed Asiatic salad leaves, & rocket in the serre more marigolds, thrift, eccremocarpus 'strawberries and cream',

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