Soil therapy!

Well I've had a right old day of it today!

So when we arrived home I pushed open the front door, ignored the kids, the dog, the cat, threw my bag down and grabbed the seed tin and went straight out the back door and over to the greenhouse.

I was out for an hour messing with compost, plant pots and watering cans. Writing seed labels (this time with a different pen!) and planted lots and lots and lots of seeds.

Sorry about this but I'm going to do a very boring list of them so that if by some miracle I'm still keen on this allotment lark next year I can look back at this blog and use it as a record of what I grew etc.

I hope I remember to add to this as I go along as we have YET MORE seeds to plant and some to go straight into the ground, PLUS the 7 varieties of potato I have ready to go in ASAP.

Vegetables

Broad bean - Aguadulce

Courgette - B. Forest

Tomato -San Marzano and Bejbino F1

PSB - a freebie from T&M

Chives

Calabrese - Autumn Spear

Celeriac - Giant Prague

Parsley - Moss Curled

Cauliflower - All year round

Cucumber - Marketmore

Borlotto bean - Lingua Di Fuoco

Brussels Sprouts - Fill Basket

Dwarf french bean - Tendergreen

Pumpkin - Jack be little and Atlantic Giant

Squash - Yellow bush scallop and Spaghetti

Chillies - Friggitello, Scotch Bonnet and Yellow bumpy

Flowers

Marigold - Tagetes patula

Nasturtium - Jewel mix

Cosmos - Sensation mixed

Verbena bonariensis

Cowslip

Teasel

Sunflower - Skyscraper

Lupin - Russel Strain Mixed

Sweet Pea - Royal family mixed and 2 other varieties that the packets are still in the greenhouse used as labels so I can't type their names here right now.

I also have a load of Dahlias and Hollyhocks to start off in some compost too, before this gorgeous weather breaks all ready for when it snows next week!  Ha ha, I'm JOKING, well, I hope I am!

Did I mention we had our first cooked meal at the plot last night? Bacon baps and hot dogs was on the menu. I don't think we'll get more adventurous than that but it was lovely. Our very own patch of countryside was so relaxing in the evening. No noisy posh gardeners with their leaf blowers, sit on mowers or petrol powered hedge cutters to hurt our ears, just birds singing and the evening sunshine keeping us warm for our evening picnic tea.



Thanks for reading

Love Claire. x