Rain forecast for tomorrow . I want to get all of my vegetable and flower seedlings planted out and let Mother Nature do the watering .
So here we go , weeds into the orange wheelbarrow . Primroses and lovely red Gladiola bulbils into the pink wheelbarrow , to be rescued and planted out somewhere else in the garden . They have just self sown and spread and I haven't the heart to move them ; but now I really need the space to plant my Short French Beans .
That was quite a big and heavy clump of Primroses there !
So it's going to be Short French Beans "Slenderette"on the left hand side , Tall French Beans " Blue Lake " or "Cobra"🤔 are already planted in the middle and Sweetcorn on the right hand side . Checked the chicken-wire is secure around the bed .
Primroses carefully saved in the pink wheelbarrow . I went in to have a spot of lunch and leave the teaming ants nest that I disturbed for the birds to clean up .🐜🐜It was a huge nest with millions of eggs ! 🐜🐜🐜🐜 I will put an upturned flower pot in there and when the ants have moved in I will relocate it on my shovel to another location .🐜
I threw down some chicken pellets and raked it in , although I did really prepare and replenish this bed over the winter months with a lovely heap of leaves , grass clippings , seaweed etc
I put a really useful paving slab in the middle to make harvesting easier .
These propagating boxes with these long root training pots are brilliant . I think they are called "Garland Deep Root Propagators ". They do have a cover , not shown here , which I found particularly useful as we did have a mouse in the shed , that was rather enjoying dining on all my seedlings .
🐁It was very interesting that it ate all my lettuce seedlings , but didn't touch the Pak Choi ! 🐭
They open up easily so that you can take out the seedlings without damaging the roots ,which being allowed to grow longer , makes for much stronger and healthier plants .
Then spent an hour hanging upside down again planting them out .
Got dizzy and in the end sat down on the useful paving slab to do it , which , as it turned out ,was also not such a good idea ...but I did managed to extract myself eventually , without falling over .
Me .....feeling dizzy ....but very pleased with myself !
I just had a little energy left to get in and plant out my Sweetcorn "Swift" .
I am a little bit disappointed that only five germinated . I might sow a few more , but it is late now I think .
I planted them in a block to aid pollination . I make note of these things , both on this blog and also in my little red garden note book , so that next year , I can look back and see how I did things .
It also helps me understand where I went wrong and which things were successful .
I still have another batch of the Tall French Beans to plant out . Need to find some more canes for a frame .
I might just squeeze these in with the Runner Beans ....any reason why not ? 🤔
Not sure if you can see , but I made a little bit of a trench either side of the bean frame to help channel the rain water to the roots of the beans .
I stood up to stretch out my back . Husband did a great job of tidying the labyrinth !
I too use my blog and a note book to refer back, it's good to have a reminder of what when where and how they did. We are forecaste to miss most of the rain again, whichbis worrying.
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