New Vines

On Sunday i managed a few hours in the morning and got quite a lot done in that time.
I started by removing my old raspberry canes and planted my 3 new vines in that area which is just for their first year when ill decide their permanent home then.
Its the bed just in front of my shed shown here (the shed is due to move leaving a patio area for my dog pen or BBQ's).

Then in the bed just in the front of this picture i replanted two blackcurrant bushes, these will stay here until i remove a weed compost area then ill move them to there, the 3 trees in this pic are pear, plumb and apple so they will take up a lot of space when they grow.

Next i dug over the bed that the blackcurrants were removed from which ill let settle and keep raking it so its nice and ready for my peas and beans.
I have decided that my weekend job this week will be to weed the big bed on the new plot side as the grass growing there has long roots and even though i dug out a lot of it there is still a lot in there.
Then ill plant my spuds in there so its well dug over after they have been harvested.
its the top bed on the right of this picture.

I also got a nice surprise digging the bed when i came across two parsnips one rather large, i thought i had dug all these up, they were promptly eaten with Sunday tea.

And my last job was to move the strawberry runners that had now established well, these have now filled the blank spots where i had older strawberries, so my bed is all the same type.
A quick water of the strawberries in the greenhouse planted in a hanging basket to get early fruit, my parsley that has overwintered well and a Rosemary cutting then i was on my way home.
We have the yearly AGM meeting this Saturday at 11am so that will be interesting because we are being asked to manage our own site with minimal council interaction due to cost cuts.

potatoes potatoes potatoes

I have decided to go a little potato mad this year.
a plot neighbor mentioned the floods and the point that the crops will suffer this year so potatoe onion and other crops may be highly priced.
so i had the previous spud chitin and decided to buy a full pack of maris piper and 3 small packs of other spuds to get in the ground next week.
I've also got extra garlic and onions.
Also this week i had a shopping spree and bought new soft butterfly netting for my brassicas, extra glass clips for the greenhouses, epsom salts to make my own feed, and 2 new grapevines, i was given an extra one as a freeby so i got 3.
Tomorrow ill be planting the vines and moving my strawberry runners that have taken well.
light nights are coming and im getting my green fingers going again.

New Season and new beginnigns

I haven't posted on here for a while.

This was due to several things but mainly due to achieving receipt of the other 3rd of the plot which was used by an old chap called Eddie, he decided to give up as he didn't have time or effort to continue.

The plot was then handed to the next guy on the list who appeared to be a builder who decided to let it overgrow while he stored building items on the plot.

After a long wait for him to be evicted i asked the society to let me take it back to a full plot once again promising to keep it up to scratch.

So after a long process (ridiculous red tape) i received the notice my plot was to become a full plot once again.

Now this was a lot to take on due to the state of the plot, and i was determined to get it up to scratch as quickly as possible so i could turn the beds for winter weather to break down the soil.

Here is a few pic's of the before and after.

I also got planning permission to move my shed (yet to do) and build a full length cold frame behind the inherited double greenhouse.

My next big job is to move my shed to be back of this greenhouse and then to rearrange the area where it comes from for my two jack russell's to have a play whilst i work.

At the moment i have my garlic planted and im chitin my potatoes.

I'll get some seeds going soon and start off mt onions in pots to give them a head start.