Showing posts with label sweetcorn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweetcorn. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

More peas

Tonight we decided to plant yet another row of peas. While Sparkly got on with that, I watered and took some pictures.

One of many rows of peas.
A pea pod, we tried one and it was very sweet, it's no wonder most peas don't make it to the pan when being picked and podded.
Another row of peas with runner beans in the background.
In between the peas we have a block of sweetcorn.

After picking most of the strawberries the other night, this one was looking a little lonely.
The raised beds are doing well, I have labeled the veg in the picture: leeks, sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, beetroot, lettuce, French dwarf beans.

Monday, 9 June 2008

There is green stuff growing, and its not all weeds

I'll let the pictures do the talking on this one....

Our first peas

Onions starting to swell up nicely

Summer cabbages
Sweetcorn
Aubergines
Potatoes
The shed

our first strawberrya view down the plot from the shed
French dwarf beans
Leeks
Beetroot and Radish
a peep at the parsnips

Friday, 9 May 2008

Rolling rolling rolling....

No, not Rawhide, but the base area for the shed. I spent the morning getting it level and then my plot neighbour Jim informed me there was a roller somewhere on the site that anyone could use.

20 minutes later and I had found it and trundled it back to our plot. That got the base nice and level and certainly made sure it was well compacted.

The next step was to lay the concrete bas, this came in the form of old concrete fence panel bits, we have used 4 and need to dig up 2 more from the abandoned plot. This was made much easier with Jims help.

Now to wait for the shed to arrive.

On our shared plot I also dug over, weeded and raked a bed for Sparkly to plant some extra carrots in. We also planted 3 rows of 'Minipop' sweetcorn.