Much encouraged - stuff actually growing!
Planted
Outside:
Cabbage plants
Inside mini plastic green house:
Rhubarb seeds from Italy (rubarbaro)
Pumpkin seeds by daughter
Rosemary cuttings
Peas and dwarf bean spouting well. Strawberries have given up fruiting, now throwing out runners. Pumpkins sprouted - should be ready for christmas.
The poop hunt:
After much pestering of horsey types I secured a supply of manure. I arrived at the horse owners place expecting the manure to be bagged or at least in a pile - how naive. We spent the afternoon searching the fields for the nuggets of brown gold - a treasure hunt of a different kind. We had a good laugh and enjoyed the thrill of the hunt for; teenage daughter was very embarrassed and stayed in the car. Now have bags of it.
I had read up about organic fertilisers and so made a 'tea' by steeping some manure in a bucket of water. I watered the plants with the home brew fertiliser to good effect. I buried small plant pots beside each plant as advised by friend and now the courgettes have leaves.
News
It is rumoured that the rabbits are so clever that they are sitting on the nets to squash them down then nibbling at the plants that stick through.
P.S. The shed are coming!
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