Friday was another cool day but we avoided any showers so we decided on an afternoon at the plot to start some proper planting.
The rain has left the soil a little on the wet side. It wasn’t too wet for planting although soil did stick a little to our gardening tools. It might just be a bit too wet for cultivating I’ll only find out once I start. We had beds ready tilled for planting our early potatoes so that was one of the main tasks for the afternoon.
We managed to get 6 different varieties planted, Swift, Premiere, Vales Emerald and Marilyn are all new varieties for us so we’ll have to see how they perform. We also planted some Winston and Juliette which have cropped well for us in the past. We've still got Charlotte and Nadine along with a few more Winston’s to plant as soon as another bed is cultivated.
Our early broad beans Witkiem Manita were planted out too. They were started off in cells in the greenhouse, then moved into the cold frame supposedly to harden them off, but as temperatures in the greenhouse had fallen to below 1°C I’m not sure how appropriate that was. The plants had got a little leggy waiting to be planted out but they didn’t look too bad once in the ground.
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The broad beans look fine to me. We had showers here again yesterday afternoon.
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