Plot 30

  "Salad Bowl" planted 27 March 2022

 A single row of "Tender and true" planted 20 March 2022: And sown today (3 April 2022) some free seeds ("Sabre F1")  from the same D.T. Brown, this planted nearer the fruit section.

Using seeds saved over from 2021 (see last year's blog post ).  I set these in my garage in a deep seed tray, with a light source and heating pad underneath ( 19 March 2022 ). 28 March 2022 The beginning of the Borlotti beans just starting to poke through.  3 April 2022 They seem to like being under the light source and small heating pad... 21 April 2022 Training some of them up wigwam poles.  Some still left in the deep trays as spares... An update from 23 June 2022 beans are now going great guns filling out nicely, with "Black Beauty" courgette plants interspersed between.

Some seeds set off from a packet I've had unopened for two years(pic from 4 March 2022) These were set off in the ground on 18 March 2022 as shown: And some seeds set off using seeds saved from 2021 (documented in this post .) Pic dated from 13 March 2022. And the same plants after hardening off outside for a week (taken 20 March 2022) Which were then added to the existing broad beans on the plot Update 2 May 2022 Update 19 June 2022 Update 23 June 2022.  Broad beans starting to thicken a little

Three rows of Swift earlies, planted 18 March 2022.  First row planted using Old Alabama Gardener's technique of placing a small amount of fertiliser & bone meal alongside the seed potato, covered up with some compost.  Second row planted as per the first row minus the compost, third row as per the first but with horse manure instead of compost.  Also in the third row I split quite a few of the seed potatoes.  One concern I have is that I may not have waited sufficiently long enough for them to sprout ("chit") before I had planted them.  We'll see. And a little further up the plot, a further three rows of Charlotte second earlies, using seeds saved over from 2021: Planted in 3 lots of trenches containing 11 seeds also with compost, bone meal and Growmore fertiliser added: Also planted in this section: late potatoes of variety Golden Wonder and Desiree (saved) - three rows of each, thereby occupying the remainder of this half of the plot.. Also some other saved se

Some cloves planted earlier this year that I've saved and planted at the front of the plot (29 December 2021) that when split up gave four big cloves to plant on in total: Planted the same day: Update 13 February 2022 Found in my cupboard this morning was another whole elephant garlic bulb containing a further five large cloves which I will plant in the same row as the existing ones: