Courgettes 2021

 

As of 5 June 2021, 'Black Beauty' variety:



25 June 2021

Actually 4 courgette plants and 2 squash - they look very similar when still young plants.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Creating my own compost 2024-2025

Image
4 January 2025 Trying out some compost created from the rotting down of plant material over the 2024 period. There advanced science at work here: basically let all of this organic matter pile up and rot down over the year and let nature and the decomposing process do the rest. Using a plastic sieve, I gather the finely-screened compost into a builder’s bucket. I then mix it with some blood, fish, and bone to create a nutrient-rich medium, that will hopefully be suited for for starting seeds, onion sets, and so on. Adding a little nutrients as shown: Before obtaining a full bucket of this stuff surprisingly quickly: So I then try out this mix to plan a few onions sets, it still being a bit early for much else. Watch this space...
Read more

Potatoes 2022

Image
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 sa...
Read more