Sunday 12 June 2011

More planted (including 2nd batch of beans)

Spent the morning at the allotment (weather: bright, warm, light breeze) and planted out:
courgettes (1x gold rush (yellow skinned), x3 black beauty (green skinned)) I had 2 spare so planted these on the compost
squash x4,
leeks x5 rows of 10,
sprouts x7 plants,
sweetcorn x14,
runner beans x8
french beans (x6 climbing green, x6 green, x6 purple)
The beans have been covered on netting (as have sprouts) and sprinkled with slug pellets. I hope this time they don't get eaten.

The allotment is looking really full now, no room for much else to go in. This is the fullest I've ever had it!

I harvested a cabbage and handful of strawberries :)

This afternoon it began to rain - perfect timing!

Friday 10 June 2011

Tomatoes need moving on

My tomatoes are still at home & should really be up at the allotment in the grernhouse, so tonight I'm potting up as many as I can & will get them installed this weekend.


Fungi in my pots

I have a collection of this fungi growing in my courgettes, squash and gourds. I had some of this at my old allotment in Jesmond, I'm the horse manure which was spread under my raspberry plants.

Using my river cottage book on mushrooms & fungi I've identified this as Cup fungi, from the Peziza family. This is a poisonous variety, because it always grows on soil.

I originally wondered if it was Jelly Ear, but his grows on dead tree branches, not bare soil.

Thank you John Wright (whom I've actually met), for your informative book!