Sweetcorn in!
No rain yesterday! Well, at the very least it was almost pleasant by the evening, so we popped up to the allotment for a couple of hours.
The courgettes seem to have recovered a bit, and look like they are might produce some more growth over the next week if the weather warms a bit during the day. The spuds are in desperate need of earthing up, but that will have to wait a bit still. The broccoli seems to have perked up quite well over the last few days as well, though the netting cage had blown over a bit and was lying on it in some places.
Finished digging over the bit below the fruit section and we now have the Sweetcorn in as well as a couple of my Balconi tomatoes - they should be fine outside, though they should really be acclimatised for a few days. Also popped the last pair of melons into a growbag at the allotment. They are in a glass cloch made from some spare greenhouse glass and some special clips my dad gave me last year. We also planted in the redcurrant bush. The redcurrant root stock I bought earlier and planted last week looks a bit healthier now, though the blackcurrent that did look fine when in a pot looks a bit worse for wear - I guess it got a bit battered around by the wind over the last week.
Spent some time weeding again, I guess a bit like painting the Forth bridge (though yes I know they are changing the coating soon), but I figure as long as I keep doing a bit each week, I should stay on top of it.
Some people from one of the other allotments mentioned they thought it was looking good and that we’d got a lot done, which is good that we aren’t getting complaints about the state of some of the plot! I think we’ll try to tackle the next bit which has been covererd for a while before going back to couch grass attacking. That bit is next to the corn where the soil has a completely different structure to further up the plot. I also read yesterday in one of my gardening books that outdoor tomatoes have been known to kill couch grass. Now I’m not entirely sure how this works, but I think I might try planting some in amongst the couch grass and see how things go….
Oh and I almost forgot, Thompson and Morgan have 1/2 price seeds at the moment… so I bought some stock for next year.