1 April 2006
Stuff to do
We’re going to Lucca a week on Tuesday for what I am sure will be a truly wonderful holiday. Before then, however, we have ridiculous amounts of chores to do. Here’s what allotment business needs doing:
- Negotiate with our neighbour to see if she would be willing to part with the unused bricks in her garden so we can use them down the allotment.
- Cover the remaining rotovated soil with black plastic and secure with said bricks.
- Plant out ‘reserve’ broad beans, given that the mice seem to have enjoyed all that I sowed in February. Sow further broad beans in pots. I would hate to have a year without broad beans.
- Pop to garden centre to pick up more peat free compost and a couple of lengths of guttering. Sow peas. Seek out suitable twiggy pea sticks.
- Plant out seed potatoes before the sprouts on them reach their way out of the spare room, up the stairs to our room and strangle us in our sleep.
- Plant out onion sets.
- Prepare asparagus bed.
- Resist the urge to order yet more seeds. I have plenty. Really.
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 6:18 pm
Buy more seeds, go on. It won’t hurt. I dare you to buy as many as I have. Though to be honest i’ve needed them. Most of my first attempts failed miserably.
(01.04.06 @ 8:38 pm)
You are a very bad influence, Mr not-so-WiZeR! Don’t you know I’ve got an organic chocolate habit to sustain as well?
(01.04.06 @ 9:30 pm)
It’s so tempting just to buy more seeds all the time though! it’s so easy to pick up a new pack. Very much like pokemon though, you can always trade them with friends! Have a lovely holiday!!
(02.04.06 @ 8:16 am)
I agree - a year without broad beans would be a tragedy. I luv em too. Have a nice trip.
(02.04.06 @ 5:13 pm)
Al - Yes, it’s a bit like buying books. When I buy a book I imagine that somehow all the wisdom it contains will magically be transmitted into my mind without actually having to read and digest it. With seeds, I feel as though simply buying the packets will transform my garden / allotment into something worthy of an RHS gold medal. How deluded am I?
Alissa - Indeed, broad beans are definitely my favourite vegetable. At least, most of the time. Pretty flowers too.
(02.04.06 @ 7:16 pm)
The way I see it, buying too many seeds is about as low on the vice scale as you can possibly get. They’re not fattening, environmentally damaging, expensive or something you have to find storage space for. I have to say, though, that I find the selection available at garden centres to be painfully dull, so I order most of mine through catalogues.
(04.04.06 @ 3:41 pm)
Muppet - You’re right. Can you tell my bank manager that?
(04.04.06 @ 5:32 pm)