11th/12th June 2022 - Canes, Corn and Construction
The tomatoes are growing fast and therefore canes are going in. Desi has also worked out a way of creating some troughs around the tomato plants to make watering easier. So it is all looking good on the tomato plot.
The grass is approximately 8 weeks old now and it is beginning to knit together nicely. There are some weeds also coming through, but we’re picking those out as soon as we spot them. Some bindweed has also found its way into the grass next to the bricks under the terrace there, so careful monitoring of that situation. The last thing we want is an infestation of that particular plant.
9pm on these photos, the long summer evenings are a delight, and warm! Can you believe it? The slugs have found their way under the terrace and come out of these bricks during the dusk. A bit like the snakes in that movie with Indiana Jones.
Planting in the new plot is happening. Having dealt with the courgettes in front of the potatoes, and planted / positioned the sweet corn, the final planting of the three sisters trio, the butternuts are next up!
We left in the final Kale plant (small tree)… although we’re not sure what it is going to do next. We aren’t planting in this spot yet, so we’ll wait and see.
The compost bins are beginning to look nice. The sweet peas have been tied up so they train up the pallets. We’ve reused an old bin we’ve scavenged as a water butt, and everything else appears to be growing well in the very warm weather.
The Jerusalem Artichokes have filled up the gap between the polytunnel and the compost bins perfectly and it is really nice to see all the infrastructure that we have created filling up nicely.
