Planting Frenzy

Well as today was the first proper warm sunny day (with at least the next few weeks as well) I took the opportunity to go on a planting frenzy and free up some space in my greenhouse.

Planted in the allotment today:

French Beans
Red Cabbage
Sprouts
Tomatotes
Peppers
Courgettes
Celeriac
Collard greens
Kale
Pak choi

Hope I don’t regret it, but it was satisfying none the less.  Hope everyone else is enjoying a bit of sunshine.

It's definitely the time now. Most of us in the UK are moving past our last frost date now and for the foreseeable the warm weather is finally here. Only yesterday did I finally get my carrots and parsnips sown!

My kale desperately needs planting out so will have to carry on digging over more of the compacted soil in a small but long stone raised bed that used to have a layer of concrete over it. The soil is actually quite a good texture as it used to  be used for sweet peas, so all I'm doing is digging and adding mushroom compost and some bagged top soil. The higher stone raised bed was dug over in Feb and now has two small rows of sugar snaps in a supporting frame and two rows of Spring onions, plus I recently sowed two rows of carrots which are just showing and two rows of beetroot which are yet to appear. In the greenhouse my climbing French bean has been planted in one of those green grow-bag pots that's inserted directly into the soil and my sweet corn have germinated nicely and should be ready to plant in there in a month or so. My toms are also doing well and showing a few little trusses.

Marvellous!

All the pots are done, as are the trays of spinach, rocket etc.! It just had to be done now, the testosterone of all these chums was bounding around like a young thing!

Goodness knows what I'll be doing tomorrow, I'm rather bereft of ideas now...

The perpetual spinach has well and truly gone to seed but the plug plants are ready to take their place.

That was one of my jobs today as well.

Old perpetual spinach yielded one last picking, then out it came.  Small plants were replanted in another area, plus chard.

Tomatoes are now planted out, plus most of the climbing beans and all the squashes.  I had a lot of areas covered waiting for planting, so the covers came off and the plants went in.  Instant allotment ... almost 

I've even given away the 'spare' runner beans I had sown, in case the normal crop got frosted, so 'burning boats', 'crossing the Rubicon' etc., has now happened...

Just gave away my extra courgettes which I was also keeping in case of a late frost. Bridges definitely burnt