We got a little carried away with the planting today, ran late for lunch, then had to race over to Inverurie to buy some crop protection net, get that in place over the brassicas, find time to do the grocery shopping and still do the chores.
So, this post will have to be brief.
We planted: seven rows of lettuce (two of All Year Round, one of Catalogna, two of Belize and two of Marvel of Four Seasons), two rows of sorrel (Schavel), and two rows of radish (one of Rapid Red, one of Short Top Forcing).
We also planted out lettuce seedlings: 12 of Belize, 12 of Marvel of Four Seasons, and 12 of Vienna.
We ran out of time to get spinach in, so we’ll have to find time for them in the next few days.
The lettuce, sorrel, radish and spinach are all planted in succession at fortnightly intervals to keep us in fresh vegetable right up to late autumn. They will be joined by other vegetables and varities as the weather continues to warm.
As for the brassica netting, photos will follow in due course but we simply bent three sections of old plastic water pipe into hoops, screwed them to the wooden boards that surround that bed and then draped the netting over the top.
The netting will keep the pigeons off the kale, broccoli and cabbage that we’ll be eating for the next month or so while we wait for the early crops to come through.
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