Sunday 17 January 2010

2010 - New Year, New start

Hello.

I am determined to properly update this thing this year so hang on to your hats, it will be a roller coaster ride. The first visit to the lottie this year, for me anyway happened in lovely winter sunshine today. We spent the afternoon tidying up the fruit bushes and trying to protect the brassicas from the bloody rabbits. They have managed to get into the site and blimey are they hungry. They have scoffed all the leek tops clean off and had a go at the PSB (purple sprouting broccoli) normal broccoli and our single sprout plant, without any sprouts. The PSB i think will be fine, its as tough as old boots and i am sure will bounce back ready for us to scoff within no time.
We put the old tomato house over them to try and protect them a bit. Simon and I can't stand to hurt the bunnies so a physical barrier is the way forward.

Plans for produce this year are formulating. I am going to try and do a proper cut flower bed this year with lots of pretty flowers ready for the house. The trick is to get a succession of flowers from early summer to autumn. I have an ever-growing list of flowers and when its finished, I will post here.

Veggie plans are also coming on. We have been over-run with pumpkins this year so will concentrate more on butternut squashes and just grow a couple of pumpkins for fun. We will grow many pumpkins, sweetcorn and a few salad leaves together with about a million onions as we eat loads of them.

I am going to try and get a few chillies going nice and early this year so I have "peter" chillies, that look like tiny willies apparently and also "rainbow" chillies which are purple. They will be sowed and popped into the airing cupboard to get them warm enough.

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