First planting

A couple of weeks ago, we were given a redcurrant bush, which has now gone in the middle of the soft fruit area. A few of the plants down there are beginning to sprout leaves, and they look a bit like raspberries, which'd be nice. There were also rumours of gooseberries, but no evidence as yet.

Thanks to various ad-hoc digging expeditions, the first area is now mostly dug over and de-rooted, so it's time to put some things in!

The area nearest the camera has got seed potatoes in, Second Early Maris Piper to be precise.

The area on the far left has leek and spring onions seeds in rows at interesting angles. The rest is only roughly dug, and not so thoroughly weeded yet.

Jeremy bought some other seed potatoes too, which are mostly being chitted (put them in the light, in the cool and wait for the sprouts to reach a few inches or so) in our garden shed. The Maris Piper earlies already had decent sprouts on them, so we thought they were worth planting.

We filled a few seed trays with compost too today, and put seeds in: brussels sprouts, carrots, lettuce, broccoli and parsnips.

That just leaves the remaining seeds as courgettes (plant Apr-Jun), Sweetcorn (Apr-May), the coloured dwarf beans (Apr-Jun), Spinach (Mar-Sep), and the other lettuce (Apr-Jul). There are also some more carrot seeds, so they can be planted in a few weeks, to get a 2nd crop.

Finally, having heard how hard onions are to grow from seed, we bought some onion sets. They're not in yet, but some time in the next couple of weeks would be good...