After last week’s gloom, I gave myself a good talking to and got back to work.
I tackled that rubbish heap and we dug out all the weedy bits. We’ve covered it and I’m going to plant squash straight through it.
And you know how we feel about tidy!
We got the beds prepped adding compost to the raised beds and weeding, adding pelleted manure and covering the beds that had been left over winter. We won’t do that again but as Ma pointed out, everytime we do or don’t do something, we learn. This year we learnt that we need to spend some time in October preparing the beds for spring and I learnt that I prefer to overwinter garlic, onions and broad beans because it’s been good to have them growing through the winter. Although next year, I’m going to have the broad beans under cover.
In other news, the borage is finally coming up, we have gooseberries, our first strawberry flower and the potatoes are doing alright!
As ever there are things we didn’t get to, but Ma did order the shed, it’s coming on 21 April and I’m very excited.
This is the rough list for next week. The indoors stuff I hope to do in the evenings, but it’s quite a list, and I have next weekend to do it. The weekend after that, it’s shed weekend, it’s weird because it feels like I’ve been waiting forever and we’re so close now. Then’s it’s May and we’ll be really busy!
On the plot
- Cage for the blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes at the bottom of the plot.
- Sow wildflowers
- Set up the bathtub for carrots
- Sow another lot of peas
- Build shed base
- Re-sow parsley and chives
- Sow coriander and dill
- Sow more salad
Indoors
- Sow courgettes, more cucumbers and winter squash
- Pot on the cherry tomatoes
- Sow more cherry tomatoes and the amish paste ones.
On the wheel 
Miss T and the ice cream! 
Josephine
Pont Alexandre III, it’s slightly over decorated…
Sore feet (that left toe looks very straight!)
Wheel
Embassy. Bought by the Duke of Wellington…
APRIL GOALS
When I talk about being a grown up, I often say that I thought being an adult was going to be about staying up late and eating as much ice cream as I wanted but as an adult I realised it was about getting enough sleep and doing the laundry.
If you are one such person, I’m not gonna get on your case about that. If you don’t want to cook, are too lazy to cook, prefer to have your food delivered every night or buy a ready meal for every night of the week. Go ahead, no judgement from me.
There are people in this country right now who are too poor to afford the electricity to run a fridge or a cooker or buy food, who don’t have a kitchen to cook in, who are too sick to be able to stand in the kitchen for more than a minute. They can’t cook, you can if you want and I’m tired of hearing you whine about it.
Indoors I potted on the Orange Banana tomatoes. They all came up and I’ve found homes for 8 of them and I’m keeping 10 for me. I’ve also sown the cherry tomatoes (Jen’s Tangerine) and potted on some of the patty pan. I’ve found homes for 3 of my spares and I’ll keep two for planting out in May. 
None of the courgette seeds came up and none of the Wautoma cukes, though the Minature White and the Boothby’s Blonde all came up and are doing well. Three of the crookneck came up with two MIA. I’ve re-sown some Wautoma’s and I’ll sow more courgettes and the Amish Paste tomatoes sometime in the next couple of weeks. Then I’ll start on the winter squash. Hopefully by August, the living room will be just a living room and not a living room/greenhouse. Theoretically, I can have a poly tunnel and a shed on the same plot but I don’t feel that I really have enough room, so until I get another half plot (can you hear that, that’s the sound of my mother shouting no….) I’ll have to manage but I’m hoping that next year, I’ll have a plastic greenhouse thing like 
The gooseberry bushes are in flower and so is the plum tree.
I think that overall the plot looks good but there is quite a bit of work to do next weekend.
