Sowed a first row of peas - 70 Kelvedon Wonder. Spread about 500g our own woodash along the row and soaked the peas in parafin to put off mice. The ground was fleeced for a few weeks before sowing and the fleece replaced after sowing.
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Planted four rows of Charlotte early potatoes under fleece. 60 tubers in 4 rows. Also sowed a row of spinach Palco.
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Sowed first batch of Daikon radishes in plot 1a
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We rented a giant rotovater on a 50% off deal over New Year and got a week for a weekend hire. Kevin heroicly rotovated our garden and the one next door we are taking over
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November seems to be the month for orchids to put out new flower shoots. We now have three of ours putting out new shoots.
Orchid flower shoot
Orchid flower shoot - slightly out of focus
Orchid flower shoot
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We lost all our asparagus due to very cold spring and neglect so trying again! Autumn planting is unsual but quite feasable, particularly here in Cornwall.
We got 10 of each and they are planted in two rows 5, 5, and 5 each alphabeticly from the bank.
Asparagus set out
Asparagus put to bed
We got ours from D.T.Brown who describe the collection like this:
Mondeo: Asparagus Mondeo is a very impressive, very early, all male hybrid asparagus which we have found produces impressive yields of juicy spears.
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Again this year the Camellia is flowering really early - end October. This is its second year and last year we put early flowering down to the disturbance of replanting but there isn’t that excuse this year.
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Update About two weeks after treatment it is begining to look like the nematodes are working. The brown patches are greening up after a quite a lot of a rain.
Original post Earlier this year we suffered from leatherjacket damage, direct to the grass roots and subsquently when badgers dug up the grass to eat them. There is no longer any chemical control available for cranefies so we are tring nematodes.
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Sowed a double row of Super Aquadulce from groseeds. Cleaned the soil more than usual and dug in a barrowful of home-made compost and a few handfuls of growmore before setting out the seeds. Sieved about 2cm of soil on top. Wetted seeds with parafin to put of mice.
Let’s see how an October sowing does…
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Dug up a couple of plants of our potatoes, which we planted back in Febuary. A mixture of sizes but all useful.
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