So much for new planting
Remember me planting out all those spring cabbages and calabrese plants a couple of weeks ago on the allotment?
All gone. The whole lot. Disappeared.
'Nought left.
I'd cleared the ground, I'd carefully spaced them, I'd made a net cover and put down organic slug pellets (from Growing Success) and more to the point, I'd paid about 8 for them.
Then the boys and I made a fleeting visit earlier this week to see how things were doing and they'd gone.
No evidence of the nature of their demise either.
The net was intact, the pellets had gone, the soil looked untouched – but the plants had simply vanished.
There was one soggy remnant that looked like it had simply wilted and was in the process of rotting away to nothing but the rest had gone completely.
So what did I do wrong?
Elsewhere on the plot the only remaining crop is our leeks, grown from seed and not spaced out terribly well.
I should have transplanted them earlier in autumn but didn't quite get around to it.
Now they are quite small compared to the leeks on plots around mine, as they haven't had room to spread out and grow. However I don't mind, I shall pick the smallest thinnings and use them as mini veg.
Hopefully this will give the rest a chance to get bigger as the winter progresses.
We're having trouble getting enough daylight to do much at the allotment or at home at the moment, as once school's out at it's often getting dark already.
We managed to take down some of the canes at the allotment this week to stop them getting blown away in the gales that are forecast for this weekend.
Although naturally the boys saw the whole exercise as a perfect opportunity to sword fight with 12 foot long bamboo canes.
Before old spoilsport mum had to step in with the dreaded words: "you'll have someone's eye out. . ."
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