More Sowings

Another sunny day, so another long afternoon in the veggie patch.

We emptied the greenhouse, washed the glass down, swept the floor and put everything back in neat and tidy.

All along one fence is just one very large rhubarb crown and the plum tree. The rest of the ground is just a few weeds. I did plant more rhubarb in this bed a few years ago, but the crowns all died. So we're going to plant the currants and blueberries along here.

I dug over about 10ft of the bed, ripping out loads of bramble roots. The ground is as free from weeds and roots as it's going to get for now. I added a sack of Croypost (the free council compost) and dug it in, then covered the whole patch with weed sheeting. I'll plant out the first two currants later this week.

Also sowed more seeds:
Parsnips Albion - sowed these in a trough, same as I do for carrots
Radish French Breakfast - filled a seed tray, sprinkled seeds over the top, covered with compost
Mint - sowed in the short trough
Peas Twinkle - these are an early variety. The ground isn't ready for peas, so sowing direct isn't an option. I didn't have any luck with sowing peas directly in the ground last time, so have gone back to starting them in the cell trays. 96 peas done, doesn't take long.
Melon Bardot - 2 x 3.5in pots, each with 2 seeds
Melon Sweetheart - 2 x 3.5in pots, each with 2 seeds
Tomato Beefsteak - 6 x 3.5in pots

Also sowed some more herbs:
Rosemary
Rocket
Oregano
As yesterday, 2 of each, one in the greenhouse, the other in the kitchen.

We're crossing jobs off the list, but adding more ...... hoping for a bumper crop this year!