Finally it feels like we’ve shaken off the colder weather and this bank holiday weekend was unusually sunny for such an occasion! We’ve had a couple of trips down to the plots between us over the long weekend. Neil had a mammoth bike ride to do on Sunday morning and so I was on my own. The path on plot 97 has been in need of a good weed for some time and these last couple of weeks the weeds everywhere have gone crazy, particularly dandelions! So I did some manic weeding which then spread to outside the fence down the side and along the front also. Was quite therapeutic really and looks much better for it. The weed compost ‘dalek’ is now full to the brim!
On Monday, boy was it hot! The temperature on the car dashboard reached 22.5C which hasn’t been seen for a while! We had a productive few hours. Despite the heat and being on a triathlon training rest day Neil decided to lay some flags extending the path on plot 118. The picnic bench has been resting on pieces of slate since we got it so now it has a proper base.
Lots of the greenhouse sowings have done really well in the last week. In particular the sunflowers and tomatoes suddenly looked like they were ready for more space. Neil is away in the US for work over next weekend and I am down in London for the same week and it didn’t seem like some of these plants could wait a fortnight! So while Neil shifted the flags and wheelbarrowed some manure I potted on all of the tomatoes, Brussel sprouts and sunflowers. Neil is crazy for sunflowers. However many we grow Neil always wants to grow more! They had germinated really well so there were plenty to pot on. We now have about 20 sunflowers-Neil tells me his plan is to have four rows!
Bob has kindly agreed to water the greenhouses next weekend but we can’t wait to get back and check how things are and, fingers crossed, spend more time in the sun!
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