A run to B&Q was in order as we needed to stock up on sowing compost and also some growbags (permanently on the 5 for 4 offer so 10 was a bit of a squash to fit in the boot!). While there we took advantage of an offer on woodstain to get some green for the fence, blue for the shed and dark red for the staging. While quickly checking to see if they had starting stocking organic liquid tomato feed again Neil managed to spot a stash of four bottles of the feed we used to use until they discontinued it last year! They were a bargain price of £3 instead of £4.50 so we grabbed them in case we don’t see it elsewhere.
The white onions were doing so well that they needed to be brought out of the greenhouse as they will be ready for planting out in the next week or so. We left them in front of the greenhouse so they had the benefit of a bit of shelter, especially as the weather has turned cooler again.
Neil was very excited this week as he had made some internet allotment purchases that were delivered. He has treated us to some new secatuers and a pruning knife and also some bits of sharpening kit so that he can give some much needed to TLC to our older tools. So despite not having long at the plot due to other commitments, Neil managed his own before and after shot.
I had the much quicker and less messy task of replanting those propagator seeds that perished last week. This included both varieties of aubergine, several varieties of chilli and our peppers. What was rather frustrating was that some of the chillies and peppers come in small quantities, perhaps only 6 or 8 seeds so I discovered that I couldn’t replant the Tasty Grill variety of mixed colour, long peppers so made do with some Long Red Marconi that we have used in a previous year. Here’s hoping that these second propagator sowings don’t suffer any casualties!
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