I was going to post this yesterday but couldn't as the site was down. Hopefully I can remember as far back as the weekend!
Saturday's job was to put the net back on the tunnel. I wanted to get this done before it got wet, while it wasn't windy and to keep pea moth off the newly planted peas. Combined with painting parts of the front fence at home and getting the back lawn mowed (both of which wanted doing before rain) there wasn't time for much else. I harvested some rhubarb, broccoli, lettuce and spinach.
I was expecting Sunday to be wet, but it wasn't, which meant everything needed watering again. The amount of water that is disappearing is frightening - about 1/2 a dustbin a day. I'm hoping the forecast of a decent amount of rain this week is right. Other than that, weeding, digging horsetail and trimming new growth off the hedges occupied most of my time. Harvested more lettuce and spinach.
Finally a bit of water to collect on Monday morning - about half a watering can full from all of the dustbin lids and trays. Better than nothing, but nowhere near enough. More weeding, trimming of grass edges and puling horsetail. Harvested a decent handful of broccoli, but most of the rest is now flowering faster than I can use it. At some point, either Sunday or Monday, I cut the grass.
Yesterday was more of the same. The tiny bit of rain we had on Sunday night seems to have caused the weeds to grow incredibly fast and it took quite a while to weed the tunnel. There is also a disappointingly large amount of horsetail popping up, including in the part of the tunnel where I planted the cauliflowers, which I dug over very carefully beforehand. This is where the carrots were last year, and there was some horsetail in amongst, so I suppose I should have expected this. I harvested lettuce for lunch and spinach again for tea - the leaves are growing very fast and are now bigger than my hand.
By evening it had started to rain, but this morning there was again very little water to collect.
Saturday's job was to put the net back on the tunnel. I wanted to get this done before it got wet, while it wasn't windy and to keep pea moth off the newly planted peas. Combined with painting parts of the front fence at home and getting the back lawn mowed (both of which wanted doing before rain) there wasn't time for much else. I harvested some rhubarb, broccoli, lettuce and spinach.
I was expecting Sunday to be wet, but it wasn't, which meant everything needed watering again. The amount of water that is disappearing is frightening - about 1/2 a dustbin a day. I'm hoping the forecast of a decent amount of rain this week is right. Other than that, weeding, digging horsetail and trimming new growth off the hedges occupied most of my time. Harvested more lettuce and spinach.
Finally a bit of water to collect on Monday morning - about half a watering can full from all of the dustbin lids and trays. Better than nothing, but nowhere near enough. More weeding, trimming of grass edges and puling horsetail. Harvested a decent handful of broccoli, but most of the rest is now flowering faster than I can use it. At some point, either Sunday or Monday, I cut the grass.
Yesterday was more of the same. The tiny bit of rain we had on Sunday night seems to have caused the weeds to grow incredibly fast and it took quite a while to weed the tunnel. There is also a disappointingly large amount of horsetail popping up, including in the part of the tunnel where I planted the cauliflowers, which I dug over very carefully beforehand. This is where the carrots were last year, and there was some horsetail in amongst, so I suppose I should have expected this. I harvested lettuce for lunch and spinach again for tea - the leaves are growing very fast and are now bigger than my hand.
By evening it had started to rain, but this morning there was again very little water to collect.
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