Gardening blog
Week forty five November 4th - November 11th
2006
Friday 9th November 2006 The allotment dahlias have been blackened by frost
and the tops of those at the end of the plot (where they tend to fall over
the road) have been cut off and put into the compost heap.
The peas (sown
22nd Oct) seemed to have germinated well and I have now put sticks in place
for them to grow up.
Saturday 10th November 2006 The GreenBush courgettes have been killed of by
the frost. The ground that they have been growing in was occupied by tulips last
winter. The tulip bulbs were dug up after flowering in the early summer and have
been hanging in a netting bag (one of those that the seed potatoes come in) from
the ceiling of the shed. The ground had extra manure dug into it for the courgettes.
I’ve dug it over again today and again planted tulips there plus a couple of
rows
of
garlic. There was still plenty of muck left in the ground but I will give the
garlic
a handful of blood fish and bone as well.
Sunday 11th November 2006 Bonfires. Clean up. Moved teaberry. There are still
apples
to pick on
the large tree.
2005
My Dahlia seedling has now got it's certificate as
a new variety and is now called 'Laslett's Tequila Sunrise'. I have been
growing it for the last twenty
years and it is as tough as any Dahlia I have come across and grows really
easily.
Saturday 5th November 2005. In the past I have sown my
Autumn broad beans around the 5th of November and only in the last few years
have started growing
them
earlier. This years are up through the ground now and are being dug up and
eaten already by I don't know what. I have covered them over with pea sticks
to see if that will help keep of the thief.
Sunday 6th November Planted out the first of the garlic
2003
This week has been colder as winter approaches although we
have still had very little rain. The wind has been strong enough to dislodge
most of the apple still left on the trees.
Over the weekend (8th & 9th) I sowed more broad beans, dug up the gladioli, planted out some raspberry canes, started pruning the vine up the shed and continued to dig the muck in
2000
November 9th
Planted one row of garlic four or five inches down eight or nine inches apart
in newly double dug patch.
