I'm unfortunately having to swap blog sites because my old site suddenly wants to charge me quite a lot of money to blog with them. I have copied all of the posts in relation to my current plot but I've lost all of the blogs from my old plot. I do like, however, that on this blog page I can put more than one photo into the blog :-)
Moving on though, I can't believe how long it's been since I last blogged - it's been busy at work and on the plot! I had the final round of judging last Friday but unfortunately I didn't know they were coming and I was super busy at work so some of my pots looked a bit wilted when I got up there yesterday. I also had the b*&#%^d squirrel eating my sweetcorn so there were 4 stripped cobs on my plants which were not only heartbreaking after working so hard to get them growing but also looked horrible for the judges to see! I also wasn't able to finish the woodchips on the paths because GP Gills had been closed for 2 weeks - so that's a bit frustrating!
Anyway, onward and upwards. I have been and created a net cover so I'm hoping that will stop the squirrel from eating the rest of the corn. I've also planted 2 potato bags with my winter potatoes which hopefully will be ready for Christmas. I decided to put them in bags to protect them from the frost and I've also put them right by the polytunnel door so I can easily drag them inside once we get closer to frosty weather!
I also used my little BBQ for the first time today, I bought it from The Range for just £6 in their sale and thought it was a bargain! Mostly it will just be me so there's no need for a big BBQ, the only downside is that it's really close to the ground so I have to bend over it, which feels a bit dangerous to me (being super clumsy!)
I took a Slimming World burger and sausage and had salad from the garden with it - how lovely is that? You cannot get any fresher than straight off of the plant and onto your plate. The tomatoes are soooo tasty too; you literally cannot buy tomatoes that taste like home-grown ones.
Now that judging is finished I'm going to lift my potatoes, the King Edwards plants looked great so I'm hoping for good things but the Maris Piper's never really seemed to take off. My neighbour thinks that there'll be loads of tubers and all the work has been done underground but I'm reserving judgement. I'll be super disappointed though to not get a good crop after managing to avoid blight. I have noticed a few dug up spuds, which I think is the handy work of the b*&#%^d squirrel again!
On the plus side I'm off work all week and although it's Big L's birthday on Tuesday and Mr L is planning to go mountain biking tomorrow and next weekend I will get to finally finish my paths and spend some time just relaxing at the plot. I'm also starting to plan what I'm going to grow over the winter in the polytunnel (which is very exciting) and start thinking about my rotations for next season. I am considering moving the flower bed to next to the shed so that I can see them better and then the three beds at the top and the two at the bottom will be the rotation beds. I may still make one of those bottom beds into an asparagus bed but I haven't made a final decision on that yet.
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