Summer bits and bobs.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Westi, have you got a piece of metal bar, that’s a little bigger than the poles that you are building you bean frames with…if you have, or you could buy, or borrow, you can make holes by knocking the bar into the ground with a hammer and then your poles will be a lot easier to get into the ground and at a decent depth, too!

Rain all day here, what I don’t mind but, I don’t like the blustery winds that go with it…..greenhouse jobs for me, sowing the second lot of seeds, so they follow on from earlier sowings….also sowing all the Winter Brassica seed!

[Geoff]

Interesting you are just sowing your Winter Brassicas. The last few years my outdoor purple sprouting have been poor, quite a few plants dying during the Winter. I planted all mine out this week, six varieties to hedge my bets. The last two years I've grown a few in the polytunnel from a late sowing that have done well, sowing scheduled for w/c 29th June. Am I growing my outdoor plants too early I wonder?

[Westi]

Cheers OH for the advice, I did have a great metal pointy thing that I would whack everything in with, but it disappeared. But I don't think it has gone missing but been thinking & last time seen was in a bucket in the little metal sheet with the canes, but I also moved some of the fine netting I bought into there as it came in one huge piece so it is probably under that. I do recall the nightmare of trying to re-fold the netting when the wind was blowing & gave up as bus near due so bet it is under that. Will have a peek when it stops raining & I can go down which looks like Tuesday so will make it my first job to find it.