Rabbits like to eat baby plants. Great for them, not so great for us! Today we 9 dug a trench a spade head deep, a spade head wide, 120m long between the polytunnel and the wooded area on the North side of the site to join it up with the existing fencing at either end. The fencing wire will be curved along the base of the trench and back-filled with soil to make it really hard for the little critters to dig under it. The fence itself will be assembled this week.
More asparagus crowns were planted and some of us even got to take a couple of left overs home. Thank you very much to all that came down in the hot hot April heat. As Laura’s boyfriend Dave would say a good Job jobbed!
Friday April 15th
Today Laura has sown Carrots, Beetroot, Turnips, Radish, Rocket and Peas! These here packets are all the seeds left to sow. The broad beans and onions are sprouting!
Tuesday 12th April
Asparagus crowns planted today! We bought crowns that are quite advanced( in their growth, I’m not sure they could do an IQ test…) You normally can’t harvest asparagus until its 2nd or 3rd year but Laura thinks we might get a cheeky taste of our own this time next year! So when you’re tucking down into this years steamed asparagus with butter melting over it, just think about how good it will feel to have and taste fresh from our farm next year.
Asparagus if you’ve never tried it has a similar flavour to mushrooms and is good as soup, risotto, in pies or on its own as a side dish or starter.
Thurs 7th April
Greetings FarmShare campers! The plan for today was to skin (put the plastic on) our polytunnel but when we opened the package we found it to be white rather than clear nooooo!!! The company had sent us the wrong plastic! So we instead cracked out our tool belts and tape measures and complete with pencils behind ears, made a start on the door frames.
We decided to make them stable door style so they can open at the top to allow air to circulate whilst keeping the heat in out or open completely to allow anything big to be brought in or out. And any combination in between! Air flow is especially important in the summer otherwise the poly tunnel can get full of condensation and mildew can take hold of our precious plants.
Our polytunnel allows us to start crops early in the season before they are planted out to give them the best fighting chance outside and grow lots of yummy salad throughout the year by harnessing the sun's warmth.
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