Chris and Steve’s Weblog - City Chickens

The rain didn’t arrive but when I looked out of the window at seven am this is what I saw.

and a little later

It was Roy’s 50th birthday today so we all met up for a pizza.

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Just a short visit today as we were having Libbie. In the lean to I sowed two rows of raddish, red and white, and a pot of spring onions.
Rob set to and made two cages with the panels we were given yesterday, one for the brassica bed and one for the salad bed. They are […]

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Today we were given six roots of rhubarb Victoria by a chap called Bryan who is vacating the plot at the back of ours. He also gave us some wire cages we can use to keep the pigeons off the plants, a few planks for laying between the beds, as well as a few bean poles […]

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This evening I planted the remaining rhubarb in the prepared bed but am not sure whether its the Timperley Early or the Champagne that has survived. We also bought another root from Wilkos for £1.50. It was called Red Canadian. Ken Muir refused to refund the cost of the one we lost and asked for […]

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Rob planted fifteen potatoes British Queen on plot 17 while I just pottered about doing a bit of hoeing and weeding.
British Queen is described as a superb flavoured mashing potato originating in Scotland. In Ireland it is known as “Queens”. It is fairly susceptible to blight but matures quite early. The flowers are white with yellow […]

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Another fine day so we went and finished the sowing in the new seed bed. 36 Parsnip Hollow Crown and a row of Carrot Autumn King.
Next we sowed 25 Cauliflower All Year Round and 10 Cauliflower Graffiti, all that was left from a packet of 30 because the rest fell through the bottom of the packet on to the […]

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Today was fine and the allotments were busy. We had a list of jobs to get through and the sun broke through the clouds early on to help us along.
First job was to dig over and lime the bean trench, the new brassica bed, the sweetcorn bed and the salad bed. Then we dug over […]

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The Quince at the side of the house looks lovely at this time of year. It is a very old plant and just one survivor from a hedge that used to run up between the houses at the front. The original plants came from the ex Mother-in-laws house about thirty years ago.

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Sowed two more cucumber Lemon, tomato Totem and tomato Dombito to replace seedlings lost. I shall need to buy more cucumber seeds as the Sunsweet and Burpless have keeled over and they were the last ones from last year. Next year I shall sow the cucumber seeds later in the year.
The weather has turned really […]

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Pictures show a view accross our plot 8 looking towards Jim’s green tunnel, our shed on plot 8, and a virtual blank canvas on plot 18 before we planted the potatoes.  
 

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