Yes... I'm confused by these reports of snow forecast for down here. Been checking Met Office and whilst it's cold overnight (-2 forecast a couple of nights) we're still getting 8-10C by day and only one day of rain on the forecast I'm seeing (edit- perhaps one patch of snow overnight on Thursday in the early hours... We shall see).
Half fill a plant tray( with drain holes) with soil. Lay the roots down and top up with soil. Water and keep damp
Thank you just did what you said
I'm a bit further South than you.
Just a tad
Normally I would bring mine into the kitchen at night but we're heading to Spain tomorrow morning for a week and while I have a reliable person to check on them and water if needed, iI can't really ask them to come over every night and bring everything indoors and then come back in the morning to pop them back into the greenhouse....
It was the longest one I could find that was actually waterproof!
Have a lovely holiday hopefully with some sun
Four trays per matt is really good, I'd probably need quite a few more for the number of trays I have. Prefer that to the paraffin heater which I bought this year, did the job but it stinks!!!
I love beetrootIt is reassuring to know that however bad food prices get over the next few months, we will be able to survive for at least a couple of years on beetroot:
Yes, that is a standard size mushroom tray that it's in.
James
Obviously man cannot live on beetroot alone. Today therefore I have been planting out onions.
Depending on how many have germinated in each cell, probably anything between six and eight hundred of them, about one third brown, two thirds red.
There's a bit of room under the fleece at the far end of that bed for a few more rows of carrots, but otherwise it's now completely full until some time around August I guess, when everything will come out and be replaced by winter brassicas.
I've been spreading the contents of the final bin of last year's compost on the beds either side. Very intelligent compost it will be, too. All of my daughter's GCSE notes went into that. Actually, it had a load of spent brood comb in that I'd recovered the wax from too. That seems to have broken down pretty well. I couldn't identify any of it when I barrowed it between the bins and the beds. I've still got about two beds' worth that need compost on for this year, but that will have to be done with the bought in green waste compost from the council.
Longer term ideally I need to make more compost myself. Each of the three bins makes around one cubic metre of finished compost which seems to work out as about enough for two beds, but then I need some for the polytunnel and greenhouse too.
James
Wow that is incredible, the onions look healthy plants. I've been watching a few clogs on homesteading in America where the focus in on soil health and composting on a large scale. Its an absolute science and really interesting. I wouldn't have thought of composting spent brood comb, what a good idea!!!! I may use my wildflower bed this year when everything has died back to grow winter veg, haven't done anything like that before but why not!!! I'd love to have the raised borders that you haveObviously man cannot live on beetroot alone. Today therefore I have been planting out onions.
Depending on how many have germinated in each cell, probably anything between six and eight hundred of them, about one third brown, two thirds red.
There's a bit of room under the fleece at the far end of that bed for a few more rows of carrots, but otherwise it's now completely full until some time around August I guess, when everything will come out and be replaced by winter brassicas.
I've been spreading the contents of the final bin of last year's compost on the beds either side. Very intelligent compost it will be, too. All of my daughter's GCSE notes went into that. Actually, it had a load of spent brood comb in that I'd recovered the wax from too. That seems to have broken down pretty well. I couldn't identify any of it when I barrowed it between the bins and the beds. I've still got about two beds' worth that need compost on for this year, but that will have to be done with the bought in green waste compost from the council.
Longer term ideally I need to make more compost myself. Each of the three bins makes around one cubic metre of finished compost which seems to work out as about enough for two beds, but then I need some for the polytunnel and greenhouse too.
James
It's great way to get rid of it once it's been through the solar melter.
Ah right , we don't have a solar melter
