My Seed Potatoes arrived on Tuesday and they need to be chitted so today I have put them out onto seed trays and put them onto a windowsill in order to start them Chitting. I have brought 6 x Potato ‘Epicure’, 8 x ‘Sarpo Kifli’, 8 x ‘Rudolph’ and 8 x ‘Markies’.
This evening I have set out my Seed Potatoes that I have already purchased on the Windowsill to chit. The one’s that I have already got are:
Today I went to Seedy Sunday, Brighton. While there I brought the following from several stalls.
Raspberry Canes x 5 – £6.00
Potatoes – £0.24 per tuber 6 Tubers of Accent, 6 Tubers of Setenta and 6 Tubers of Orla
Framberry Plant – £4.00
Seeds from Heritage Seed Library – £2 Donation
Oca Tubers – £3.50
Shallot (White) ‘Hermine’ – £2.50
Today I pricked out my Cauliflower ‘All The Year Round’ seedlings that were sown on 22/01/2017 into 9 x 9cm pots filled with John Innes No1 compost.
The Strawberry plants that I ordered from Thompson & Morgan on Sunday arrived today. The variety I brought was ‘Cherry Berry’. They came as 3 plants and cost £9.99. I have potted these into 11cm square pots filled with John Innes No.3. These have now been put into the unheated Greenhouse.
I also planted the Garlic ‘Solent Wight’ bulb cloves into 9 cm square pots filled with John Innes No.1 compost. These are currently placed in the Unheated Greenhouse but I will when I get the time take them down to the Allotment Greenhouse.
Today I sowed my first thing for 2017. I sowed my Onion’s into John Innes Seed which I put into seed trays in the heated Propagator. I decided to sow around 24 of each so I can allow for some failures. From back to front I sowed the following: Onion ‘Ailsa Craig’, Onion ‘Bedfordshire Champion’, Onion ‘Exhibition’ and Onion ‘The Kelsae’.
Mark Allotment 2016 - 2017 