Bags of stuff

Carrot bags. Potato bags. Bags of rubbish. Bags of room.

If you read this blog regularly you will remember that this plot is infested with couch grass and bind weed. It's all over the place. But last year the courgettes were in a big mound covered by weed proof membrane which has caused the grasses and weeds to rot. So now I'm sieving soil which is duly being placed into plating bags. Well out of reach of the couch grass and bindweed.

So whilst I'm doing the hard work digging and sifting, the wife is doing the hard work planting carrots. No stones. Good loose soil with a relatively high organic content means that we should have some decent straight carrots out of these bags. We now have 4 bags of them. Two are of a mixed variety whilst the other two are your more traditional Dutch orange sort.

Whilst I'm digging in the mound, I am uncovering a variety of "things" which have been left, lost, or otherwise buried in the soil over the years. Bits of rope, old seed labels, rotten plastic, old nails, old horse shoe, bits of I don't know what but they shouldn't be there. These all get fished out and put into rubbish bags.

Meanwhile we had mashed potato earlier in the week. Unfortunately I left the remaining spuds in their bag on the kitchen counter and they have sprouted eyes and seem to want to grow. So I though "why not?" So there are now two more bags added to the Maris Piper and Charlotte spud bags. These contain Red Russets. Don't know how viable they are, but it's better than just binning them.

In the greenhouse, there are plants which have grown too big for their seed trays and need potting into separate pots. These are the Pumpkins.

It seems there are more in the greenhouse which will need a little attention soon.

But not today. Tomorrow is a big day (Shop Duty and AGM). Will have to see what becomes of it all.