Repairing the damage

So we have totally lost the Courgettes. But the Crown Prince only appear to have suffered damage on the outer leaves of some of the plants. Yes, some are completely dead, and one seems to have been the victim of a cut worm, but a couple of the plants are sprouting new small leaves which means that the damage is not as bad as we initially thought.

Even so, when I reported the failure earlier in the week, I immediately started looking online for replacement Crown Prince seeds, only to find that there were none to be had. Steve from the Seaside Allotment Channel, offered to send me some replacements which I gratefully accepted. If you have not been following Steve, then you are really missing out. This is somebody who is relatively new to the allotment, but who has taken to it like the proverbial duck to water. He is doing stuff the likes of which you would find in commercial Market Gardens and the sheer amount of food that he turns out is absolutely astonishing.

Anyway, our day started off with the Divine Miss Vulpine turning up, despite the amount of people who were on the plot.

We re-planted the courgettes with some of the spares we had in the greenhouse.

Meanwhile is was transplant time for a number of other plants. The Wife did the Petunias, and a donated flowers (not sure what it was) and I later re-potted the Chillies.

We also had a damn good clear out of the 2nd greenhouse, as this will later be used for the above mentioned Chillies and the Two remaining Cucumbers. It definitely looks a bit cleaner compared to the last time you saw it.

I've nipped the seed heads out of the Pak Choi as they were starting to reach for the skies a bit. Oh and got rid of another of those pesky snails which were munching on our produce. But there are plenty of leaves on them still.

Whilst cleaning it out, we came across a few tubs of old beans. Since we also lost our beans in the previous cold winds, we took this opportunity to re-sow. We also planted out all the sweetcorns. Sine we've had to split the sweetcorns across two beds, I'm going to try a little experiment. I've dropped a few peas into the base of each plant in one of the beds, and beans into the base of each in the other bed. Hopefully they'll germinate in a few weeks and can use the corn as ready made canes. It's a bit random but we'll see if it works.