Showing posts with label Hazel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hazel. Show all posts
Friday, 11 November 2011
Wednesday 9th November
03:14 | Posted by
Pembroke Pocket Garden |
The Garlic 'Marco' is doing well already, and has not been eaten by squirrels yet!
The Elephant Garlic is slower to sprout, but is just pushing through the soil.
Many of the tomatoes are hanging down close to the wet ground now that the branches are old and sagging. Many are rotting on the vine...
..so, the tomatoes in danger of rotting have been placed in the greenhouse in the hope that as many as possible will continue to ripen.
Some have already ripened in the greenhouse. Should we think about collecting their seeds for next year?
The Winter Parsline is doing very well. How do we eat this?
Somebody (squirrels?) is digging big holes and digging up our beetroot!
The beetroots need to be thinned to give those that aren't eaten by squirrels enough space to grow and get fat.
We need to keep an eye on drainage during the winter....
Someone has even started digging holes in the pots in the greenhouse!
The Hazel has started budding, so hopefully we will have plenty of Hazelnuts next year. The broken branches have been tidied up.
We must remeber next year to harvest the Tomatellos more often. So many have dropped and been eaten by slugs and snail. It would be nice if they shared more with us!
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Wednesday 2nd November
13:08 | Posted by
Pembroke Pocket Garden |
On the way to the Garden, a punnet of figs was collected from Chumleigh Gardens in Burgess Park!
The broad beans planted last month are doing well.
And the garlic planted two weeks ago, have sprung up too.
The tiny chilli plants re-potted and placed in the greenhouse are doing well and some have started to flower.
Also in the greenhouse, the runner beans have dried and can be stored for planting out in the spring.
Compost!
The three compost bins were emptied out and mixed together.
All the twiggy bits were cut up in to smaller pieces to ease composting.
Once mixed together, the compost was put back in to one container, with layers of shredded cardboard, tomato plants in between and a sheet of plastic covering the whole bin to keep the compost nice and warm.
Found in amongst the compost was this sprouting avacado seed. This has been potted up and put in the greenhouse.
And found in the mounds of things waiting to be put in the skip were these potatoes desperate for some soil to get themselves started. Next week, these need planting!
A leaf from the tree that we have been told is a terrible weed and we should cut it down before it takes over the garden. Seems to be a Hazel though, so we could get some lovely Hazelnuts off it if we can beat the squirrels to them.
A five year cycle of coppicing right down to the base is recommended to ensure bushy growth. As this once has pretty much been coppiced down to the base, we can probably leave it for another five years, gathering Nuts in May (or at least in the autumn)!
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