The Old Vicarage B&B, Little Ouse

Time to start separating the onion seeds that grew last year. Between the onion rows, there are sowings of Carrots (Nantes type) as well as radishes and beetroots. I sow half a row of each and then will do another sowing in a fortnight.

when sowing seeds, I put in the drill and water that, then. sow the seeds in the wet drill, before using the back of the rake to just smooth the drill over.

On the left I have sown mixed lettuce leaves and perpetual spinach under the plastic sheet. The plastic sheeting is just the bag a mattress was delivered in. I split it with a stanley knife and will keep it on until the seeds show through.

The main reason that I put a cover on the vegetable plot is that the deer and other animals, will forage in any recently dug areas.

Inn the car park at the front of the house I have set up a couple of decorating trestles with scaffold boards on to start hardening off the geraniums and other plants.

During the renovation I had some guttering left over. I have now moved the strawberries from the gardena and popped them in these. As I took them out of the garden, I have just used the soil they were growing in. This has the advantage that it does not dry it as quickly as the shop bought compost.

The majority of the strawberry plants all Elsanta. I have bought a new variety Fenella and will see how that one fairs over the next few years. This year, I’ll stop any fruiting on it and try and get as many runners as possible.