Pretty much every morning and certainly every night I go over the road, armed with a cup of tea to see what if anything is happening, and it never ceases to amaze me how there will be nothing to see in the morning and yet by the evening there it is, waving its head above the surface.
It also never ceases to amaze me how often and how fast the slugs get at things. I'm expanding my vocabulary of expletives...*******.
Nematodes do seem to have worked, together with home made slug collars cut from plastic bottles with pinking shears... not to mention slug pellets and beer. How can something so repulsive require no much attention.
Anyway, here are some pictures of how it all looks at the moment..:
It's even possible to see the shed of wonky shed fame, it's not looking as green and exciting as people whose allotments have been going for years, but I hope given time it'll look greener than it does at the moment.
I've counted round my bean poles and of the 20 seeds planted, only 11 are coming up so far, but hopefully it's still early days.
Today as well I've planted for the second time my Romanesco seeds, nothing happened last time so maybe its the seed or maybe it was the badger stomping over their heads.
This week might be the week for our first produce from our plot, the salad leaves look good, but I'm not sure how big they're meant to be?
It's all proving to be a wee bit unscientific...but I'm having fun and as long as I manage to save something from the slugs I'll be happy.
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