Earlier today my Christmas trees seedling arrived. 15 Canadian spruce (on the left) and 15 Blue spruce (on the right). Whole house smells like Christmas. They are in the bucket with water, and if weather permits, I'll plant them at Friday.
I agree that's a lot of onions. I am not growing any of the onion family this year. Sadly we have a fungal disease on our ground called White rot. It attacks the root and base plate, and the bulbs won't store well. I am still clearing an old Asparagus and , close by, a strawberry bed. As these areas won't have grown onions for more than 7 years, I may try some next year. I will grow some of the potatoes there this year as the amount of cultivation will help clear the perennial weeds that are the reason for moving these beds to a new spot. I hope your trial of Christmas trees works out for you. Have started sowing any seeds yet?
Good morning @Skandi and @Allotment Boy. Believe me, it's only a half amount of onions which I planted previous years. I decided for only 10kg this year, because last year was completely disaster. I mentioned that I have friend with restaurant, and he buys all my extra veggies.
@Allotment Boy, thank you, Christmas trees look very nice and healthy. Few days after I planted them they spread the branches and now have fresh green colour. I started with some seeds a month ago. Mostly peppers and tomatoes. Seedlings look nice at this moment, and most of my veggies I sow directly. Sorry to hear that you have problems with White rot. Hope you will clear new bed from perennial weeds, potatoes are always good choice as first culture.
It passed more than two months from my last post here, and lot of things happened. Whole April and beginning of the May weather was terrible and almost every day with rain and wind. I couldn't do anything outside on weather like this, so all works are late, and now I have a lot of things to finish. Potatoes were planted at 10th of May and now is time to earth them, because they grow very fast. Also I planted 12kg of onions and they growing fast. I have many other veggies, and my last huge job was five days ago when I planted 150 sweet potatoes seedlings. Yesterday I was at cottage and wind destroyed only four seedlings. I'm quite happy with that ratio, because it was very high wind. rain is forecasted whole next week, so I'll have short rest before continue with other chores.
For now just photos of some flowers and small spruce trees. Those are trees from few posts before, and all of them are well rooted now and look beautiful. Yesterday I cleaned area around them and gave them space for growing. Soon I'll post photos of other veggies.
Hi , we have had poor weather too, not, as bad sounding as yours but wetter and cold nights. So up until the last couple of weeks when it warmed up we are very behind here. I am away at the moment, so will have to catch up again when I get back.
Here I am again. 😁 Very busy week is behind me, and with high temperatures. Every afternoon I was at field and a lot of job is done. Now I have mostly maintaining and watering my plants. Everything look very well this year due to lots of rain in April and May. I'm finished with earthing potatoes and that was most exhausting job because this year everything is done by hands. This weekened, according to forecast, we can expect rain, wind and much lover temperatures. I really hope it is accurate.
Second early potatoes.
Onions. I reduced quantity this year.
Chard, normal😁 and red one.
I have many other veggies, but didn't have enough time to take all photos. Some other time.
Thank you @tui34. I'm going to be little bit smug, and say that I'm winning against weeds at the moment, but summer just began. Neighbor fields are all overgrown which cause my some problems, but it's paradise for insects.
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I hope your trial of Christmas trees works out for you. Have started sowing any seeds yet?
Sorry to hear that you have problems with White rot. Hope you will clear new bed from perennial weeds, potatoes are always good choice as first culture.
It passed more than two months from my last post here, and lot of things happened. Whole April and beginning of the May weather was terrible and almost every day with rain and wind. I couldn't do anything outside on weather like this, so all works are late, and now I have a lot of things to finish. Potatoes were planted at 10th of May and now is time to earth them, because they grow very fast. Also I planted 12kg of onions and they growing fast. I have many other veggies, and my last huge job was five days ago when I planted 150 sweet potatoes seedlings. Yesterday I was at cottage and wind destroyed only four seedlings. I'm quite happy with that ratio, because it was very high wind. rain is forecasted whole next week, so I'll have short rest before continue with other chores.
For now just photos of some flowers and small spruce trees. Those are trees from few posts before, and all of them are well rooted now and look beautiful. Yesterday I cleaned area around them and gave them space for growing. Soon I'll post photos of other veggies.
Onions. I reduced quantity this year.
Chard, normal😁 and red one.
I have many other veggies, but didn't have enough time to take all photos. Some other time.
Looking good - and you are keeping on top of the weeds. Everything looks nice and tidy.
Lovely to see your posts!!