Our volunteer lunch on Wednesday…
Last week we got on with a lot of potting – we potted up around 1,600 chard plants, 500 parsley plants and around 550 tomato plants. We also potted up our brassicas, which are sitting our cold frames. We spent some time improving our new polytunnel’s sliding doors, making them more wind resistant and re-positioned our grow-lights so they’re optimally placed.
Out in the fields, we’ve moved the mypex sheeting from the leek beds to where we’ll be planting out our shallots and we’ve cleared all our kale away to make way for our climbing beans. Our salad plants in our other polytunnels are coming to an end, so we’ve been clearing them out to eventually make space for the tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers and we’ll resow some of the area with quick-growing salads and herbs like coriander, rocket and mustard leaf.
This week, we’re continuing to rotorvate the ground in preparation for the last tranch of broad beans and the first tranch of courgettes, which we’ll plant around mid-May when the weather’s warmer.