Been A lot going on...

Hi Readers,

Sorry about the delay on this this month, it's been a busy month for me at work, end of year, end of quarter, planning, batteries failing in the camera, been a whole load of pain. But, that has not stopped the march on Plot 13. We have put in 7-8 beds worth of plants, cabbages, onions, garlic, purple sprouting broccoli.. So on with the show...

These pictures where taken last week, I'll try to get up this weekend but it's autumn and the weather is horrible and wet. Here is a picture from the LeakShack looking out.
Has a certian autumunal feel to it, see the leaves etc, the oak trees that provide us with shade are also a bit of a nightmare, the cabbages are doing well in the middle there...
We are really happy with these cabbages, remember grown from plug plants and our first attempt at growing on a large scale.. A page three cabbage picture is below revealing all..

The area that is a bit more difficult the Cauli's is not so good, but they are suriving well, known as the queen of the plot due to her requirements, she is not doing too bad..

Now the bit that we haven't discussed, about three weeks ago I recieved two lots of plug plants from the supplier, 128 brassicas in total, as well as two bags of seed onions, so going back to the leak shack and looking right you get this view of what looks like open ground...
Well there is a story, we recieved them on a thursday, and had to plant them there and then, it was then I realised it gets dark early now, we had half of them in the ground but then it got really dark, so we where pushing plants into the ground in the dark, fortunatley it turned out ok..
We have four beds like this and for three weeks old it is not looking too bad, again the survival rate is very high, so the soil and the plants are very good...Problem is we'll have nearly 200 Brassicas come march...If they all survive...Cabbages anyone? Suggestions on recpipes welcome ;).

Richards Leeks are soildering onwards although we had our first disease on the plot, leek rust, we get small pustules of orange underneath the leaves, which then kills off the leave,s not pleasenat, I have seen it before on Roses. We just pull off the affected leaves and it controls it, one warning don't put the leaves on the heap, it'll spread the disease..
Moving to another member of this family the onion beds, we dug two of these out two weeks ago and put in furrows, the idea being (According to gardners world) is raising them up like this makes their roots grow better and offers them some warmth against the cold, ie they get warmer quicker after a cold snap..
The other advantage is the leaves capture in the middle also making it easy to clean..

The only issue is the birds think they are worms or something and pull them out regularly, but we just pop em back in again.. Looking from the back of the plot, and boy what a grim day it was (Raining) it looks like this..
In the front there from right to left are four beds, the first will be BlackCurrants, they like the moisture and it is quite damp down there, then two beds of onions, and finally the garlic bed which I planted last weekend, a whole bed of cloves, from elephant garlic (x2) to hardneck white, courtsey of the www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk, nice packaging and plants, hopefully we'll manage to keep a load alive.. Strange thing is why plant now? Well apparently they like the cold to split into bulbs, strange huh?

Finally, the old bean bed has almost had it now, they provided us with a load of beans, lasted around 4 mnths from seed to finish, tasted fantastic, but next time we see this in any big detail we'll be planting fruit in it..


So thats it for now...Hopefully a more speedier post this afternoon plans hopefully to get another bed in and upload the latest plan..