tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39496189815192239682024-02-07T02:40:49.434+00:00This and ThatMostly gardening and beekeeping.Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-14359767482277052582017-08-01T21:52:00.002+01:002017-08-01T21:52:57.448+01:00Full water tanks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the first time since I put them in place three months ago, my water tanks are brimming over. I haven't had to use the tap outside the plot since they first got a decent amount of rainwater in them - they take drainage from the polytunnel - but the levels have got perilously low at times. The two holes I plugged in the big one aren't leaking a drop.<br />
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The plugs are just a nut and bolt, with a washer and a piece of rubber from an old bicycle tyre on each side, and glue to ensure a proper seal.<br />
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I'm having a lot of trouble with blossom drop on the tomatoes, probably due to the temperature in the tunnel getting too high at times. Some fruit have set, but they're very late and I haven't had a ripe one yet. I planted a few giant toms, and the most obvious thing about them is their tendency to fasciation, when the growing point divides so there are multiple dividing cells rather than the normal single cell. I've seen it before in Black Seaman; it affects flowers as well as stems, and a fasciate flower produces a fasciate fruit which is a lot bigger than a normal fruit. That explains why giant toms are so distorted; combine fasciation with a very large fruit and you have your giant.<br />
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This is what one of the flowers looks like; it's several times the size of the normal ones which I pulled off the other day. If you restrict the number of fruit it makes, then the surviving ones will grow bigger.<br />
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I needed something like this book. My jam-making skills are
almost non-existent, and so much fruit goes to waste. I have currants which I
could rescue from what’s now a mass of nettles; my girls always turned their
noses up at them so I left them. They’ve both left home now. Gooseberries never
did much for me, but they might well do better in a raised bed away from the
waterlogging. Raspberries and strawberries do better, but I need to grow a lot
if they’re going to leave the allotment without being eaten first. Then there
are all the blackberries in my hedge, and along the canal. I’ve never got any
further than making crumble. </div>
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There’s basic advice on growing, with specifics on each
fruit, but the main emphasis is on preserving, as it ought to be. It doesn’t
confine itself to jam, but covers the entire range of techniques. I never knew
the difference between a chutney and a relish before, but they’re both in
there. Sterilising jars is made nice and easy; I always imagined it would be
complicated, but evidently it isn’t. I vaguely remember some old accounts of
jam making which made it seem a forbidding process, but evidently they made it
unnecessarily difficult. Apparently it’s not necessary to sterilise the jar
after it’s been in the oven, so it can be used when it’s cool enough to handle,
which probably explains it. </div>
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There’s nothing about sterilising plastic, and I have a lot
of old peanut butter jars with plastic lids; bleach or disinfectant would
probably do it, followed by hot water and soap. Or maybe the other way round,
or will they stand boiling water? Some experimentation seems necessary.</div>
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There are a lot of interesting recipes. Windfall marmalade,
for instance, which uses apples, jumps out at me because of the numerous apple
trees on my allotment site. Bramble jam is another obvious one, and greengage
jam if I can face stoning all those fruit. They all come ripe at once on my
Cambridge Gage; if I’m not on the plot at the right moment and the wind blows,
I can lose the lot to slugs. Chewed ones would go nicely in jam. </div>
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Some of the recipes are unexpected; chili jam for instance.
We use a lot of it in cooking (my wife’s West African), but I’d never thought
of using it in anything as sweet as jam. Sweet chili dipping sauce looks good,
and probably similar to some of the milder chili sauces we use. I’m growing
masses this year, mainly milder varieties; they came via seed swaps, and these
are what British people seem to go for in the main. Most of the hotter ones I
planted didn’t come up, but I’ll try again next year.</div>
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I can see I’ll be using this one every summer for the foreseeable
future!<br />
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The Jam Maker's Garden is published by Frances Lincoln at £17.99.</div>
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I've just strung up most of my indeterminate tomatoes. these are the ones which go on growing indefinitely; you take off the branches and let the main stem rip. The ones in the buckets are the determinates; they grow so far then stop, so you leave the branches on for a bigger crop. They flop all over the place whatever I do, so I'm inclined to let them sprawl.<br />
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These diddy little things were badly damaged when frost got into the tunnel despite the door being shut at the end of April. Black Seaman on the left; it's a good variety so hopefully it'll catch up. He-man on the right; it's a grafting variety I want seed from, and one ripe truss will do for this year. I don't suppose it's that much for eating, but I may want to graft potatoes onto tom rootstocks to force them to produce berries. The theory is that without producing tubers, all the plant's energy goes into reproduction.<br />
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These miserable things are my biggest chili plants. They've been really slow, but once again, if I just get a few ripe peppers that'll give me seed at least. <br />
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Most of my seedling potatoes are coming along slowly. I'll be putting the biggest outside in buckets soon.</div>
Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-14912604480507010432017-06-12T12:28:00.000+01:002017-06-12T12:28:00.929+01:00The Salad Garden, by Joy Larkcom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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about. I don’t really eat leaves myself, and my wife isn’t interested in salad
without tomatoes. I gave up trying to grow them outdoors due to blight, which
can strike in June on the allotment during a wet summer, and have only just got
myself a polytunnel. I’m growing masses – I hope, after they sulked all through
last month, and a very cold night left them frost damaged - so salad would be a
good idea. I struggle with the blandness of some ingredients, but with plenty
of tomatoes, something peppery like radish – you can eat the leaves and seed
pods as well as the roots – and maybe a couple of chilis, it can be really
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particular varieties developed for their seed pods. I tried one a few years
ago; it grows five feet high and flops, so it needs staking if you want to try
this. The pods are small, but it produces masses, so a few plants would be
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than flowers at the top of the flower stem, which dies and falls over, planting
them a little distance away from the original plant, hence ‘walking’. The
bulbils can be used if you like strong onions, and the leaves can be used like
any other green onion. Green garlic is good in season; it’s a use for the
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There’s a section on wild plants. Garlic mustard is a weed I
tolerate in moderation, along the hedge; it has a pleasant taste. Horseradish
is mentioned here, as it often becomes naturalised; I tried growing it once
before, and within a year it was coming up six feet from the original planting.
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The book provides a pretty comprehensive survey, including
vegetables I’ve never heard of. Important ones, like lettuce and tomatoes,
receive more in-depth treatment. That’s something I like; I sometimes get seeds
of obscure plants, and it’s good to be able to look them up. There’s a good
deal of information about cultivation, which might be hard to find elsewhere for
some of the more obscure vegetables. There’s also a section on general cultivation,
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Things are finally growing away, apart from weeds of course, which have been doing that for months. Even a pot of alexanders, which I planted in March and had given up on, is finally germinating. I'm still making slow progress sorting out overgrown beds, but my CFS is really playing me up and I'm getting ever further behind with it. The hedges still need cutting as well. I'm rescuing perennial leeks from the weeds right now; they've flourished over the last year, while Allium perutile couldn't cope and almost disappeared. The last few are safely potted up for the time being. Never mind, things are growing!<br />
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I've planted loads of runner beans - nine varieties or crosses form those varieties - for the Real Junk Food Project, since I want to develop a grex, they need veg, and the family don't like runners. That's a local project which collects food from supermarkets etc which would otherwise be thrown away, and runs a popular pop-up cafe where you pay what you can afford. I've planted climbing French beans (Trail of Tears) for ourselves. <br />
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So things are slowly going in the right direction. Meanwhile, a gigantic swarm of bees which arrived on the 5th has settled down, and I noticed yesterday that new workers are beginning to hatch out. the broodnest is enormous for a new swarm, the bees quite thinly spread, as they often are in summer weather when it doesn't take too much to keep the brood warm, and the workers are badly needed.</div>
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Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-40379448354929742692017-04-30T22:22:00.000+01:002017-04-30T22:22:07.836+01:00Frost Damage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few nights ago the temperature inside my polytunnel almost touched zero, according to the thermometer. Actually I rather think it did reach freezing. Most of the chilis are OK, but some of the tomatoes have been damaged, along with some of the dahlia seedlings and most of the achocha. Germinating true potato seed was unharmed, though a plant grown from a Negresse tuber was trimmed back. In some ways it's not altogether a loss; it's selected out, for instance, the really susceptible achocha and left two seedlings untouched, which presumably have a shade more resistance. Seed from them should in turn be more resistant. I'm more worried about the tomatoes. I may or may not have lost a couple of varieties; they were planted deep as they root from the stems easily, and if they're replanted shallow they may grow new shoots form the leaf nodes. the one I'm really worried about is a grafting variety which I only had a very few seeds of, and which would be hard to replace. I just need one plant to recover and give me one ripe tomato, and that'll produce plenty of seed for the future.<br />
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Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-29592643230305408862017-04-26T19:44:00.001+01:002017-04-26T19:44:15.986+01:00Urban Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I live in the middle of Birmingham, so whatever gardening I
do is inevitably urban. I have an allotment which I struggle with, so my
efforts are concentrated there. There are sites all over the city, and demand
has slackened off over the last few years, so some may well have empty plots
and no waiting list. There’s a growing movement round the world for community
gardens, where people come together to develop a space. Just across the dual
carriageway nearby there’s a row of small shops with beds outside; some are
neglected, while others can be a mass of bloom later in the year. A couple of
years ago, a dreary stretch of dual carriageway was transformed by guerrilla
gardeners who planted annuals all along the central reservation. There are
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The book covers all the basics; design and planning, styles,
plant selection, colour schemes, which are always a bit random in my own
plantings, cut, dried, pressed and preserved plants and flowers. There’s a
short section on seed saving, always a useful thing to do (I keep anything
precious in the freezer), and seed bombs, which are useful for guerrilla
gardeners. You mix seeds into a ball of damp compost, and chuck it where you
want them to grow. When it rains they germinate. Choose something tough which
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and sometimes by working together with neighbours, there’s a lot that can be
done to transform dreary urban environments. I have snowdrops and daffodils
outside my allotment, for instance, to brighten up the lane. The daffs have
suffered rather thanks to being strimmed too early in the year, but I’m hoping
that cutbacks have stopped that. A lilac in my front hedge provides some colour
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their own right. Angelica, lovage, or even parsnips left in the ground provide
clumps of green foliage and white flowers five or six feet high. Cardoons, a
sort of giant thistle grown for its blanched stems, reach about six feet, with
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windowsill, there’s always something to grow, and if that’s not enough, try
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This is the state I found the lock on my allotment gate in on Sunday. Someone - no doubt kids with tools - had been along ten or a dozen plots, breaking into all of them. They eventually managed to wriggle through a gap in the hedge, but not before they'd bent up my bolt to the point where it couldn't be opened. I broke in, got a crowbar and a big hammer, and manged to get it reasonably well straightened out, so it opens again. Nothing inside had been touched, and they hadn't even got into the polytunnel. Or if they did, they shut the door properly behind them!<br />
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These are some of my experimental potatoes, which made a good meal yesterday. They're all grown from true seed from various varieties. I'm obviously very late lifting them, but they're in good condition, and I'm getting enough decent-looking spuds to full a couple of beds. They should give me a good crop this year. I'm particularly pleased with the black one, at least at first glance. It was solid black inside,and kept its colour well as a baked potato. It's 'son of' Violetta. The very red one was ex-Blue Belle, and again, a good solid colour inside. </div>
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<br />I haven't posted about the plot for ages. I was off it most of last year due to losing an eye and being poisoned by some medication. But I've managed to pull a lot of it back, though it's still a pretty disgraceful mess.<br />
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These narcissi came to me via a dumped container. I don't know how long they'd been in it, but the bulbs were on a sorry state. They've been in the ground for several years, and finally seem to have recovered. Some other bulbs from the same container still haven't flowered, and I don't know what they are. Maybe they need moving.<br />
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The daffs I put on the other side of the lane have sufffered due to being repeatedly strimmed in May, which is far too early. Hopefully the cuts may have put a stop to that at least.<br />
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The crown imperials have also suffered. I just had the one flourishing clump; at their best, they were magnificent. It was the only spot I could get them to grow; they really don't like waterlogging. Then we had a couple of soaking wet summers which nearly finished them off. Last year, after being moved, they were miserable, but this year they're a lot better, though still stunted. Give them a year or two, they'll be back in all their glory.<br />
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My new polytunnel Can't wait to get it up!</div>
Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-74717580732599538842017-03-16T18:02:00.000+00:002017-03-16T18:03:18.684+00:00Good Soil: Manure, Compost and Nourishment for your Garden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Good Soil: Manure, Compost and Nourishment for your Garden</u></b></div>
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Tina Raman, Ewa-Marie
Rundquist and Justine Lagache</div>
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Pub. Frances Lincoln</div>
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I’ve never come across a comprehensive book on soil for
gardeners before. There was a time when I taught about soil in school
geography, but gardening books tend to be interested only in how to change it
and make it do what you want.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That means a lot of work. There’s an old BBC TV series, the
Victorian Kitchen Garden, about the garden attached to a stately home on the
chalk. At one point it shows the difference between the soil in the garden, a
couple of feet of fertile stuff, and that in a neighbouring field, a few inches
deep, and not particularly fertile. The difference would have been deep
digging, stone removal, and huge quantities of manure, over many years. The
mind boggles at the man-hours it must have taken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The important thing about soil is to understand it. No two
sites are ever identical, and what’s right for my allotment will probably be
totally wrong for someone else’s garden. A thin chalk soil would need different
treatment to, say, the moorland where I used to live in Cornwall. There’s an
introduction to soil types, which is as much of the technicalities as you need.
Observation will supply the rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My plot is right next to a stream, and a few years ago, the
waterlogging got so bad I set out to build raised beds. It brought everything
else pretty much to a grinding halt while I managed half a dozen each year, but
the bulk of it was done in the end. There’s still a fair bit to do, but the
rest can go at a more sedate pace. My approach was to dump in anything organic
that was available. So I used garden compost, hedge cuttings, woodchip from a
tree surgeon, autumn leaves, and grass cuttings, and gave each bed a couple of
inches of soil on top. Then I planted straight into them. One bed killed my
potato onions with a bacterial rot, but that’s the only problem I’ve had, and
after a couple of years, everything but the biggest sticks had rotted down into
a nice organic soil which is completely different from the silt underneath it.
Things grow which never grew before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Composting is equally haphazard. I have five compost bins,
and just chuck everything in, including cardboard egg cartons and the odd dead
rat. Once it’s rotted, I spread it wherever I need to fill, or top up, a bed,
and cover it with an organic mulch to deter any weed seeds wanting to germinate.
Nothing except the occasional dock ever survives, and they’re easily picked out
and chucked back for another year. It works, so why make life difficult for
myself? The book covers the outlines of the process, and you really don’t need
more unless you really want to make extra work for yourself putting the ‘right’
mix of ingredients into your heaps, and turning them regularly to speed up the
process. The other thing I use is human produced liquid manure, which the authors
describe as ‘liquid gold’. It’s a good source of nitrogen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mulch is the key to a lot of my gardening. Keep beds covered
with a couple of inches of something organic and not many weeds will get
through, while the worms will gradually take it down and keep the soil well
nourished. This is covered briefly; one area which could have done with more
detail. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
book’s pretty comprehensive. Everything finds its way in, rather like my
compost bins, and emerges in digestible form. All told, it’s earned itself a
permanent place in my bookcase</span></span></div>
Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-51747282955185472672017-02-27T16:59:00.002+00:002017-02-27T16:59:52.772+00:00The Gardeners' Companion to Medicinal Plants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I haven't posted here for ages; I was ill all summer due to some meds which poisoned me, on top of losing an eye thanks to a blocked vein. So altogether it was a difficult year. But the allotment is getting sorted at last, and meanwhile here's a book review I did the other week.<br />
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THE GARDENERS' COMPANION TO MEDICINAL PLANTS: AN A-Z OF HEALING PLANTS AND HOME REMEDIES<br />
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Monique Simmonds, Melanie-Jayne Howes and Jason Irving,<br />Published by Frances Lincoln, £14.99.<br />
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I like this book; it’s not intended as a medicinal guide,
but it has brief notes on 277 medicinal plants, covering a wider range than
anything else I have, and they can easily be researched further if necessary. Most
plants are given half a page, though some have more space; the books list the
parts of the plant used medicinally, the traditional uses, and any relevant
modern medical discoveries. There are instructions for making 25 remedies,
which could easily be adapted. So, for instance, there’s a recipe for comfrey
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None of my other books mentions chili, which we use at home.
In Sierra Leone, where my wife comes from, it’s used in pepper soup, made from
vegetables, bits of meat or fish, and lots of fresh chili; dried chili can be
used if necessary. This is given to people with minor illnesses, and served at
parties. According to the book, the leaves are used to cure toothache, while
the fruit is used for gastric disorders, chronic laryngitis, chilblains and
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Rose Hip Syrup is a familiar one from my childhood. It was
generally available in the 1950’s, due to the prevalence of dietary
deficiencies before the Welfare State and the NHS came in in 1948. It looks
simple to make, and once again, the method could easily be adapted. Valerian is
another; I sometimes take the tablets to help me sleep, as I refuse to use
addictive benzodiazepines like Valium. I’ve never tried growing it, yet, but
the instructions for drying the root look very simple. The book warns that it
causes drowsiness, which is undoubtedly true; it was also used as a poison in
an episode of ‘Midsomer Murders’, but I’ve looked, and can’t find any major
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Onions aren’t mentioned, but there’s a recipe for garlic
oxymel, made with honey and vinegar, which would make it taste a lot better.
It’s best taken raw for medicinal purposes, and I know several people who use
it against colds and flu. I’d be tempted to add an onion myself, as it has
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Two years ago, I planted some Babbington's Leek topsets similar to the ones you see on this flowerhead. They don't produce seed; garlic can be persuaded to do so, but I don't know whethre anyone has ever tried with Babbington's. this year they flowered. I got them well and truly mixed up with some elephant garlic bulbils I planted at the same time, and ended up with only four Babbington's; the two plants look very similar above ground, and even below it until the elephants get big enough to clove. Never mind; I lifted the Babbington's yesterday, and each bulb had divided into two, about 2 1/2 inches or so across. So I now have eight Babbington's for next year, plus the topsets. </div>
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It's an interesting plant, which seems to have abandoned sexual reproduction altogether. This can happen in the wild, but also happens in cultivated plants. We select for the maximum crop, and in the process, we select plants which don't put their energy into reproduction. Seed merchants, of course, push the process in the opposite direction, as they want to sell seeds, which are much easier to handle than plants. So a lot of these are now obscure heirlooms. Babbington's grows wild in a few places, on the Isle of Lundy for instance, and we don't even know whether it's a wild or a cultivated plant. It produces reasonable shanks for a lot less effort than 'normal' seed-grown leeks, so it's worth persevering with. </div>
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I put it into the new allium bed, alongside the walking onions. I have five varieties, which I acquired last year, but I'm not saying much about these until I've grown them for a year from full-sized bulbs rather than topsets. That's my excuse anyway; the bed I've had them in has been too weedy for decent pics. It was a new one, and it takes me a a year or two to get the ground elder out, digging them over between crops. So far there's not all that much to choose between the varieties, though there are recognisable differences, and I'm quite pleased with their progress so far.</div>
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I've also put in two varieties of garlic. It's very early, but it'll sit there quite happily until it decides to sprout in the autumn. It's all intercropped with dwarf beans to make the best use of space which will remain limited until I manage to build raised beds across the entire plot.</div>
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Other perennial alliums are flowering rather than making topsets. This one's yellow potato onion; they've all topples over, and this one is reclining on ulluco. I've also got flowers on white potato onion and the odd shallot, which is of course also a potato onion. I've grown some spud onions (Green Mountain) from seed this year; they were planted late, the fox dug a fair few up as soon as they were planted out, but the survivors are doing well, if not spectacularly. I've got a lot more seed which will go in early next year. This one's my best, with a bulb about 2 1/2 inches across.</div>
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I don't think there's much difference between potato onions and the ordinary sort; one has been selected to be a biennial which produces plenty of seed, the other to be a perennial which produces little or none, but reproduces vegetatively, with each bulb dividing into a clump. This has never entirely been my experience; I've always had plants flowering, though previously I've done the conventional thing and pulled the flowers off. </div>
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The problem with shallots and other potato onions is probably that viruses accumulate over the generations, leading to stunted bulbs. Raising a generation from seed breaks this, frees them from virus, and gives (or so I'm told) bigger onions. I'm going to keep experimenting with seeds, and see where I end up. </div>
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These fabulous purple blooms belong to elephant garlic and perlzweibel, a small perennial leek, respectively. the elephants, of course, are another leek, with a root which splits like garlic, and a mild garlic taste. Hopefully, more seeds to play with next year! I've no idea what sort of fertility to expect; I planted everlasting onion this year, and only got one plant, which came up after about a month. I've got a lot more seed to put in next year.</div>
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Another beekeeper passed a swarm on to me the other day. Nothing unusual about that, and I dumped them in the top of an empty hive as usual, then moved them to the bottom where the broodbox is normally placed. A lot of bees were milling about, and some were going in and out of the empty hive next door, but again that's nothing unusual. I keep empty hives set up to attract swarms, and they're quite effective. But next day, those bees were still there, and there were fewer bees than I expected. So I investigated.<br />
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Half the swarm was the second hive, with two queens. They were well grown, but with abdomens which were short as queens go, suggesting that they're either unmated or recently mated. There had to be at least one queen in the original hive or they'd all have decamped. I ran the queens in the entrance with the rest of the swarm, and put the box containing the workers on top of the first hive. They united overnight, as expected, and in a few days I'll open it up and see how many queens I can find. Despite the books, multi-queen colonies aren't at all uncommon. Our climate is marginal for honeybees, and it's an insurance against queens failing to mate in bad weather.<br />
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I always let a few opium poppies grow, and over the years I've selected for the best colours. This is the first time I've had doubles; I usually prefer singles, but these are so spectacular I left them to flourish.<br />
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Pot marigolds are in full bloom. Parts of the allotment are in a disgracefullyt weedy state; ground elder grows in some of the newer raised beds. I'll did it out when I empty them of the current crops. It's worked for the longer-established beds. Part of the plot is a jungle; I can't strim it as there's precious stuff in there, but building raised beds doesn't leave me the energy to do much about it either. It'll get better.<br />
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Last spring someone passed on a clump of stunted alliums with bulbs about two or three millimetres across. It turned out to be long-neglected garlic. All my garlic keeped over before it flowered for some reason. I don't know what's going on, but the same happened last year. It's well grown anyway. Meanwhile, other alliums are starting to flower. This is Babbington's leek. I've been growing on some bulbils for a couple of years, and at last it's at flowering size. It doesn't set seed, but the bulbils you see will grow. I don't know whether it's possible to persuade it to produce seed.<br />
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This one's Minogue; it's a perlzweibel, what the Americans call a perennial leek. It's a small clump-forming leek, which I'm told doesn't often flower. I've only had it a year or so. Most of it is dying back, but the largest produced this bloom. I'll try to grow the seeds out next year, but I don't know what viability will be like. I planted some everlasting onion this year, another which doesn't often flower. I ended up with one plant. I've got more seed in the frezer which I'll plant next year. I've got potato onions and a shallot coming along as well, but they're not out yet.<br />
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One of the lovage plants I put in last year is flowering. It's a perennial member of the carrot family, and as you see, it's about six feet high and rather spectacular.<br />
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Lastly Skagit Magic, one of the potatoes I've been growing from true seed rather than seed potatoes. It's a diploid, with half the number of chromosomes most commercial varieties have, which is a pity as it seems to be immune to late blight, a disease which is the bane of potato growing. Like many diploids, the flowers are a far cry from the usual whites and insipid pinks.</div>
Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-75828284090522973372015-06-14T22:59:00.003+01:002015-06-14T22:59:51.404+01:00Better Garlic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I lifted the rest of my garlic today, since it was dying back. It's very early yet, so there are no garlic scapes this year, but it did the same last year. This is also supermarket garlic, but a few generations removed. I used the best I had from two very waterlogged years, and planted it in a raised bed last year. As you can see, I've ended up mostly with the purple variety, but I've still got the odd decent sized bulb of the white one, so at least I haven't lost it altogether. There are some nice bulbs in there, despite the early harvest.<br />
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As always, I lost a few due to white rot. I've always managed to keep it to a minimum by rotating, but I'm going to try boiling up a few bulbs to make a garlic infusion, and water it onto beds which show signs of the disease. I've never tried it, but the theory is that it stimulates the fungal spores to germinate, and they then die as there's no onion or garlic there. The other alternative would be Armatillox, a coal tar derivative which is sold as a garden cleanser. It's lethal to fungi, and probably a lot of other things as well, and I'm not keen.</div>
Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-28888906442156258192015-06-12T15:49:00.000+01:002015-06-12T15:49:15.877+01:00Solo Garlic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is garlic from the local market, which I planted in the depths of last winter; I can't remember quite when. It came up with no problems, but it was dying back already, and as you see, it hasn't cloved at all. I'll plant it in the autumn and see what it turns into. I planted some solo garlic I was sent last spring; last time I checked, it had roots and no shoots. It never emerged. I trust this is going to do a bit better!<br />
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I found this nice allium in a pile of grass cuttings and rescued it. You can tell it's suffered a bit.</div>
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Garlic, elephant garlic in the background, and Babbington's Leek in the foreground.<br />
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I've planted two varieties of garlic, plus some solo garlic someone sent me. This forms garlic rounds a couple of inches across. I don't think it's a special variety, I think it's been inhibited from dividing somehow. It hasn't emerged, which is strange, but when I investigated, the bulbs were still there, with established root systems. All rather odd!<br />
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The two latter varieties are very similar above ground, with Babbington's being, as far as I can see, less strong-growing. It grows wild in a few places in the UK, but it's not clear whether it's a true native. I was sent bulbils - it's a topsetter which produces small bulbils in the flower head, and doesn't set seed - two years or so ago. the plants are in their third season, and a couple of them are budding. You can see the bud just appearing here.<br />
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The plant has a typical leek structure, with a 'stem' formed of tightly rolled leaves. The big difference is below ground. Elephant garlic has a garlic-like root the size of a fist, with half a dozen large cloves. It tastes like extremely mild garlic. Babbington's has a single bulb. I haven't tried it yet, but apparently it has a garlic taste as well.<br />
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This one's 'Minogue', an example of what the Germans call 'pertzweibel'. It has a small white bulb, which produces offsets round the base which look rather like pearls, hence pearl onion. The name, unfortunately, is applied to such a plethora of small onions that it's worthless from a gardening point of view. It's definitely a leek, and may well be the same as the American 'perennial leek'.<br />
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This one's a mystery. It was passed on to me last year by another plotholder. I split up the overcrowded clump of miserable little things and gave them room to grow. The bulb is greenish, and the biggest I've seen was about an inch across. I don't know how big they get. It multiplies by splitting, and appears to be another leek. That's the sum total of what I know about the plant, except that both it and 'Minogue' have a nice onion taste, they stand well through the winter, and I've named this one 'Guinea Garden' after the site.<br />
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These are topsetting onions. You can tell they're onions by the tubular leaves. It's a green onion, which, like Babbington's, produces bulbils at the top of the flowering stem. Many alliums will do this quite easily, but some use it as an alternative to seed production. I've gained five varieties of topsetters over the last year, and it's going to be interesting to see what the differences are, apart from size. All of them have at least one or two plants producing buds, though they take a couple of years to really reach full size from bulbils.<br />
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You can see a bit of ground elder coming through. I build this bed a year ago, with a base made of thick brown cardboard. It kept the weeds back for several months, but the ground elder, much weakened, made it in the end. Constant pulling should weaken it further. My strimmer is dead, and not worth repairing, so I need a new one to keep it down between the beds. This time I'm going for a petrol one. I don't like them, but while they get better all the time, battery ones have never been up to the job, and the good ones are more expensive than a petrol job.<br />
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These are everlasting onions, which are similar to Welsh onions. I have the latter coming from seed. The big difference is that these rarely flower. I was sent a flower head, but the seeds haven't germinated. Neither forms a bulb. They haven't really got going yet, but they multiplied like mad last summer. They should provide green onions over the summer, but they get a bit battered and miserable over winter, and Minogue and Guinea Garden should be better then.<br />
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I've been interested in potato onions for a couple of years. The familiar shallot, as the gardener knows it, is a common type, and I'm not entirely clear what the difference between these and other potato onions is. It may be that they're milder tasting. The 'shallots' you buy in a supermarket are usually small onions. I could never grow them before I started putting in raised beds, but the problem seems to have been down to waterlogging.<br />
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Onions come from seed, either directly, or via sets. These are planted late in the year, and form a small bulb which is grown on the following year to produce the onion. On;y certain varieties will do this; most will just go to seed and flower. They're biennials, flowering in the second year. Shallotts, on the other hand, are grown from a bulb. You plant one, and harvest half a dozen or so next summer. They don't often flower, though I had buds form last year. Like an idiot, I did the traditional thing and pulled them off instead of getting seed. I seriously wonder whethre the difference between onions and shallots is any more than breeding,<br />
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Shallots and potato onions are smaller than onions, possibly because the method of propagation enables viruses to build up over the generations. It seems that seed-grown examples reach normal onion size, possibly because the viruses aren't passed down via the seed. Kelly Winterton in the States has done some interesting work (his booklet <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jnqst7-9YfWFovhqjARtcZZVJC0TPzKsow_5mdAwnyA/edit?hl=en_US#!">here</a>), and I've acquired some seed which is descended from his Green Mountain variety. It's about three inches high at the moment.<br />
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I didn't have much luck with my bulbs over the winter. I planted two varieties of shallot at the beginning of winter, a couple of months later than usual. This was purely because I didn't have the space ready for them. I don't know whether they got damp in storage or what, but most of them succumbed to a bacterial rot. Never mind, some have survived. Red potato onions were hammered by pigeons over winter; my topsetting onions got the same treatment, but they survived better. Previous experience with Catawissa, the biggest variety, suggest that they're almost indestructible. Only one of the potato onions came through. Yellow and white potato onions were planted later, didn't come up till March, and had no problems. By the end of the season I should have a bit more idea what some of these plants turn into!<br />
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Edit 6th May:<br /><br />I noticed today that one of the Everlasting Onion seeds has finally germinated. It's been well over a month, but better late than never! I've added a pic of potato onions above.<br />
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Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-46947950587719397542015-04-09T17:43:00.000+01:002015-04-09T17:51:25.435+01:00Perennial Kales<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Green and variegated varieties of Daubenton's Kale, growing in a neglected patch of the allotment. The plants have been hammered by pigeons - I should have netted them earlier - and you can see the typical growth habit, with branching at every node along the stem. These are tough plants which grow where a lot of things won't, and they'll cope with the periodic waterlogging. So I've left them in level ground, on part of the plot which is still waiting for me to get round to my building raised beds there.</div>
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Daubenton's grown from seed from the Heritage Seed Library. It's clearly crossed with something as the leaves are more crinkly than the standard version. That's to be expected as brassicas tend not to self-pollinate. All these have sweet-tasting leaves; from the culinary angle, there's nothing to choose between them.</div>
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Perennial tree kale; a cross between Daubenton's and a green tree collard. This is a triffid, about five feet high when the pigeons haven't been at it. I've got four plants from this cross, all different. The leaves are a bit tasteless, lacking the sweetness of Daubenton's, but the difference isn't really noticeable in our spicy food. It still has the Daubenton's trait of branching at every node.</div>
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Taunton Deane Kale. These are from cuttings I was sent last year. so they're still quite small plants as these kales go. As you see, it lacks the branching habit, with leaves at the end of a long stem. Like Daubenton's, it's sweet tasting.<br />
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These are all recovering strongly from the pigeon damage, and will be very much bigger by the end of the growing season.</div>
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Last but not least, three interesting packets from New Zealand. Dorbenton's is apparently a weaker version of Daubenton's; I don't know whether it's a cross or a completely different variety. These are crosses with broccoli, and a cauliflower, and I can't wait to see what they turn into!</div>
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Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-87912735994069539522015-03-12T21:11:00.000+00:002015-03-13T19:04:11.716+00:00Beginning of Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Things are beginning to move on the allotment. The snowdrops have been flowering well as usual, and Crocus tommasinianus, which I found in Cornwall last year, is flourishing as you can see. The daffodils in the lane aren't flowering as well as they did last year, and I'm wondering whether this could be down to the weather. We had a wet autumn; could this have raised the water table enough to damage the roots, I wonder? Waterlogging is always a problem, but everything doesn't go back to that.<br />
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I'm currently working on the eleventh raised bed, in the gap where you see the mesh in the pic. That was protecting some small Taunton Deane Kale plants, which have now been moved. It's slow progress as I damaged my back again a couple of weeks ago, sawing a plank. It's not too bad, fortunately, and hasn't stopped me altogether.<br />
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I've begun planting a few things. Seven batches of true potato seed, derived from Violetta, Russian Blue, Desiree, Highland Burgundy Red, Blue Belle, Skagit Magic and 'diverse' from a number of varieties, went on the windowsill today. Skagit Magic seems to be blight proof from what I've seen so far. I've also planted Meconopsis betonicifolia, which is coming up at the moment, Helleborus argutifolius, Welsh Onion, potato onion 'Green Mountain' F2/F3, which arrived this morning from Templeton in Australia, and Everlasting Onion. The latter won't normally flower, but it does occasionally, and someone sent me a seed head. 'Green Mountain' is derived from seed Kelly Winterton in the States garnered some years ago. Potato onions (shallotts are a type of these) don't normally flower, but they will perform occasionally, and once the virus load is removed, the bulbs are apparently much bigger than shallotts, more the size of a normal seed onion.<br />
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I'm going as fast as I can, and I'll have more space available than last year, but it's never enough, and even when I'm not damaging my back, I'm still exhausting itself. Still, it makes a change from dealing with a queue of people needing help with their benefits, housing applications or whatever! Right now I need a new strimmer, since the old one died on me, wood preservative, planks, and some rat traps.<br />
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Thanks to the cuts, we can't get the Council rat man or the buckets of poison he used to leave us any more. Rats are all over the site, not surprisingly under the circumstances, and I'd expect increasing vermin problems everywhere. Combined with the deterioration in rubbish collections, with household rubbish being flytipped more and more, it's not a good scenario.<br />
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On a more cheerful note, two varieties of green onion, Minogue (top), which may or may not be a pearl onion (the definition of the term isn't clear) and one passed on by a neighbour, which I'm calling Guinea Garden after the site (lower), have stood well all winter. I don't know how to classify the latter yet. They'll multiply up and give me plenty for cropping over next winter. Everlasting Onion is looking decidedly miserable at the moment, but multiplies fast, and will produce over the summer.<br />
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The perennial kales were well chewed about by pigeons, but they're extremely tough, and as you see, they're coming back well. the one in the pic is a tree collard/Daubenton's kale cross, in practice a perennial tree kale. I've got some Daubenton's/broccoli and Daubenton's/cauliflower crosses to try this year. I really fancy a truly perennial broccoli. the nearest we have at present is Nine Star Perennial, and it's only that because we cut all the flowers off and eat them. If it's allowed to flower, it becomes biennial. What I've got in mind is a plant I can get big broccoli heads from, year after year, without that limitation.<br /><br />Edit: Three more lines of true potato seed arrived this morning form Curzio Carvati. So that'll be a total of ten this year.</div>
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I've been accumulating perennial onions from several sources. Two sorts of pearl onion for a start, one with a name, one without. The named one is Minogue, with white bulbs. This is the other, which has green bulbs.<br />
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The weeds are going mad in the background because I'm currently minus a strimmer, and haven't been well. This was passed on to me by another plotholder who had no idea what it was. It's like a small spring onion, with a bulb up to an inch or so across. The bulb has no rings, as it's fored from the base of a single leaf.<br />
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These are everlasting onions, similar to Welsh onions except that they don't flower. I was sent a little bundle of tiny bulbs at the end of last winter, with the Minogue, and both went happily into three-inch pots. As you see, these have grown like mad. I divided them a few weeks ago, and they're splitting again already. Next year I plan to use them as spring onions, but meanwhile I want to multiply them up for a season. <br />
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Potato onions are a new aquisition, along with four varieties of topsetting onion which are just beginning to show. Shallotts are a familiar type; others are rare, and can be stronger tasting or longer lasting. Like shallotts, they flower now and then; the ideal would be to get seed and try breeding them.<br />
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Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-64609679658532154612014-07-18T22:22:00.000+01:002014-07-18T22:22:28.306+01:00Bees settling in<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This little toad was sitting in a seed tray. I haven't been posting much, largely because the plot is in cuch a humiliating state after being off with a bad back for much of last year. I'm getting it sorted slowly, but meanwhile I've no energy for the bits I'm not working on, and much of it is a jungle. <br />
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The broad beans have been a success in the main, and the direct planted ones did a lot better than the transplanted ones. I planted 17 varieties this year, and they should be well mixed up in the next generation. Many of the peas have also done well, though some of the last ones I planted are a bit stunted. I wonder whether that's down to summer heat? This one is Carlin Pea, the oldest known variety. It was first recorded in 1562, four years after Elizabeth I came to the throne, and may well be a lot older than that.<br />
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The Daubenton's and Taunton Deane Kales are planted out, and the tree collard x Daubenton's cross is now chest high, and buried in weeds. The one that flowered hasn't set much seed, but I'm hoping for a little once it matures out enough to harvest. Right now the flowering stems are all in a hessian bag hanging in the shed.<br />
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Butterflies are doing quite well this year; I just wish my camera was better adapted for that sort of thing. I have to get too close to get shots like this one of a small tortoiseshell, and it doesn't work too often. The next one needs to take something like the old-fashioned close-up lenses, so I can get them to fill the frame from further away.<br />
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The bees are doing well. I've acquired four swarms in the last month or so; three moved into empty hives of their own accord, and one came from another beekeeper. I'm still working on a video about them, but it's almost done. I've found and marked all four queens - the last one today - and all four have capped worker brood. I'm fairly happy with three of them; the last is a follower, yellow, with a broodnest shaped like a horizontal oval. That's not siomething I see much of; at the moment it's only using the top part of my 14x12 frames. Overall, I think it's one for requeening. I can't stand followers, and they'll scare my neighbour if they start bothering him on the other side of the hedge. They buzz about your head without provocation, in the most distracting way. I assume it's a type of threatening behaviour designed to intimidate and drive away large animals like bears and humans, and it's most unpleasant when they I'm on the plot and some wretched bee starts!<br />
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I spotted this during a very wet visit to the plot this morning. A Daubenton's kale x tree collard cross is coming to the end of flowering, and strong new shoots are appearing below the flowering stems. A biennial brassica would die back at this stage.<br />
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Meanwhile I have flourishing seedlings from HSL Daubenton's seed, and cuttings of green Daubenton's and Taunton Deane kale are well rooted and growing strongly. The variegated Daubenton's I moved suffered a bit in that very sunny spell, but it's now recovering well. <br />
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Daubento's is a quite a low growing kale; I'm told Taunton Deane is twice the size, and it certainly looks it on this video:<br />
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The kale is on near the end; I can never get videos to link properly for some reason. I find that the best way to propagate these is with small cuttings about three inches long, taken at this time of year. The sort of long cutting shown in the video will certainly root if it's taken in the autumn - I haven't tried at other times of year - but it's expensive to send through the post, and unnecessary. Small plants need protecting from harsh winter weather.<br />
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The good thing about the tree collard cross is its height and shape; it's a tall plant with space for another crop underneath. These have grown since the pic was taken, and are now level with the highest flowers on the one that's blooming. There's plenty of leaf there, and no doubt it's there all year round!<br />
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My bed of Negresse potatoes is thriving, for the moment. It's a late late, like all very old varieties, and it's vulnerable to blight. I didn't get any last year thanks to the dry weather, and I'm hoping it'll stay away this year. The disease has been dreadful for a few years, as it thrives in a wet summer, then overwinters in the tubers people miss then they lift their spuds. It spreads from the next season's volunteers, which are often left by plotholders. After a dry year, however, there's a lot less of it around.<br />
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I'm getting some very useful help from a horticulture course, getting this area dug over. It's all going to be raised beds; health permitting (right now I'm recovering from a thoroughly unpleasant virus), I hope to have another seven raised beds done by next year's growing season. The beds are making a real difference, as plants like shallotts, which I could never grow before, suddenly start flourishing once they're well above the water table, and it's a lot easier to keep them weed free. It's likely to take three or four years, but the plan is to do the whole plot.</div>
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Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-87188357518188155372014-03-14T19:26:00.001+00:002014-03-14T19:26:14.930+00:00Getting Sorted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's going to be a long haul after seven months away from the plot, but Ive started getting things sorted. The three raised beds I managed to build last year have been cleaned, topped up, and planted. The one closest to the camera has my racist potato, Negresse, in it.<br />
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This is a 200-year-old (or thereabouts) French variety, with deep purple skin and violet flesh. I haven't had any luck with it so far; I grew it for several years, or tried to, but blight, which is endemic on the site, hit it year after year. Like all very old spuds it's a late maincrop, and the tubers don't begin to swell till October. So blight coming around midsummer meant that it barely produced tuvbers big enough to survive at all. I wrote it off.<br />
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Last year, we had a dry summer, and no blight. The few plants that managed to survive being swamped by massive rat-tailed radishes produced enough tubers to plant up a bed, so I'll see how it does this time. After a dry summer, there should be a lot less blight on the site this year, other things being equal.<br />
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The other beds are planted up with alliums. I'm now digging as fast as I can go, trying to get two more beds done in time to get the broad beans planted out in them. These are already started, in pots. Sixteen varieties and mixes, with a tremendous range represented. Big seeds and pea-sized seeds; red, green and almost white seeds. One variety has deep red flowers, and one pure white. I'll see what I end up with in a few generations!</div>
Robert Brenchleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3949618981519223968.post-66468727030315223222014-01-10T17:14:00.003+00:002014-01-10T17:14:38.656+00:00Back to the Plot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I did a little work on the plot today, for the first time since I did my back in last June. It was a very little; I forked over a couple of square yards of a raised bed, and got home knackered. It's a start, anyway.<br />
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As you can see from the above photo, the rough ground across the lane from my plot is completely waterlogged, with standing water. The level on my plot is a little higher, and there's no water showing, but I know from experience that if I tried to dig it now, there would be water at the bottom of the trench. This is why I need the raised beds; the waterlogging makes it impossible to grow some simple crops, like shallotts, successfully without them, and a really wet summer can wipe out a great deal.<br />
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It's the first time I've been on the site for a month or so, as I really haven't been well, and I was relieved to see the brassicas have remained untouched by pigeons. Once they lose the habit, they don't touch them until we get a spell of hard frost or snow, and then they don't stop till things start growing the following spring. Occasionally, they keep at it all summer. I didn't have the energy to net them after doing a little digging.<br />
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It's going to be a slow process, but at least I've made a start. Next time I'm down, I should get some pots and a seed tray, and get some true potato seed started on a windowsill. The earlier the better as far as I can see.</div>
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