Thursday 20th May - Diary

Today.
Drop Kids off , sent mom home on the train back to Pemby. Phew great to see her and talk plants but I never get anything done.

Gardening Today List
-Plant chicory seedlings. Planted in new basic open wicking bed with transplanted Burdock. Also put some in the new shadecloth base wicking bed, with the broccoli, kale and Peas.
-Took out first shoot/stalk or broadbeans they were straggly and 2-3 more on each bush now, picked those tips for salad.
-Plant Hairy Vetch and Lab Lab Beans to try and get some seed ASAP.
-Create a new WB for strawberries in their current location, temp relocate strawbs for movement back into new bed. Also need to try and save the sun rose and the two are good companions. Bees come to the sun rose and improve the strawb pollination.
-Clean out hot house/Plastic Tunnel House for seedling Papayas and other semi tropical.
-Help thin out school native tree seedlings.
-Soak seeds in warm water 24hrs to start 2-3 month stratification for spring.
Strawbs/Raspberries any cold climate seeds.
Raspberry's - Blue, Orange, Golden, Black, Purple Flowering
Strawberries - Musk, White Soul, Mixed Wild Varieties.
Tara Vine
Sweet Cicerly - needs a few goes in the freezer as well.
Heart Nut


Garden Observations:
-Something big is eating my beetroot, Mangwursel and Walking Stick Kale in WB1 (Wicking Bed 1). Suspect birds or mice, set up CD's on string and put out a wax bait.
-Late Peas are poping up.
-Late Snake Beans are poping up.
-Finally can I identify some (3-4) chickweed plants in WB3 never thought weeds would be so hard to grow. Also looks like I have self sown Rhubarb there.