More spuds

Wallflowers potted up

More spuds

Lupin seeds

Collected some lupin seeds as a 'backup'. After collecting, I put them in a paper envelope.

More spuds

Fox attack on bag of compost

Primroses potted on

I potted on some of the primrose seedlings (the pots nearest the wall in the above pic). The five leftmost pots contain plants grown from seeds of red/yellow-flowered plants. In the batch of four to the right, the two on the left are from, I think, seeds from a blue-flowered plant, and the remaining two pots contain yellow plants which are actually ones which I potted up last year.

The three pots furthest from the wall contain wallflower seedlings.

Lettuce update

Despite my fears that it was too late when I sowed the second batch of lettuce seed, they did go on to develop into full-size plants.

In front of the lettuce are two pots of foxglove seedlings which I must do something with...

More spuds harvested

Dug up another Pentland today.

Maybe it wasn't tomato blight...

My fears of tomato blight appear to have been unfounded, as the fruit has been fine. Maybe the leaves became discoloured due to natural die-back. Some gardeners actually recommend removing the leaves once the fruit starts ripening.

Primroses split and replanted

The primroses which I potted up last year have grown and were becoming rather congested. The first pic above shows how they looked in March, the second pic shows how they were at the beginning of this week.

I split them and have replanted them in the front garden. I will be repotting some of the primroses I sowed in May (see below how they look now) into the now vacant pots.

One thing I learned while splitting the primroses is that it's better to split them by hand - I originally tried splitting them with a spade, but on a couple of occasions I only succeeded in separating the top of the plant from its roots.


In the pic above the pots nearest the camera contain foxgloves.

Another batch of spuds harvested

Today I harvested 2 of the Pentland plants.

Final spud bag of 2009 harvested

Today I harvested the final potato bag of this year. This bag contained Pentlands - quite a good crop. I plan to harvest the remaining potatoes growing in the garden over the next few days, as the first frost cannot be too far away. I'm not sure what effect a frost would have on the crop, but it's best not to take any risks.

Foxes dig up spuds

While watering the spuds in the garden this evening I noticed that the foxes had dug up some spuds from one of the plants. I placed paving slabs and old roof tiles around to try and deter further raids, but from my experience with the strawberries, now they know there's food there, the foxes will be back.

B*st*rds.

Spud bag harvested

I harvested the first of the replanted potato bags (the one on the left in the pic above). IIRC it contained 3 Charlotte and 1 Pentland seed potatoes. Crop wasn't too bad.

Wallflowers germinating

...but no sign of activity among the seeds I gathered from plants last spring (the pot on the left).

Spud updates

I think the time for harvesting this batch of spuds may be approaching (I said that about two weeks ago as well).

None of the plants in the bags have flowered, but that may be because they were planted rather late in the season.

Tomato blight?

I think my 'main' tomato plants may now have blight. Not sure what to do. The fruit is unaffected so far, but I don't have room to pick and store all the fruit - I'm overrun with tomatoes indoors as it is. Will wait and see how things develop.