Sunday 31 May 2015

A Frenzy of Activity

We had a lovely bout of rain this morning and it made the ground good to dig. The last quarter of Plot 7 is now dug and the beanpoles are erected over a trench filled with mushroom compost. 11 Scarlet Empire runner beans have germinated, we're hoping they'll be joined by one more!
This is a small video of our friend Malcolm's compost bin - the ants have an amazing nest in there! Hope they stay on his plot and keep away from our strawberries. We have our own ants - they tend to be red!
These are our year 3 strawberries.
And this lovely little bunch is on our year-old plants. We're hoping we get to eat that big one very soon.

8 comments:

  1. Wow your strawberry is nearly ready. Paul is looking at his tiny tomatoes everyday but it will be a long time til they are ready to eat. Those ants were busy!

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    1. Maybe Jamie will be able to have it for his birthday 😃

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  2. Wow your strawberries are fantastic. Your plots look so neat. Its hard to keep our edges tidy now that the rabbit wire is up, at our plot.

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    1. Jamie is very good at edges. My attempts are much more casual and then Jamie tidies up after me 😃

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  3. We were erecting bean poles this weekend too.

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    1. Are yours going to be tested by the wind this week too?

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    2. They will have been today

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    3. Yes, here too. It's cold, wet and windy - horrible.

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