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- The enemy!
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- Lotsa shallots.
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- Broad beans.
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- Big strong onion.
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- Spinach in a row.
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- What’s eating my broad beans?
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- Spinach is good for you!
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- First earlies watched over by ‘Green Face’.
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- Watering can and bricks at the corner of the RCT.
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- Almost full of rainwater.
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- I can see strawberries!
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Looks like things are growing along nicely! Those strawberries are incredible! I’ve never seen them in the incipient stage.
Foresight,
or the Charge of a Child to his younger Companion
That is work which I am rueing–
Do as Charles and I are doing!
Strawberry-blossoms, one and all,
We must spare them–here are many:
Look at it–the Flower is small,
Small and low, though fair as any:
Do not touch it! summers two
I am older, Anne, than you.
Pull the Primrose, Sister Anne!
Pull as many as you can.
–Here are Daisies, take your fill;
Pansies, and the Cuckow-flower:
Of the lofty Daffodil
Make your bed, or make your bower;
Fill your lap, and fill your bosom;
Only spare the Strawberry-blossom!
Primroses, the Spring may love them–
Summer knows but little of them:
Violets, do what they will,
Wither’d on the ground must lie;
Daisies will be daisies still;
Daisies they must live and die:
Fill your lap, and fill you bosom,
Only spare the Strawberry-blossom!
William Wordsworth
Ah, thank you, Val, for the bit of poetry this morning.
Have a prolific day in the plot! :0)
Hi Val – bloody hell… what are you feeding those plants! They are doing very well. The RCT also looks like it’s functioning…patent needed me thinks!
3 for the price of 2 Manure and Compost (with added John Innes) mixed in with mother nature’s own earth. Plus some seaweed fertiliser and used coffee grounds. Lots of rain too! Oh, and my own sweat!
The RCT™© is almost finished and working well. Think I need another barrel though!!
It´s all looking great. We´re digging in manure today in one section of ours – it´s a sheep manure so it´s rather whiffy 😉 Love the Wordsworth!
I’m sure the veg are not bothered by the whiff! Just found the poem this morning… I think the title is great!
Looking good! The spinach looks good enough for salad already! I have way too many enemies in my garden, haha… Nice touch with the poem!
I have a feeling my next visit to the plot will be just for weeding… I might sample a few of those spinach leaves while I‘m at it though!
Looking good! WHEN it stops raining, I might be able to visit my plot for more than 5 minutes. Pea and Bean Weevil have made pretty patterns on the leaves of my broadies, not sure what has been munching on yours though.
Don’t tell me it’s still raining!? It’s a bit cloudy here today, but mild. It’s only the one plant that is being munched, I must investigate further, Watson!
Afraid so. Three weeks solid now. Grrr!
Looks pretty cool to me…
Way too cool… and I mean that in a meteorological way!