Quite a lot of it ... when sitting on the window sill it all looked quite
insignificant, just a standard size seed tray. Now it has all been planted out 40 plants!!
that will be sweetcorn on the menu for quite a while. Breakfast: home made cornflakes, lunch: corned beef, dinner: sweetcorn salad.
Which caused a bit of hassle in the seed tray cells that had more than one seedling, the roots were wrapped around each other and needed to be slowly teased apart.
Anyhow, they are all in now, so we'll see over the next few weeks if they get established - flower - pollinate- fruit - and produce a crop!! If it is a bumper crop, I'm not sure what the plan will be.
The council delivered some horse manure, but it was delivered to the far end (from my plot) of the allotment. So each journey with the barrow was a quarter mile round trip, and I've filled up both of my manure heaps, which probably means I've had a good few miles of exercise. Some of the heap was nice and warm and steaming, so I presume that the microbes were at work rotting it down already!
I've watered it down, and will cover with some old cardboard packaging I've got so hopefully the rotting process will carry on. My experienced neighbour reckons it takes about a year for it to rot down completely!!!
Word is that next drop-off of manure will be in 3 weeks time, and will be at the gate near my plot ( about 10 yards away, YES!)
Broad beans have come under attack from black fly, which seem to start at the tips and work their way down...some plants are pretty covered, and have attendant ants (milking them? or it that just aphids?). I'll need to by a sprayer bottle, and then try out some soapy water on them...
Apart from that the beans are doing really well, getting longer and plumper. May try a few in a couple of weeks.
The fish pond is still pretty murky, but my subjective view is that it is clearing up a little, probably will need a couple more weeks. Some water snails are in the pond now, so they may keep the level of dead vegetation down. The fish have been spotted a few times, but they tend to stay in the depths, they might come to the surface more once the water warms up.
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