Our garden is finally being tidied up a bit. We have quite a lot of unwanted weeds that have germinated from the topsoil combined with the horse muck that we used on the new beds last spring. Most of them are easily removed though as the soil is loose because we don’t tread on it. This is one of the benefits of raised beds. Other benefits are that fact that the plants weren’t underwater in the winter and they tend to warm up quicker when the sun shines on them. This means that we can plant out our first seeds earlier. Our carrots did very badly last season; there was very little growth. The same went for the beetroot. This year I think we will concentrate on food that grows above ground such as spinach and broccoli. Both of these did brilliantly and we are still harvesting them. We have decided not to choose anything with the word dwarf in it. We don’t like the idea of harvesting anything that doesn’t grow higher than the nettles.
Because I don’t have the tunnel anymore I will be patient and wait until May to plant out a lot of the seeds. Not being able to start them off in heat doesn’t really matter with vegetables I’ve found as nature has a habit of catching up. A few people have been commenting about the slug population in Inishowen seems to be on the increase. I don’t think it is, there are always millions of them around. If you are planting seeds and small plants then its time to start the preventative steps to keeping the pests at bay. Tidy all of the areas around the seedlings where the slugs hide and get our the repellent of your choice. The battle commences!
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