Here we are...24th January 2014. Happy New Year!
It's been quite some time since we last tapped-in an entry. So what has sparked this renewed interest in the blog?
We've decided to set up a Facebook page, for our sins, and as FB wanted a website, we thought we'd use this one and one thing led to another so why not try again to catalogue our horticultural eforts?
We have started to do things, albeit slowly. January is a cruel month and one not suited to much enterprise. We have begun to divide our old rhubarb plants. Thus long-overdue task entailed giving the beds a serious weeding, uprooting the rhubarb and slicing the crowns with a spade so that each new section has two or three shoots.
Some of these will be re-planted in the garden and others put into pots for sale.
It continues to be very wet outside and not conducive to happy gardening. However, there are things to be done in the tunnels to prepare them for the start of propagation. We sow chillies in mid-February on soil-warming cables set to around 27 degrees C. We cover the whole bed in plastic too providing a warm and humid environment for the chillies. Still, we're not there yet. Our seed orders are going in now. Plenty of time to get the tunnels ready.
After the chilli successes brought on by last year's summer, we have hopes for another good season this year. Look out for some lovely specimens and a few very hot ones as well. Fingers crossed.
Hopefully we'll post some rhubarb pictures soon.
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