We ordered the onions [White Prince] from a different supplier, they are heat treated. Apparently this means they are delivered later and need to be planted quickly after delivery. Since the day they arrived it has been wet or we have been busy. We finally got up to the allotment on Monday, by this time several of the baby onions had gone mouldy, perhaps I should have taken them out of the jiffy bag they arrived in. Anyway, they are now planted, I think there were 7.5 rows of 13. I gently placed them in a light groove and then covered them with the fine tilth around to cover their prospective new shoots from the birds. R spent some time clearing around the raspberry canes and rescued a dozen strawberry plants. I planted them next to the redcurrant plants which I was given by Margot, I am not expecting many strawberries this year but maybe next year.
We went up again today and I put in the six strawberry plants I had in pots at home. I also erected the bean supports and planted the four plants that I started in the window at home. I hardened them off by putting them out during the day in the last few days. I also planted some seeds directly into the soil. I scattered a few slug pellets which are not organic but I hate the darn things when they eat my little babies.
The radishes we planted are coming and the beetroot. The weeds that are also coming are hard to distiguish from carrots at this early stage so I will wait to thin the two rows. No sign of the potatoes.
At home the gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes are both healthy but I am waging war with the ants which are busy stocking the tips with blackfly. It is Nippon for the ants and squishing for the blackfly.
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