Grow my pretties... Grow!

Yes, there is finally life a'growin in our little garden! I have planted out a few potatoes, the late runner beans and some spinach in the muddy patch and have been watering them generously as its not rained in about a week now. I repotted the cavolo nero kale and perpetual spinach ready for planting out in a few weeks as they were all beginning to look a bit overcrowded in their little pots. Must remember to invest in some of those little sowing modules next year as I'm sure that will make repotting a less fiddly affair.

The exciting thing about the kale and perpetual spinach (and the chitting spuds) is that they will be (fingers crossed) planted in our new allotment. I finally tracked down the plot manager and they have a half plot ready to be planted which he is happy to offer us for minimal rent. We shall be going down there on Saturday afternoon to have a look and hopefully return Allotmenteers! While I don't think we'll quite be living The Good Life just yet, it should give us a small amount of leafy green foodstuffs over the autumn and winter until we get properly growing in 2012.

Theres not much else to report on the growing front so I'll be off and hopefully have some photos of the new plot to show off next time :)

Gardening Misadventures.

I really should make more of an effort to blog a bit more frequently .... So in an effort to keep track of my horticultural misadventures I shall be using blogger to keep track of how and what I'm growing.

As you can see, I've not got very far. Since taking this photo I've double dug and added compost to this little brown patch at the bottom of the garden and am waiting for The Yorkshireman to build me a raised planter to help keep the mud from spreading!

In all likelihood this wont happen for several weeks (Him being a super busy Web Developaaah) so I may well just plant the winter veg straight in the ground and hope it doesn't all go tits up!

Talking of veg, so far I have (waiting to be planted) perpetual spinach, kale, kavolo nero, runner beans and christmas day potatoes... Well the latter is still waiting to be put in their pots. Not much, but plans are afoot for us to be eating mostly home grown veg next year so I promise to be more organised... Honest!

So, this week I shall be bothering our local allotment manager in the hope there is a spare plot we can rent as this will help greatly on the space for growing/volume of produce front. Sadly our garden is pretty small and like most newbuild has 3 inches of turf roots and then nothing but clay and rubble underneath. Fine if all you want is grass but pants for veg!

Finally I'd better update of the progress of our most successful seedling. Charlie the perpetually growing Bambino..

He's now a proper Little Person, albeit not quite walking and talking, he does try and rule the roost and make his views known (especially about nappy changes and being told no). Hopefully he will become Interested in growing things as he gets older but for now I just try and keep an eye on him as he eats compost while I'm digging.

And so as Charlie is now a'sleepin I have a two hour window to get all the washing, cleaning, planting, cooking and tidying done I'd better be off.

Fingers crossed I'll be back soon with something to talk about!