Molly's Lotment - Planting Onions

They said it was going to be 'All Change!' and they were so right. The end of  March was bathed in glorious sunshine. Wednesday April 4th - plummeting temperature, driving snow and high winds.

Turbo Onions

No time to lose, Tuesday we planted two rows of onion sets the length of the lotment down at the mill. The Man that Can cobbled up an onion planter/spacer which in all fairness worked like a dream.

Onion planter/spacer

Off cut of soft wood. Marked at 8" intervals. Remains of broken pikel stale lathed into pegs 2+" depth. Attach to length of wood. Loop each end of baler twine or any such strong string to wood and .....

away to go. I would have preferred a stout handle up the centre of the onion planter, but time was not on our side and what's more it did the job before the snow came. We also managed to plant four rows of main crop potatoes, a row of early onward peas and a row of Bunyard's Exhibition broad beans before the rain tumbled.
The weather is still wet and chilly. I spent the afternoon weeding in the poly tunnel ......

Rocket Potatoes

The early potatoes we planted the beginning of March are living up to their name. They were chitted in February.

Little Gem

Little Gem lettuce are starting to 'heart up.'

Webbs lettuce, beetroot and parsnips will soon need thinning.

And just outside the door of the poly tunnel - a clump of fresh mint defying the couch grass.


Happy Easter
Molly