21st January 2021

Sunrise 08:29    Sunset    16:39

A nice looking morning, but when I stuck my head outside to bring in the bin, it was baltic, really cold. I had a few errands to run today, so I started that this morning. I bought some seed trays and some Sweet Corn seed today, Swift F1. I am going to try Sweet corn this year, never had any luck before.

I also bought some Chilli seeds, Prairie Fire, mostly because they were a bogof with the Sweet corn.

I had a look at the plastic storage units and we decided when I came home to buy one. I got it click and collect from Homebase. I will pick it up tomorrow with Gary and his van. It is too big a parcel to get into the car.

When I did get into the garden, Alison came with me and we finished off the bark laying on the paths in the veg garden. Alison weeded the bed we used last year for the Brussels sprouts, a little bit of work and we can plant it out.


We now have 4 empty beds to plant up, one for the Strawberries is the only plan at the minute. We will decide what else we are going to plant soon, one will be for Sweetcorn.

The day turned out OK, a few cold showers, but when we started in the garden it was good. I started on the Rhubarb patch, did a bit of weeding, will finish it later.

 

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