Another gorgeous day

After a chilly week, Saturday was a lovely warm but breezy day.  I had a couple of hours in the afternoon to myself so I potted on the tomato seedlings (5 of Moneymaker and 14 of Harbinger) and watered the sweet peas.  At the plot, I spent an hour or so hoeing around the garlic patch and the neighbouring soil around the gooseberry and blackberry bushes.

Four of the purple sprouting plants had a slim, central sprout and I asked one of my neighbours if I should harvest them.  We thought that perhaps I should.  Later, I read up on it and it seems that picking the central sprout will stimulate the side shoots to grow.  I'm such a broccoli-growing novice.

At home, I sowed some Brussels sprouts and some calabese.

I nipped over for just 10 mins this afternoon so I cut the sprouts and had the very modest pickings with my dinner.  I think I cut one of them too far so that one may not sprout any more.  We'll see.  No sign of any sprouts on the white sprouting plants.

I took a couple of piccies on my phone.

The broad beans are short but looking good.  There are flowers on a couple of the plants already.

This photo shows most of the right hand side of the plot.  The garlic is in the foreground with (starting from the bottom) 1 row of Lautrec Wight, 2 rows of Early Purple Wight, 2 rows of Solent Wight and 1 row of Elephant Garlic.  Beyond those is the rhubarb clumps, gooseberry and blackcurrant bushes.  Beyond that are the brassicas under the mesh.  Messy but productive for this time of year.

My next tasks are to feed and water the garlic and to dug over some patches on the left hand side.

Back at home, 5 tiny celeriac seedings have made an appearance on the windowsill.