Stumbling Through The Garden

I learned a few things this year, one being that I don’t like weeding, what makes it worse is the weather we’ve had. Sure, I could have gone out and weeded for hours in the rain and high winds but to be honest I’d rather not. I’m now at the stage where I just need a break in the weather so I can get the remaining potatoes pulled and into sacks. I bought some sacks and Onion nets from here the other day, arrived very quick and seem to do the trick. As soon as they are up I can get the Green Manure sown, I’ve opted for Hungarian Grazing Rye this year.

That leaves the main veg plot. We’ve still got masses of onions that are not yet mature, the sweetcorn of coming along, Beetroots are ready and I just need to pull them to pickle. Carrots and Turnips are still a long way off being ready, not sure what went wrong.

I digress, next year, in an effort to outsmart the weeds I think I might cover one of the areas in black sheeting, cutting holes/strips for what ever I plant. This will help me plant in long rows rather than the blocks I did this year. Anyone tried this and is it worth doing or should I just stop being lazy?
I took most of this week off work with the intention of working in the garden and house but after watching the Sunflower being blown over for the 8th time (see pic) I retreated to the Internet looking at ideas for next years veg patch. Not content with my current box of seeds I picked up some Roma Tomato (100 seeds ) for 9p along with some Squashes for the same price! At that price, they may not work but what can you get for less that 10p nowadays? (When I was a lad a Chomp bar was 10p, as were Fredo’s, sadly no longer)

Horizontal Sunflowers - Sadly this is a normal sight.

The lemon Cucumbers are good, I like these cheery fellows and will grow them next year. They don’t have the bitter taste all the other ones had but were grown in the exact same way.

If anyone has advice for next year I’d like to hear it.

1.    homegrowing 09.15.11 @ 11:54 am      

   Even I remember when chomp bars and Freddo’s were 10p, and I’m only 18! ):

   I’m also already planning my veg garden next year