Corn and zucchini going well in the sunny weather
First sunflower opened its glorious display last week - its over two meters high with a stem 4 cm thick! We are onto the last of the early spuds which have been divine! Saving the last for when a friend visits next week.
Unfortunately, most of the leafy greens bolted and so Michael has resown coriander, lettuce, rocket, spinach and bok choi in the hope that we can get another crop before the cold weather hits. I've not been particularly good with my succession planting, but then this year was mainly an experiment in determining what plants do best where.
Michael has decommissioned on of the Lisbon Treaty Composting Facilities in favour or a pile in a quite corner. The Treaty bin design lacked appropriate airflow - this has been rectified on one of the bins, but as the arrange was sorta ugly anyway, the second heap will now be much easier to turn. Of course, there was plenty of compost in the bottom -it did work - just not fast enough to keep up with our organic inputs. I'll make up some more nettle tea soon to give the heaps a boost. We are placing organic overflow into a wheely bin - which needs turning weekly given the restricted air flow and danger of stagnating water in the base (eek).
New ti-tech heap
New garden bed left by the removal of the Lisbon Treaty compost bin
Otherwise, Michael's flowers are going brilliantly: marigolds, sweet peas and lots of others I haven't gotten around to learning. He's also transformed the lawn - from dyring moss and weed to a proper velvet l blanket. The moss removal was exhausting confirming my view that lawn is a waste of space. But its the landlord's preference, so we need to live with it.
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