A little bit of sunshine today was all I needed to take me down to the allotment to weed the asparagus beds.
I found last year that if I weeded them early in the year and gave them a sprinkling of 6X they grew very strongly. I have repeated this to see if it will happen again.
I have an early, middle and late variety and so picked for about 8 weeks last year. The later variety are Connovers Colossal and they really did live upto their name.
The posts are to stake the ferns at around October half-term. This is when the south westerly winds start to blow and because the ferns are usually about 8ft tall they act like sails, filling with the wind and blowing all over the place.
For the last two years we have had asparagus beetle – a very tricksy little critter. When it sees the shadow of your hand approaching to get it, it rolls around the stem or drops to the floor where you can’t see it. As we are organic growers, the only way to deal with them is by hand collection and squashing! We did get them under control as we had very few grubs and I am hoping that the cold weather this winter has killed off any hiding in the old stems.
I inspected the peas in the polytunnel and so far no mouse activity. Next weekend is when I start to sow seed using a propagator on the kitchen windowsill. First things in will be tomato seed. I can’t wait.
What are you looking forward to in the next few weeks?
Pot and Plot 
