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April
Overview
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An overview of the deck as of the start of April 2002.
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Box A
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Box A, crammed with leeks, brassica, carrots and other such
good munchies.
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Box B
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The cloches are gone now, and the plants are growing fast.
Growing, from rear left to right:
Dutch beets, petits pois, button onions; spinach, kale,
broccoli raab; Nantes carrots, pacific stir fry, jewel
beets.
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Deep Red Roses and Jasmine
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With the arrival of spring, the jasmine bushes up and produces
more leaves, ready for flowering (which is usually around the
end of April or start of May). The deep red roses behind, though,
are earlier, and start bursting through the jasmine. They are
gorgeous, by far my favourite - a velvety, rich wine colour.
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Carrot Seedlings
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A glimpse through the cage at the first signs of carrot
seedlings in A9: half Nantes, half sunshine carrots.
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Leeks
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The nine leeks in A5 are getting larger, and have toilet rolls
around them as protection from gritty dirt. The eight leeks in
A5 are much thinner, for whatever reason - perhaps not quite as
sunny. Even so, I've already learnt that I can use them like big
spring onions, so if they never do fatten, they are not a waste.
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Iceberg and Brussels Sprouts
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A couple of containers near block B; two iceberg lettuce and
a brussels sprout plant. (Which later bolted in a big way.)
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Containers
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Sundry containers dotted around the deck. At the back,
covered in a cage to keep it away from cats, is the catnip.
(The worst culprit was a stray who adopted us, but he is
alas no more - a trip to the vet to see to his sore tail
resulted in a discovery of much pain and disease, so he
was sent to the Rainbow Bridge - sniff.) The one next to
it is another iceberg and then the hamburger onions; one of the
ones on the ground is
globe onions, the other turned out to be the mystery
potato; the leafy thing is brussels sprouts. Note the bag of
dirt and the sogginess from watering.
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Button Onions
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The button onions, showing signs of growing.
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Pacific Stir Fry
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The most successful are the pan pacific stir fry in B8
- unfortunately, nothing I could do to them made
them palatable to me. I gave the last of them to Deann and
will donate the seeds to friends.
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Dutch Beets
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Dutch beets - growing nicely. It's funny how seeds
planted on the same day develop at different speeds. Some
will be ready soon, others will take much longer.
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Jewel Beets
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The other kind of beets are also leafing up, but unlike the
Dutch ones show no sign of making fat rootlets yet.
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Spinach
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Four little spinach plants, with rather tasty leaves.
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Nantes Carrots
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Not long now.
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Block C
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Okay, let's go down those steps again. From rear to back,
left to right: snow peas, empty, Meditteranean
cucumber; Winter lettuce and radishes, Spring lettuce,
radishes; baby leeks, Mesclun, baby carrots. Check out the
pure white lily in the background.
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Mesclun
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The leafy and tasty multi-variety mesclun in C8.
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Baby Carrots
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The baby carrots in C9, growing up fast.
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Radishes and Winter Lettuce
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The one surviving Winter variety lettuce and some radishes to
keep it company.
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Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplant
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The abovementioned plants, hardening off in the sunshine at the
back of the house. Not the big pots full of dirt; that's what I
dug up to lay the growing patio.
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Back Patio
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The patio at the back, being built stone by stone. The big
pots in the foreground are Swiss chard. In the background
are brussels sprouts.
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Rose Buds
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Rose buds at the back of the shed, waiting to burst into
colour.
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Yellow Bush
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The yellow bush in full bloom, with large pink roses at the back
to compliment it.
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Camellia
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A camellia bloom - or at least, I think so. Between the back
of the deck and the carport is this flowering bush, then
another kind of bush.
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Kitty Nest
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Couldn't resist. Took delivery of a large batch of big pots
from Mellingers, and JR just seems to... fit.
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Tower of Pots
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What I came home to one afternoon.
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Last update 10 Nov 2003
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