One of the major city parks hosts a yearly plant festival. Rows of stalls and tents selling all kinds of plants and vegetables. This year it has come at just the right time to help us put the rest of our alottment to good use!
We picked up some basil, courgette, red cabbage, white cabbage and chard.
After almost a week of daily turning of the soil, the weed growth was under control and the ground was looking good and prepped for planting.
In the bordered plot we put four more tomato plants, the cabbage and the chard...
... and the basil in the sunny corner next to the pepper plant.
The entire quarter of the alottment that we cleared first has been occupied by the courgettes as they require a decent amount of space to grow.
Meanwhile we noticed that both the morning glory and four o'clock flower have been germinating rather quickly, with green and purple leaves sprouting along the border.
After finishing planting the vegetables, we realised that we'd almost completely filled all 50 square metres of the plot. There is still room for some flowers, herbs and such along the borders, and a small patch is reserved for more pepper plants beside the carolina reaper, but from now on it will be mostly be maintenance work.
In terms of produce planted, we currently we have:
- 6 garlic plants
- 7 potatoes
- 4 basil
- 1 sage
- 1 thyme
- 12 tomato
- 8 courgette
- 9 Chard
- 12 white cabbage
- 8 red cabbage
- 1 carolina reaper
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