A lot of planting out seedlings this week on the allotment. Planting the sweetcorn, companion flowers and my favourite: Chard! Planting out the Swift sweetcorn doesn’t go to plan as I let the seedlings get too big to begin with and then I manage to snap them all by tipping them out of the seed tray. Garden fail. I'm hoping i haven't killled all of them because sweetcorn is a grass, i'm hoping the snapped ones will grow again from the base. Planting out seedlings and young plants can be tricky at the best of times, especially in the heat but with plenty of water they should be okay.
Then it’s planting out chard - a mix of Rainbow, Lucullus and Fordhook Giant.
And I’m also planting out flower seedlings - nasturtiums and calendula as companion plants. Both being flowers help attract pollinators but I’m also growing Nasturtiums as a sacrificial crop to attract blackfly. I will also eat the flowers, leaves and pickle the seed pods. The calendula attracts beneficial insects like lacewings, hover flies and ladybirds who all eat aphids! I will do a whole video on companion plants at some stage but for now these are the flowers I’m growing for that reason this year in the garden.
This Vlog was filmed over a very hot weekend and it was roasting hot in the vegetable garden this week - so lots of sitting in the shade. It's important to smother yourself in suncream if you burn easily.
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