Things are in full swing now in the gardens. The winter is gone, the evenings are lighter, and everything is growing! I’ve been busy sowing seed, I’m nearly half way through, and I’m preparing the beds for planting out. I just finished preparing the cold frames in the Vegetable Inspirations garden for the first planting of lettuce, by taking the doors off and giving them a dose of our compost. Everyone is sowing now, and I think that we’re going to be fighting for space in the glasshouse and polytunnels soon – we start a lot of plants off early under heated glass, things like squash, tomatoes, chillies, basil and in my case mouse melons. Basically, things that like the warm and dislike the cold. Doing this means by the time the weather’s warm enough for them to be planted out we already have nice sized plants, and they will begin to crop sooner and therefore longer, meaning more food for us.
For Helen, Claire and myself diploma assessments have been a frequent occurrence as we near the end of our time here. We’re being assessed on all sorts of things, from sowing seed to watering to correctly applying nutrients to plants. We also have a more theoretical side to the diploma, in the form of test questions to answer. I now know that yellowing of young leaves, particularly of acid loving plants, indicates an iron deficiency. And now, so do you!
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