The main goal today was to get the strawberries planted out, which was a bit of a challenge given how much rain had fallen overnight. The ground is absolutely sodden, which was a real shame given that it has been a beautiful day. I was quite comfortable outdoors whilst exercising my right to bare arms 😀 I managed to get the main varieties done however. The alpine ones can wait as they’re not that big yet.
It’s not a great photo because of the position of the Sun (I should have thought to take one earlier), but here they are before I covered them with fleece to try to keep the frost off a little and to hide them from the deer so all the new leaves don’t “disappear”. The alpine strawberries will go in nearest the camera.
Once the strawberries were no longer taking up space in the greenhouse I could sow more seeds. Lots of lettuces today (Reine des Glaces, Lollo Rossa, Red and Green Little Gem, Cos (Lobjoits?), Multigreen 3, Rouge Grenobloise and Webbs Wonderful (which I’m really just using up seed for). All sown in module trays, four seeds to a cell so I can thin them later and half a tray per variety. I also sowed coriander, Romanesco Cauliflower (a big favourite here), salad onions, peas (Champion of England for podding peas and Delikett for sugar snaps), Busy Lizzies, Lobelia and Salvia (the latter for the cutting garden, the former two for my wife’s patio pots). Fortunately three trays of plants needed to come out of the propagator so there was space to put the new ones in. It’s getting a bit like that already with both the propagators and in the greenhouse: one out, one in.