“I feel the need, the need to weed”
I’m sure at least some of you recognise the quote from that 1986 classic, “Top Soil”. It’s still apparently Winter, so why have I just had to weed my polytunnel and greenhouse for the second time this year? The second time in seven weeks, in fact. Stuff is growing like mad in there. Even the salad rocket and leaf radish are on the point of flowering in the next few days.
The main veg plot itself still needs a round of weeding finishing off too, but my only inflatable dinghy is too wide to fit between the beds. It’s almost a shame we didn’t have snow here at the tail end of last week as happened along the western M4. I could have worked from skis instead.
As you may have guessed, it’s been quite a wet day here (again), so weeding under cover is perhaps the most productive thing I could do. I was going to sow more seeds, but I’ll need even more propagator space and given that we’re forecast temperatures down to freezing for the next couple of nights I don’t want to move my germinated peppers out into the main greenhouse just yet so I shall hold off for the time being.
I did think I could fill some module trays with compost in preparation for more sowing, then discovered that I only had three left where I’d punched holes in the bottom of the cells, so I’d best get one with doing some more of those as well. So far this year I’ve sown over sixty module trays of seeds.
