There has been a lot of heavy rain in the past week but it was dry on Sunday and most of Monday so we planted out our brassicas and added crushed egg shells to the planting holes to make the soil alkaline. We planted out Brussels sprouts, savoy cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, purple sprouting and black Tuscan kale. Some of the plants are probably a bit close to one another but we can thin these out later if the slugs don't do it for us first. We planted some French marigolds around the brassica bed as they are supposed to deter cabbage whitefly which are quite a problem on our allotment.
We also started a row of dwarf French beans where we have lifted most of the first row of early onions.
Everything is growing very fast and the amount of weed growth over the past couple of weeks is unbelievable. We did some serious weeding and strimming, and will need to prioritise this for a while.
There are quite a few nice looking blackcurrants, much better than last year, so the pruning was worth doing. We netted them to keep the birds off.
