Sunday, 23 October 2011

Autumn planting - raspberry canes, garlic and early onions. Leaf mould

Sunday was a lovely Autumn day, quite warm.  A pair of red kites were circling low overhead for most of the afternoon.

The brassica cage is very sturdy so we are going to use it as a permanent fruit cage.  We planted 15 raspberry canes among the cabbages; 5 each of Malling Jewel, Tulameen and Autumn Bliss.

We planted 6 rows of garlic (Wight) maybe 100 cloves, and 100 early onion sets; 50 Senshyu Yellow and 50 of a red one, Electric.  They went into in shallow trenches made with the Azada, which was a lot faster than using a dibber, and we covered them with horticultural fleece to keep the birds off.

We put pile of leaf mould which had been under black plastic for a year into a plastic compost bin and will add this year's fallen leaves.  It will make good seed compost.  We use a lot of it and it is very expensive to buy.