# Gardening diary

I'm a bit late with the diary this year so here's what's happened.

We have bought and planted two new fruit trees, a Jonagold apple and
a Conference pear. They seem to have taken well having been a bare
root stick in a bag. Both now have plenty of leaves. The Cox's
orange pippin from two years ago is showing plenty of apple buds and
looks like it will fruit well again this year in spite of remaining
in a large pot. I will look to put this into the ground, like I have
the two newer fruit trees, next year.

The two veg beds at the front of the house have been dug and have 20
potatoes in each. The front bed contains two rows of Maris piper
chitted from store bought potatoes. The back bed contains one row of
Maris piper seed potatoes and one row chitted from store bought
Vivaldi potatoes. The majority of the first two rows now showing
growth well above the shallow trench I dug when I planted them.

I have dug both beds at the back of the house. The front most bed
still contains the onions and leeks planted last year, they didn't
grow to usable size so I left them there over winter. They seem to
have started growing again.

The back bed has been sewn with one row of Nantes carrots and one row
of fly resistant carrots. As well as the carrots there is one row of
Boltardy beetroot and one row of parsnips. These were planted 3 or 4
days ago.

The raised bed has been sewn with one row of french radish, one row
of webs wonderful lettuce, one row of rocket and one row of Lolla
rossa lettuce. A cane frame has been built at the back of the bed for
the Ailsa craig tomatoes which we like so much. Four large pots on
the patio have been planted with tomatoes and we have bought a tomato
grow bag to trial. Currently we are waiting to be safe of any cold
snaps before putting out the remaining tomatoes. The potted ones we
can bring in should the temperatures drop suddenly.

We are considering getting a poly tunnel for next year.