today's weeding

It was lovely this afternoon, weeding with a rainbow, Caroline and John. Also using a new Kale recipe: Shred it, add salt and soya sauce and place on baking tray in the oven! Result like Chinese seaweed. Still interested in receiving more kale recipies.

Compost

I get frightfully excited about compost. In Edinburgh I recently got my rotting heap up to 55degreesC, I was out measuring it's temperature first thing each day. Getting compost to really take off like that takes great cuilinary skills... Bins are labelled clearly enough for all literate morons,

The horrid green bin is now redudant, but has left us with some scrummy compost ready to use.

Weeding

Lots and lots of weeding has taken place over the last two days.. especially in the long thin bed by the house. Should be ready for Catherine to get creative with in October.

Plot 4 and 5

Plot 4 now has purple sprouting broccoli, which all being well should be croppable in April... that is if it can survive the winter gales and hungry roedeer. It also has one tomatoe plant in it.. but not for much longer.

Plot 5 just has one lonely sickly squash plant at the moment and other wise is empty. I am about to put in a whole load of broad beans, in the hope they will be well established before the end of the growing season, and croppable in May.

That is the theory.