well today has been a day of buying seeds and doing a bit more potting. First thing this morning i went to wilkinsons and bought beet root seed (detroit) and iceberg lettuce seed . They have now been sown and it has kept the wife happy. I did how ever put the beetroot seed in seed trays to give them a good start and will transplant when large enough in to the garden. No doubt very one might say he always seem to use seed trays for most things but as i have said before i have nearly always done this and have had good results. Mind you one of my reasons for doing this is because i have learnt over the years that by starting seeds in seed trays i do not have the problem of trying to get a fine tilth in the garden and also i can control the watering until they are planted in the garden.
What i have done with the lettuce seed is just put 12 into compost and when they are big enough they will go into the ground as well as between the toms I will do the same in about 3 weeks by doing that i will have a continuous crop of lettuce in the summer. (The chicken will have some of them).
Now that the veg seeds are planted i carried on filling the pop bottles for more sweet candle carrot seed so by the time i have finished i should have with a bit of luck about 40 which will all go into the green house until the weather gets a bit better and then they will go by the side of the onions in the garden.
I have been told that i will be having my kelsae plants the first week of april so it wont be long now.
When they arrive they will go straight into 4" pots for a while which will have a growing mixture to help them develop a rooting system before they go into there final place in the garden This should be about 4 weeks from potting.
Onion fly and larva
Quite often i get ask how i deal with onion fly and larva, well as most will know it is a horrible thing to look at especially when the leaves get to about 2ft tall and you start to see damaged being done. It is a problem and what i do is to spray the leaves with potato starch with a touch of washing up liquid mixed in when the leaves are about a foot long. I am afraid i can not give much more info on this subject so all i can say is to try it and see how it goes. I will say that i do use it and it does work up to point. That is all for now till later on.
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