Allotment stuff

[watervole]

Hoed around broad beans, spinach, peas.  Watered same (the soil is powder dry, we haven't had any decent rain in ages).

finished weeding strawberries.  Watered strawberries.  (using dilute urine - I use it in rotation on different crops as I can only carry a couple of bottles down to the plot)

Memo to self.

Spinach, leek, pea and beetroot seedlings all grow faster ( as clearly shown by the bits that I did first) if you actually weed and water them....

Spinach also benefits from thinning.  So will the beetroot when I get around to it tomorrow...  (Perpetual spinach - aka 'spinach beet' - and beetroot have seeds that are sort of little clumps of seeds, so you tend to get several small plants coming up together. You need to remove the excess seedlings while they're still very small)

Picked purple sprouting broccoli and rhubarb for tea.

Comments

Question`

[epistrophia.livejournal.com]

You've mentioned before about diluted urine for watering plants. Is it good for all plants or only certain ones? And would it also be good for containers?

(I am only in my second year of growing stuff in pots and I feel like a complete numpty most of the time.)

(Also, purple sprouting broccoli - yum!)

Re: Question`

[watervole.livejournal.com]

It's good for all fruit and veg and any garden plant that needs fertilising.

It's the NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) ratio that makes it such a good fertiliser. It's pretty much ideal for plants and has trace minerals as well.

I've been using it for plants in containers for two years now. (If you have a lot of salt in your diet, then only use it occasionally for plants in containers and use plenty of plain water in between)

The book Liquid Gold is entertaining and informative and cheap as well.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liquid-Gold-Logic-Using-Plants/dp/1903998484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274349413&sr=1-1

Re: Question`

[epistrophia.livejournal.com]

That's really great, thank you! ::heads to Amazon::