So, we’ve had Ladies Day, but that was 8th March, so why so long before I update the blog? Here we go with the explanation (excuse).
Following the 8th March, we have had glorious weather, and as I have said before, this is a particularly busy time of year. First things first, get the earth turned over and get the early crops in. the boys built a lovely fence to keep the doggies out of the vegetables and between us we started to turn over the ground, by hand and with a rotavater. (Which soon turned out to be by hand again when the stupid thing broke!)
Once the earth was prepared, it was time to start preparing the planting rows and of course writing down what went where, not only for the memory jog when they started growing, but also for crop rotation and to avoid disease next year. The of course there was the well earned drink at the local to enjoy.
The next day, first thing in was peas, with garlic in between - which I am pleased to say 4 weeks later have germinated and are growing strong.
Then it was time to turn attention to the mini greenhouse area, and get some heat into the soil, where we have planted; celery, spinach, parsnip, lettuce, carrot and spring onion. Two days later great encouragement when we saw growth, lots of it! A week or so of tending and watering this ‘growth’, we did a little research into seedling identification and discovered that the compost was full of seeds – weed seeds, so on my hands and knees I went a weeding. Great news, beneath that dreaded weed there are beautiful rows of all of the seeds planted, all looking lovely and no worse for wear.
In between times, we have planted red and white onion, cabbage, strawberries, radish, swede, pumpkin, and herbs in the main growing area and all are doing fine.
Indoors, the chilli-pepper, bell-peppers, tomatoes, geranium, margaritte, petunia and stock seeds are growing nicely, the lavender, two out of two hundred have germinated and the dahlia, lily, bougainvillea and hibiscus which are growing from strength to strength, ready to be planted out after this latest cold spell.
In addition to all of this horticultural and agricultural activity, we have also managed to paint the gates and fences, along with many of our neighbours; this is something that is done before Easter or Christmas in Romania as a fresh welcome to the family who visit at these times of the year. We however took a little longer because it has been 10 long years since they were last done, but now they are looking lovely and very English.
Many of you celebrated Easter last week, but here as with many things, it’s different and we are now enjoying our Romanian Orthodox Easter weekend, which means, more preparation!
So we started with dying eggs red……………………….. (to be continued on the next rainy day!)
The next day, first thing in was peas, with garlic in between - which I am pleased to say 4 weeks later have germinated and are growing strong.
Then it was time to turn attention to the mini greenhouse area, and get some heat into the soil, where we have planted; celery, spinach, parsnip, lettuce, carrot and spring onion. Two days later great encouragement when we saw growth, lots of it! A week or so of tending and watering this ‘growth’, we did a little research into seedling identification and discovered that the compost was full of seeds – weed seeds, so on my hands and knees I went a weeding. Great news, beneath that dreaded weed there are beautiful rows of all of the seeds planted, all looking lovely and no worse for wear.
In between times, we have planted red and white onion, cabbage, strawberries, radish, swede, pumpkin, and herbs in the main growing area and all are doing fine.Indoors, the chilli-pepper, bell-peppers, tomatoes, geranium, margaritte, petunia and stock seeds are growing nicely, the lavender, two out of two hundred have germinated and the dahlia, lily, bougainvillea and hibiscus which are growing from strength to strength, ready to be planted out after this latest cold spell.
In addition to all of this horticultural and agricultural activity, we have also managed to paint the gates and fences, along with many of our neighbours; this is something that is done before Easter or Christmas in Romania as a fresh welcome to the family who visit at these times of the year. We however took a little longer because it has been 10 long years since they were last done, but now they are looking lovely and very English.Many of you celebrated Easter last week, but here as with many things, it’s different and we are now enjoying our Romanian Orthodox Easter weekend, which means, more preparation!
So we started with dying eggs red……………………….. (to be continued on the next rainy day!)
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