Pig Sty Avenue

A row of peas, along the planting board, before I used the rake to cover them. At sunset, almost. A I took this photo, I was aware of a clattering of wood-pigeon wings right behind me, the brute was startled by the shutter sound the iPhone makes, perhaps. It reminded me forcibly that a priority this weekend has to be sorting out netting, or all the sowing will be for nothing. I covered up this row with a long narrow sheet of perspex, and another of glass, which just happened to be at hand, until I can rig up the netting. I've got plenty of net material, but I'm short on stakes. No allotment today, but must give this priority tomorrow. Anyway, back to the peas: this is at the far Southern end of the plot, next to the oomska and wood piles. So now I've started at both ends of the W bed, and will work my way to the middle before mid-June. Wood pigeons permitting. The neeps at the very other end of the plot have germinated already. I need to get some netting down there,...

I took this a few weeks ago, it's the concrete structure. To the left it meets the Midwest bed at its southerly edge. Recall, this is where peas are going this year. You can't really see it very well on the photo, but the bed is slight raised, just at this end, as it meets the structure. It's only about 6ins or so, but you know when you get a bug up your arse about something? Anyway, I wanted to start digging over the bed at this end this morning, ready for the first row of peas, and decided to get it level first. I just hacked into the rise with the shovel, and threw it north down the bed. That whole side is just about level now, with a steady, slight, gradient running down from S to N. And I am considerably less bugged. Also planted komatsuna in the NWbrassica2016 bed, (I'm working out strings so that I can work out the crop rotation in future years). I've never grown or tasted it before. Mr Fothergill was a bit stingy with the seeds: only 50 for a row, so ...