VegetableBen: Weed it and Reap!: Spring has sprung

25 February 2012

Spring has sprung

It has been a lovely sunny and warm day at around 12°C. Been busy sorting out my water butts, moving them about and creating feeds from one barrel to another. My biggest project was to construct a water collection area over my new green waste bin. This I did using some old corrugated plastic I had knocking about. I constructed a gutter and a pipe feed using an old pop bottle.

In respect to the amount of water I can collect now, I would guess it is around 1,500 litres. However, I could always do with more so am on the hunt for more water butts.

Did some sowing, sowed carrots, radish and spinach. For the carrots I also erected a fleece wall around the carrot bin, I really really hope that I do not get carrot fly this year.

Here are some photos!

Greenhouse lettuce

Spinach

Garlic

New water butt siphon

Water collection area

New water storage

Lettuce outside under a cloche

Sowed Radish

Carrot bin fleece

Carrot bin

5 comments:

Liam Stubbs said...: Patrick would like some of those carrots when they've grown!; 26 February 2012 at 13:25
Rooko said...: Good idea with the roof over the waste bin, then Ben? Are you keeping the fleece around the carrot bins permanently as a protection against Carrot Fly; 28 February 2012 at 16:42
Ben Scoble said...: @Rooko, the roof over the compost bin is removable so that's good and should give me some much needed extra water. I will be keeping the fleece around the carrot bin all year - never manged to get decent carrots because of carrot fly...let's hope it works!!!; 28 February 2012 at 16:46
Anonymous said...: Got an old waterbutt needs the tap fixing and there's the problem of transport to your world..; 29 February 2012 at 20:02
Anonymous said...: BTW.. Anon was Amb's nan Jean :-); 29 February 2012 at 20:04