Planting seedlings

Some of my seedlings have needed planting out for a few days now.

Yesterday (25 Oct), I finally began!  First I raked back the peastraw from the areas I wanted to plant seedlings.  I then sprinkled a 50:50 mixture of EF calcium:EF garden fertiliser (with a little seaweed meal I found in the horse feed trunk) on the cleared area.  This was gently forked in to the top few centimetres of soil.

Then I started the planting out:
Pumpkin – Triamble x 6
Pumpkin – Oil seed x 1 (I have more to plant out that aren’t ready yet)
Cucumber – Green apple x 2
Zucchini – Black beauty x 1
Zucchini – Cocozelle x 1

Today I continued with the corn:
Corn – Mini black popping x 10 (rows of 3, 3 and 4 plants)
Corn – Black navajo x 8 (rows of 3, 3 and 2 plants)
Corn – Golden bantam x 7 (rows of 3 and 4 plants)
Corn – Early gem x 8 (rows of 3, 3 and 2 plants) – these plants were much smaller than the other varieties. I covered 5 of them with microklima cloth cloches.

Corn – mini black popping 1st 3 rows, Black navajo 2nd 3 rows.

Corn – golden bantam 2 rows of 7 plants in foreground,
early gem in background and under cloches,
Triamble pumpkin 1st 6 plants, oil seed 7th plant,
cucumber and zucchini behind early gem sweetcorn.

I also sowed a patch (~1m^2) of Wheat – Kamut variety.  This variety has large grains that do not require hulling.  They can be ground as flour or used as a porridge or as a rice substitute.

Our two almond trees have a good first ever crop of almonds.  I am excited about that – I LOVE roasted almonds.

Baby almonds