"Christina Websell" wrote in
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We got some spinach, carrots and rocket in yesterday. I went with my
sister in law yesterday, she has never gardened for veggies before,
and I think she wanted me to do it.
However, I raked the ground and told her how to sow. Even with a line
she made some wavy drills, and I said she could leave them like that
if that's how she wanted the plants to come up, so she started again.
Being blonde doesn't work with me ;-)
I phoned the beekeeper. He wants a plot along with his bees (which he
says is too late now, I don't think so, he could get a May or June
swarm easily) The thing is that I do not know him. I have offered him
room for three hives, the room he doesn't have atm.
It's up to him. I don't want to offer him a plot yet.







You are lucky to have had conditions to sow!
Non-stop wetness here. The carrots I sowed during our dryer period have a
very bad germination, so I am going to either fill in the very large gaps
with new seed or rake it all over, when it's drier, and start all over
again.
Does it matter if the drills are wavy? Not to me, mine are like that, not
too much though.
My spinach is still in plug, I never put brassiccas straight into a bed
outside, and of course, as I said it is too wet in the garden to plant out.
Sounds like the beekeeper might be just trying to get a plot, but who
knows, he might be genuine. Or not. Trust is earned over time, and did he
fall at the first fence? I think so, but I know nothing of keeping bees.

All the best and coninued good luck.
Baz