I was worried because none of my seeds had sprouted, then a surprise! 4 lovely plants of courgettes have appeared, so now I transplanted them in bigger pots and one in the floor of the greenhouse, so more seeds are now ready to be put in the propagators.
It is a stressful moment when the seeds are not coming up, because the window is so short and the plant would not produce in the Summer if they don’t sprout now.
I have continued the potato planting and the strawberry patch cleaning.
Suddenly everything is growing, the grass, the weeds and even the vegetables.
I have started to clean the strawberry patch and move the plants to a new bed, Seeded more chard and beetroots in the same bed and some rocket. I transferred some salad in less crouded pots still in the greenhouse and my battle agaist snails and slugs has begun.
I have already changed the plot plan from the original
This morning it is really warm and it feels like time to work the plot.
I cleaned the first bed for the potatoes and filled it with fresh compost and manure and then planted the Pink fir potatoes, but i left the rocket and the spinach growing in between.
Put desiree potatoes to chit.
With the advice of a nice Portuguese colleague at the allotment, I took the tomatoes from the window sill that were already growing the secondary leaves, into the greenhouse, divided them in individual pots and put them on the capillary mat protected by fleece.
There were also two plants of cucumbers.
Put seeds of corn and courgettes in individual propagators.
Last week and the kholrabi and cabbages and salad are sprouting.
Reading the book “A bigger picture ” conversations with David Hockney I collect little snippets quotations that catch my imagination and stimulate my thinking.
Here is last night’s thunder strike: ” being able to draw things, being able to put things in believable space; people who can’t draw very well can do that”.
I immediately thought I am one of those who can’t draw very well. I have not done enough of it. So I now want to start and I will draw 100 trees, or the same tree 100 times and see what happens! I have already started both on the iPhone and on paper by memory.
I have finished the Arsenal cushion for Thomas, now I can start the “klimt” inspired one
I have seeded some peas outdoors under a plastic tunnel, let’s see if they grow!
Started khol rabi and cabbages in Polystyrene boxes in the greenhouse.
I felt that he was drawing what I always wanted to draw. I can make sketchbooks, similar to his but then get disappointed because I don’t know how to progress from there. He has spent his life doing it with an amazing energy and the result is impressive.
I loved the iPad drawings the charcoal drawings and the films. And the theme of looking at the same place at different seasons, I always wanted to do that.
Where does this leave me? What can I do in my small self? Does it have any purpose to draw on the iPad “like him?”
The tomatoes are 3cm high in the propagator and I am waiting for the third leaf to transfer them.
I got some polystyrene boxes for cabbages and kolrabi, tomorrow I will start them.
I heard that I have to put some manure on roses and clematis in the garden, so I will have to bring some home.
Winter is coming back though this week…
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