Polytunnel - P1
P1 - salads, including kale, oriental mustards and miners lettuce
overgrown by chickweed.
B3b - Pruning and mulching jostaberries -
3 cornered garlic growing nearby.
P5
P2
starting to cut back and mulch with the green manures
sown in the autumn.
We re-potted sweet peas (sown in October 2019), sowed Aguadulce broad beans, repotted a kiwi fruit plant, an avocado tree and a peach tree.
In the library of 'the allotment garden of Nowhere in particular', Chickweed:
Stellaria media - a vigorous creeping annual that prefers moist soil. It is edible and has medicinal properties e.g. it can be applied in an ointment to treat irritating skin diseases.
(DK - Pocket encyclopedia of herbs. Ed' - Bremness, Lesley. 1990 - ISBN 0-86318-436-7)
Stellaria media (L) Vill. CARYOPHYLLACEAE - also known as 'herbe a l'oiseau' and 'morsus gallinae'. Used as a salad herb and for vulnerary purposes. It's constituents include saponins and mineral salts (calcium and potassium).
(Caxton - The Encyclopedia of Herbs and Herbalism. Ed' - Stuart, Malcolm. 1989 - ISBN 0-907-305-35-0)
Stellaria media - Caryophyllaceae (commonly known as the Pink family) - has been valued as bird food 'and, in small quantities, as a vegetable, in salads or stir-fries'.
(Sinclair-Stevenson - Flora Britannica. Mabey, Richard. 1996 - ISBN 1-85619-377-2)
In the library of 'the allotment garden of Nowhere in particular', Chickweed:
Stellaria media - a vigorous creeping annual that prefers moist soil. It is edible and has medicinal properties e.g. it can be applied in an ointment to treat irritating skin diseases.
(DK - Pocket encyclopedia of herbs. Ed' - Bremness, Lesley. 1990 - ISBN 0-86318-436-7)
Stellaria media (L) Vill. CARYOPHYLLACEAE - also known as 'herbe a l'oiseau' and 'morsus gallinae'. Used as a salad herb and for vulnerary purposes. It's constituents include saponins and mineral salts (calcium and potassium).
(Caxton - The Encyclopedia of Herbs and Herbalism. Ed' - Stuart, Malcolm. 1989 - ISBN 0-907-305-35-0)
Stellaria media - Caryophyllaceae (commonly known as the Pink family) - has been valued as bird food 'and, in small quantities, as a vegetable, in salads or stir-fries'.
(Sinclair-Stevenson - Flora Britannica. Mabey, Richard. 1996 - ISBN 1-85619-377-2)
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