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1/2/26 - Bean Update and Sowing Starts Again

Trying to learn my lessons from last year, I'm seriously trying to persuade myself that I am not miles behind everyone else when it comes to sowing, but that I am in fact, still ahead of where I really need to be.  But, when boredom steps in and I'm looking for something to do, there's always the allotment! It's turned out to be a busy weekend, but this week has also seen it's first minor failure of the season.  Let's get that bit of badness out of the way first... Our onion sowings were started several weeks ago, and while germination was generally good, half on one tray didn't actually germinate very well.  Nevertheless, the rest of the seedlings were looking fine, so I sowed another 1/4 tray of onion seeds to top up the levels and didn't think much else of it.  But then I took my eye off the ball for a bit.  After germination, onion seedlings should really be removed from any heat.  But I didn't.  Not only that, I also didn't keep on top of th...

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