All in a row

Yesterday was awfully chilly but today it was toasty warm outside, so I got a bit of cleanup work done, trying to keep the weeds down before everything goes in the ground. I also planted out the three rocket seedlings into the ground next to the mesclun, at around 15cm apart. They're still pretty small considering they're a month old now, so perhaps they will take off now they're transplanted.

In the beetroot rows, 6 out of 12 Detroit and 4 out of 12 Albino are well and truly at seedling stage now, three weeks after they were sown. I don't need to thin these out as only every second one germinated - spooky! Today I have extended the row with another 6 sown of each, and also mulched in between the rows with some of the Tui pea straw pellets. These handfuls were pinched from the strawberry planters as there's far too much on those now the pellets have expanded. Not too keen on the associated flies though.

Next to the beetroot, the spring onions have also decided to make a move and I now have 5 out of 6 up, spindly and insubstantial as they are. They also now have 6 potential new friends that were sown today.

And round the corner, there's at least a dozen onion seedlings. I think it would more helpful if lemons didn't keep dropping on them though, and ironically it's the ones at the end nearest the lemon tree which have germinated while the other end doesn't seem quite so good - I imagine this will be because the lemon tree has had a couple of loads of compost round it over the past year while the other end missed out.