Yellow Mini Squash and Climbing French Beans
Where were those beans hiding yesterday? Anyway harvested those and then the yellow mini squashes that were fast becoming maxi squash! Laid them on the table to cure.
Where were those beans hiding yesterday? Anyway harvested those and then the yellow mini squashes that were fast becoming maxi squash! Laid them on the table to cure.
Compost heap construction and Ben the rat is still around. The comfrey will act as an activator and help the heap to cook. 4 good cuts from the comfrey this year and at least one more to come.
Improving the soil. I know this is a lot of hard work but I can really see the improvement in the soil now so hopefully I'll be paid back in better crops next year.
Digging gets easier after the rain and the greenhouse crops are coming good. The tomato sideshoots I stuck into pots are zooming up too - hopefully I'll get a few fresh tomatoes late after the main ones have finished.
Yet more harvesting and weeding, Back at the ranch, sorting of potatoes into those that will store a while and those to use now as the slugs have started eating them. We store them in hessian sacks, which let them breathe but keeps out the light.
Potato harvest continues. The last half row of the first early Orla had a good yield but the recent rain has spurred the slugs into a feeding frenzy - hardly any are untouched.
Finally some rain so storing the produce today. Just a few bags of French beans, runner beans and cauliflower were blanched prior to freezing.
Harvest continues and the French beans discovered in hiding. Yet more courgettes - the yellow ones look really dramatic - and then I noticed a climbing French bean. Hiding beneath the leaves were about half a carrier bag full!
A day spent touring allotment sites in Crewe and Nantwich.
Potato harvest and more watering. The soil is pretty solid but with some grunting managed to get the fork in and the spuds up. Divided the potatoes into 3 piles. Good, Bad and Indifferent
No rain to speak of but the harvest continues Dorian peas seem to have large pods but are a little tricky to work out when they are ready.
Watering, weeding, sowing and fourth cut of comfrey for the year
Allotment Competition results in - weather cools to tolerable
Will I ever stop complaining? It's too hot for comfort or too wet to garden.
Harvesting the last of the broad beans in the sunshine and Early Onward peas
Just a little harvesting today. Courgettes incredibly productive.
Basically everything is under control. Planting dwarf beans and green manure growing
Rain benefits weeds..
Harvest starts for real with beans and peas. Planting cabbages and rotovating. Can anything kill off horsetail?