We've been doing the front garden at home; preparing for the autumn which, hopefully, might still be a few weeks away. Completely filled the car with ten bags of cuttings/clippings but it didn't impact too much on the compost heap itself.
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Had quite a bit to do today but we had some visitors who were only to eager to help. Becky came down with Sophie and Jess who picked some tomatoes (and unlike Mercy resisted taking a bite out of each one) and also picked a few blueberries and blackberries. We also had Stacey come down to help and she cut the beans down and cleared the bean-sticks and then picked a few of the remaining blackberries. We also cut back some of the stuff that was dying back, particularly around the seating area and we tidied up some of the beds such as the rhubarb. Sophie and Jessica picked a few tomatoes...... ..............and also a few blackberries. The rhubarb looked a bit of a mess so we cleared the dead leaves and tidied the bed. Just some of the produce we picked. Stacey cut the beans down and tidied the sticks. And that was it basically. Picked some produce as shown below and gave the squashes a whole water-butt of water as the ground looked very dry.
This has been the longest gap between allotment visits since May. A few days ago we had 12mm of rain over a few hours and it's certainly freshened everything up even if it wasn't a deluge.
All we've done this visit is pick some fruit and veg. As you can see the tomatoes have all come good. Over two months now with very little rainfall and not much showing in the forecast. Went down and watered and fed pretty much everything and also did a bit of tidying up.. Took over three hours Did a bit of tidying up and weeding. Fruit cage certainly looks a lot neater and most of the soft fruit has now been picked. As always we picked a bit more stuff. Again, hardly any rain recently though not quite so warm. Sill, needed to water and there was plenty to pick. The carrots have gone a bit wild; wonder if they're as big as they look? Sweetcorn, too, looks pretty good though one or two of them have fallen over. Squashes seem to be taking over the world............ Tomatoes are looking very good. The comfrey bed however is beginning to show signs of neglect as we've concentrated on watering and feeding the actual edible stuff. Finally, here's some more produce that we picked today. We're back to the heatwave again: 24 hours brief respite (of sorts) last week and now it's forecast hot, hot, hot again. Went down for two and a half hours Saturday evening and picked a load of tomatoes and other stuff, and watered everything. Picked some red potatoes and they look pretty good. Although technically we're still in the middle of a heatwave it has been slightly cooler and cloudier the last two or three days so we went down and weeded, picked a load more produce and planted a bed of Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli and covered it with netting. The artichokes are doing OK (well, two of them anyway: shame we don't like the taste.) and have got some pretty blue flowers/spikes. Tidied up the rhubarb. |
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