We're keeping on top of the picking this year. Small amounts but more frequent visits. We've been down and picked three times in the last seven days. These are the results......
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Went down for three hours this morning to pick whatever's ready and to give more or less everything a feed.
With the summer that we're having; average temperatures and plenty of rain, everything is looking really good. Photo's show what we picked today and how everything is looking. The yacon and the grapevine particularly are loving this weather. Actually did the first major pick of the season on 30th June but just got round to documenting it. Raspberries, mange-tout, gooseberries and a whole load of redcurrants. Just popped down for an hour to pick some fruit and dug up some potatoes while we were there. Picked a couple of courgettes too.
Just popped down for an hour or so to water and pick some fruit. We also picked a couple of pound of potatoes to have with pork chop and ratatouille for tea.
Down the allotment for eight hours today and also picked our first fruit of the season - redcurrants. Probably wouldn't have been quite so long down there if there hadn't been a delivery of chippings that were the best we've had for a couple of years. Usually the chippings are about 70% leaves and 30% wood but this lot, as can be seen from the pictures, was about 60% wood and 40% leaves. Put new netting round the large fruit cage. Made a new door for it as well. Planted and shaded the celery. Celeriac's taken well. Potatoes are flowering so we had a look but they're only the size of marbles. The Goji Berry doesn't look too happy for some reason. It seems very woody at the base, though there's a bit more greenery higher up. Today has been the eleventh consecutive day the sun has shone all day and temperatures have been mid-twenties or above. There's even been talk today of this summer excelling 1976; but we'll see. We're having to go down the allotment every other day to water and pick fruit/veg. Not much else to say.................. except "phew", and here's a few pics. Not much to add: despite the horrendous spring and early summer everything seems to be doing almost the best ever. Dry conditions so far have meant virtually no blight........... yet. No sign of this weather coming to an end in the near future. Becky's wedding next week so watch this space. It's been an absolute heatwave for the last five days and looks like continuing for another week or more so we've been and watered twice in the last three days. Everything seems to be thriving in the sunshine. The following pictures tell their own story. The old water butt with a tap had fallen over (again) and acquired a strange new shape. The redcurrants are ready for picking; so pick them we did, along with some potatoes, cabbage, beetroot, french beans, other soft-fruit and a courgette |
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