Friday, 12 June 2009

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Potatoes doing well - a couple of flowers on some of the earlies, very vigorous top growth, some weeds in growth, impossible to earth them up.

Cabbages/Romanescos doing ok, protected by cover/beertrap, coffee.
Caullies look ok, some v large (plant only) some smaller.
Kohl Rabis swelling a bit already. One got et by a slug. Kale looks poor.

Onions/Garlic/Shallots looking like they wont need long. A lot of the Onions have bolted.

Carrots and parsnips doing pretty well, Salsify, too. Carrots/Parsnips need thinning.

Peas are a bit odd. The first set planted out are yielding peas, although they haven't grown very high. The second plantings are still small, and the most recent planting (soaked overnight before planting) has yet to show. Broad Beans are maturing, but 1) chocolate spot on the leaves is worse, 2) blackfly is back, 3) relatively few of the flowers are surviving into beans.

Yinyangs looking good, some of the Cherokees are still alive, but not growing taller atm. Borlottos and runners looking a bit healthier. Planted 5xCherokee, Runner, Borlotto and 10x YY today as more backup. Squash planted on site ok but small; Celeriacs look sound.

At home, salad is starting to come through, the squash in the squashouse is growing at a great rate and the courgette looks ok. A couple of strawberries are nearly ready.

In the greenhouse, the first tomato flowers are out, the chillis/aubergines are still a bit on the small side and the cucumbers are still small.

Indoors we have ~80 Kohl Rabi plants in pots, Pak Choi, some more Cabbages, Caullis, Romanescos, Beetroots, radishes, that might be it.

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