Thursday, 27 August 2009

Planted/Harvested

Planted:
Some Turnips, a few different types of radish, some kale, some spring cabbages, 3 types of spinach. gogogogo late season veg.
Harvested:
Peas (almost ended), Cherokees (blasting still), Giant Radishes, the last of the carrots (now pretty eaten for the most part)

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

More work






Leeks - planted the second set of leeks out, they're pretty small, as are the first lot. Looking around the site, there are some pretty large ones which are full leeks, as well as some smaller efven than ours.
Cherokees - yields are very good at the mo, even though plants look spindly, Runners are pretty disappointing yields and Borlottos look to be doing ok. Picked some Yin Yangs that have dried out.
Squash doing well - the first ones look done but we're leaving them on the vine for now.
Cucumbers good, although pollinating them in the ghouse is a bit tricky.
Tomatoes yielding very well.
Carrots later ones looking a bit eaten (carrot fly?) , beetroots doing well, several out recently.
Courgettes look to be tailing off.
Picked a Parsnip as a test - small but good. Several have a speckled pattern on the leaves.
Cabbages look like they're doing ok but a bit eaten maybe.
Some Pink Fir Apples in store were a bit squishy, but the rest look ok.
Weeded around the Spinach which is still very small but alive.Late French Beans look ok although germination was a little spotty. The various other things sown of late (radishes? Pak Choi? Not sure what else) failed.
Peas have been very strong, but are coming to an end it looks.

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Catchup


Went away for a week, now we're back:
Harvesting:
Cherokee Beans -
got a few two days ago and a decent serving yesterday
Runner Beans
- smallish numbers, but there seem to be relatively few runner bean plants, and a lot of borlotto plants for some reason.
Peas - second generation of peas has started out in force, high volumes, little pea moth.
Potatoes - Newspaper said to harvest all potatoes before rain and slugs get at them, so I dug up some PFAs yesterday - huge yields or huge potatoes, also digging out roosters at mum's - moderate sizes and ok yields.
Tomatoes- first of the tomatoes being harvested. The non-marmandes appear to be doing v poorly, perhaps because we were less successful in pinching out the offshoots.
Carrots - still harvesting, very mixed sizes and success rates, some forking but not much.

elsewhere: squash are massive, but apparently the longer you can leave them on the vine the better, parsnips still big, second crack at broad beans failed with what looks like bad rust, leeks a little small, tbh, salad at home pretty poor, cucumbers coming through, but not in huge numbers, cabbages doing okish but in a lull, PSB looking pretty healthy, fennel ok, i think that's it.