September 30th – Garlic arrived
Autumn planting variety Garlic pack arrived from The Garlic Farm. Excellent.
Month: September 2014
September 27th – Last beans and courgettes
Harvested the final potatoes for this year and will publish a final tally for reference for next year in another post. Also last of the runner beans, courgettes and some swedes. Also retired the runner beans and cleared the bed, Read More …
Potato weigh-in 2014
Final tally’s are now in for the Potato varieties grown this year. Grown in dustbins with 5 tubers per bin and 2 bins per variety (Exception is Purple Majesty where 20 tubers were planted in 4 bins). Pentland Javelin 1st Read More …
September 25th – End of Season nearly
Winding down now and Lisa ventured own to the plot and brought back a trug of Corn, Courgettes, Runner Beans and a Cabbage. Turns out the Highland Red Potatoes have red flesh (sort of) in the end too!
September 17th – First Corn
Lisa visited the plot this evening while I was attempting to recover the ipad from IOS8(!) and returned with these goodies: The first corn of the season, not perfect but not bad for a first try 🙂 Some courgettes, a Read More …
September 09th – Catchup
Ventured down the plot in this Indian Summer weather this evening to replace the rotten raised bed board from the weekend, so all in and sorted. Also reclaimed the Conservatory back with the harvesting of the final peppers and tomatoes Read More …
September 07th Harvest
Forgot to add in the previous potato post that we harvested 5.516Kg of Maris Peer second early potatoes and also 2.175Kg of Highland Red Burgundy but we still have 1 bin to empty of those so that figure will probably Read More …
September 07th – Plot Update
A few hours this afternoon to harvest some more produce including the Purple Majesty potatoes, wind things down and begin preparing for winter. The cloches were dismantled and frames stacked ready to be anchored once the last two brassica protection Read More …
September 04th – Runner Beans
Just a few runner beans today.
September 03rd – Tomatoes & Peppers
Bumper harvest of Tomatoes today and a few more sweet peppers 🙂