Latest from the Champeau vegetable garden

     Ok, so I am now back on track!

Latest planting of Batavia Blonde lettuce

A melon. Will it set?

   This blog will cover the seven days (1st to the 7th July) which will mean I am back on track to do weekly blogs at last.
   So, over the last week the weather has been hot and there has also been thunder, lightening and rain! The rain has been welcome despite the fact it will encourage the weeds and goodness knows they do not need encouragement! Pulled Touchon carrots, Batavia Blonde lettuce, rhubarb and dug Anoe potatoes which are now finished. I now move onto the second earlies which are Belle de Fontenay. This potato can also be regarded as a main crop potato. I am not expecting such a good crop as the Anoe as the Belle de Fontenay is an older variety and comment has been made that Anoe are more heavier cropping than Belle de Fontenay. We shall see. More of the usual, that is , weeding (but no grass cutting!) and tieing up of the outside tomatoes which are doing rather well.

Colorado bettle larvae munching my tomatoes!

   Chickens are being chickens, chicks are growing, sheep are being sheep.          
   The weather is forecast to continue to be hot and dry and in my neck of the woods it is humid.