The weather takes the biscuit again this week. Starts off hot and sunny ends up wet and cool. Grand growing weather, grass, weeds and oh the veg too!
So, this week has seen the usual tasks being done....mowing grass, hoeing and weeding! Along side also picking broad beans, cut a cabbage, pulling lettuce, picking peas, digging new ANOE potatoes and picking delicioius Maris de Bois strawberries. I have been very pleased with my strawberry "no dig" bed despite the pain of weeding it. The strawberries have been excellent and the plants are continuing to produce more strawberries. Runners have been thrown out so that means I will be able to fill up the bed with new plants. Fingers crossed next year could be a bumper crop! Some transplanting done. Three spaghetti squash, the last of the tomato plants, a couple of Burpee tomato shoots that I managed to get to root and my very miserable looking Perfection cucumbers. I have been very disappointed with the cucumber plants this year. The season marches on and the Colorado beetles have appeared. So it is out and about squishing beetles, eggs and larvae when found in an effort to at least contain the outbreak.
Chickens are being chickens and unfortunately I had to despatch a hen who to me had given up on life. She had had an injured leg (too amorous cockeral!) and seemed to be recovering. The broody hen is still sat tight and it is possible by the next blog entry there maybe some chicks. Egg production has been poor more likely due to the hot weather. Average daily amount: 2
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| Pea vines |
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| Broad beans |
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| Burpee tomato plant |
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