Maybe one day soon it will it get hot! I have had memory photos coming up saying how hot has been. Thirty seven degrees centigrade was not unusual. Temperatures has been languishing in the lower twenty degree centigrade at best and more often is the middle teens! And it has been damp, yes rain. Many crops in the garden are really enjoying the cooler wetter weather but a bit of sunshine is sorely needed.
Weeding, grass cutting are the norm. I have sorted out my strawberries and removed runners and small strawberry plants which means the bed is now fully populated. I have made a trial strawberry bed in the poly tunnel and I also have twelve plants in pots as reserves! Over fifty plants gathered. Great Lakes lettuce planted out along with Sanguine beetroot. More Touchon carrots sown as the weather favours sowing of carrot seed....cool and damp! Crops gathered this week include lettuce, cabbage, mangetout and new potatoes. The first early, ANOE, potatoes are close to the end of the crop, second earlies BF-15 to come next! My attempt are growing Brussels sprouts again from seed has failed so I gave in and bought a dozen plants from the local market. These have been planted out in the brassica bed. In a vain attempt to grow some early purple sprouting I sowed some seed in an outside the poly tunnel bed and they have germinated. Probably too late to be honest but nothing ventured, nothing gained and there is still a long way to go to the end of the season. Second sowing of haricot vert has not done well. I suspect critters rather than failure of the seed as the first sowing has been very good. Anyway, resowed in the gaps and am prepared to sow another bed come the end of July.
Nothing untoward on the chicken front. Chicks are growing and I get the idea Muma hen wants out of the enclosure. Found her perched on the fence line! Daily average is up marginally, 2.8 eggs, so maybe more eggs are coming!
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| Blackwater Mountain water melon |
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| 5 Dessert melons |
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| Courghette row |
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