A week can make a big difference when you are gardening and the passing of this last week I think was one of those weeks.The signs are there in the garden and in the hedgerows. Autumn is coming. The haricot vert (1st sowing), courgettes, spagetti squash, cucumbers and melons are all showing signs of coming to their end. Lots of blackberries in the hedgerows and what apples there are are falling from the trees. Weather wise the mornings have been cool and yes the sun has shone but mostly to a maximum of around 20C. The evenings are pulling in!
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| Golden Bantam sweet corn |
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| Sweet peppers aubergine haricot vert |
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| 1kg of strawberries |
At last the Desiree main crop potatoes have all be lifted. Grand total of some 131 kgs of spuds! Roughly twice as much as last year despite the blight. It has been a long time since I have had a good crop of sweet peppers. A success this season has been the no dig strawberry bed. Latest picking, a kilogram, is shown in the photograph. A few tomatoes are being picked from the poly tunnel which is a little compensation for loosing all my outside ones. Hitting a lettuce scarcity patch as one lot rapidly came to an end, the chickens decided that they fancied another lot and the third lot have only just about established themselves. As usual grass mowed although I have to say the grass does seem to have slowed up. I guess that is because there has not been any significant rain.
On the chicken front average daily egg production is way down this week. Only 1.3 eggs a day. Half of last weeks average. I cannot think of any particular reason except its August and very often at this time of year a hen will stop laying. Mrs Hen has now abandoned her chicks to their fate and rejoined the cockeral and hen.
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