Many plants are a week or more late in maturing this year, however, there is most definately a burst of growth going on and stuff is catching up with itself. Oh, there has been a good crop of weeds! Sweet peppers, melons, squash, pumpkins are all at last showing signs of getting somewhere! Winter leeks have been planted and the winter cabbage is well established and looking good.
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| VERY large beetroot from the polytunnel |
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| Winter leeks planted out |
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| Butternut squash |
Tomatoes have been a disaster this year being struck down by blight. Fortunately my potatoes having been planted early did not suffer so much. I have had one or two potatoes dug up rotten but not in large numbers. Lettuce, sweet peppers, haricot vert, cabbage, courgettes (oh boy how many courgettes can one eat I ask) and carrots all harvested this last week. Usual mowing of grass and weeding and the lifting of potatoes continues! I have started to gather some seeds and I managed to get a few tomato seeds from one plant that I had been given and whose tomatoes are very nice indeed! Variety Burpee.
On the chicken front egg production has remained steady with a slight increase to 2.6 eggs a day. One of the cockerals, who we had named Mr. Angry, decided to attack the ride on mower and this time he came off second best and badly injured his leg. I had to despatch him. He was due to be culled sometime anyway as he was a very aggressive bird.
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