Harvest

      The gathering of produce from the garden continues. Haricot vert (14.5kgs so far), strawberries, sweet peppers, carrots and beetroot all taken this last week. Despite the poor start to the year the season has ended up being quite bountiful. Jack Ice lettuce seed gathered and dried haricot vert shelled and ready to try to make baked beans! The strawberries continue to surprise with another approx half a kilo picked and weather permitting there are still more berries on the plants to ripen. The grass this year does not seem to have stopped growing at all! Grass mowed once more and there has been more rain so no doubt the grass will grow again. 

   The weather has been quite acceptable for the time of year, some sun, some rain and temperatures generally upper teens.  

   The chickens continue to be chickens and the chicks are growing with one or two showing signs that they are actually cockerals. Egg laying is pretty much as it has been over the last few weeks with an average of two eggs a day this last week. It cannot be long before the new hens start to lay.

Haricot vert patch number 3!