This August we will mainly be harvesting. Raspberries by the bucket, Strawberries by the wheel barrow, cabbages, broccoli, spuds, runner beans, broad beans, french beans.
Pic from July but you know what I mean:
Spuds 23/08/2015
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| This was from just one plant. |
Went down lotty. Got runner beans, french beans, broad beans and rapsberries. Did a bit of weeding too. Plant I had in greenhouse for yonks is officially identifited as a Foxglove!!
Friday 28th August 2015
Mowed (again), weeded, three bags of weeds done and taken to tip.
Saturday 29th August 2015
Shelf brackets put up in Shed 7 but wood for shelf not ideal so will get some more dug back at home, Got one of the big barrels finished off with a bit of assistance from Phil.
Got cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower plug plants from Wyaston Nurseries, need to get them buggers into ground quickly.
Need to a bit of jiggery pokery moving the catches for the door on the butt-side so it's easy to clip back but think overall these two will work nicely. Be interesting to see how much it's filled up with the rain over this bank holiday weekend.
Sunday 30th August 2015
Tidied greenhouse up a bit at home. Found a good bit of wood for shelf and got that cut to size.
Monday 31st August 2015
Cripes almost September and it's chucking it down with rain and has since the small hours so not going to get much done today. That said I got some lime put down on thirteen for the brassicas purchased on Saturday. Put a shelf on right hand side of shed 7 and also moved the latch so that I can fasten the door back and still have ruddy enormous watter barrels - am thinking of coating them with black bin liner to both warm the water and stop possibility of algae build-up at some point. Brought a load of runner beans and some spuds that had been drying out in shed home so that should have got me into some good books, you'd think!
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| Big old barrels for water - door latch raised to accommodate |
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| New shelf on right - a bit more storagability!! |
