11 August 2008 at 9:04 pm (Allotment, Garden, Pictures, Vegetables, fruit)
I didn’t get round to picking the garden gooseberries. When I went out to pick them, I found that the wasps and other creatures had moved in on them.
Below is a haul from June.
A bag of goodies from July. The broad beans were destined for the freezer.
Another July harvest.
The spring onion bed with weeds of clover.
A round cabbage harvested yesterday – it was very very tasty with lots of flavour.
Beetroot bed, with some celeriac. Think we have too much beetroot!
Cauli, well can I actually call it a cauliflower?
Latest haul.
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1 August 2008 at 10:10 am (Allotment, Vegetables, Weather)
Where is the summer? One week of summer weather is replaced with rain again and the slugs/snails have come out to play. Was away and the potatoes I was growing in the back garden in a box have been almost stripped bare of leaves by molluscs.
Beetroot – what are we going to do with it all. Son likes raw grated beetroot; OH likes it roasted. I made a Borscht with it and it was nice. The last Borscht I made before that was using the Chioggia beetroot and it didn’t come out right – it wasn’t red. Sowed more beetroot mid-July so …..!
Carrots are doing nicely too. Except, a bit patchy in places. Weeds have had a field day – the new allotment wasn’t weeded for 2 years (the tenants just let it run riot) so as we’ve taken it over, we have 7+ years of weed seeds in the soil. Fumitory weed looks a bit carrot-like so perhaps some carrot seedlings have been weeded…
We have 2 parsnip plants from a whole packet of seeds.
Onions – some bolted. In June, there was a festival of sound and music using vegetables. So, we thought we’d take the bolting bit of onion and try to fashion a flute. Well, it didn’t really work but we weren’t precise. However, blowdarts work and son was happy playing with it.
Potatoes a mixed bag. The maincrop look healthier plants than the earlies, but we still manage to get some sort of crop out.
Garlic – overwintered, fantastic.
Peas – yum.
Broad beans overwintered did well. And a spring sown bunch have already finished cropping but only blighted with blackfly. I didn’t notice choc. spot this time. Runner beans totally failed to germinate. Climbing French Beans instead are going up the canes meant for the RBs.
We had a marrow (or was it an oversized courgette?). The pumpkin/squash plants are rambling away.
I’ll get round sometime to putting pictures up on here.
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