Grow Your Own Magazine

2nd November and I was workin in my T shirt all day today. A belter of a day !
Weeded my celeriac bed, made up a box for a customer to collect (tatties, carrots onions, leeks, lettuce, celeriac, parsley and chillies) then ripped out the remaining cucumber plants, dug over and fed that area of the tunnel and planted out lettuce and radicchio.
Started working out my business plan for next year - basing it on expanding the business as far as I think I can manage on my own, with a view...

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Not much exciting happening at the moment, just keeping the slugs at bay in the tunnel, making up boxes for deliveries, sorting seeds out, making up seed order for next year and deciding on plan of action for next year, re what to grow, how much of it to grow and where to grow it.
Np rain today, just very strong south westerly winds - heavy rain forecast for tomorrow.
Had small halloween party in the house tonight. Iona Iona and I carved her pumpkin lantern, then she got dressed as...

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Looking back on the year, my biggest disappointment was the decimation of my sweetcorn crop by a still anonymous felon!

Didn't get to eat a single one!!

The Doctor

All the above today, and a cold cold wind - still at least my IBC tanks are being replenished. See what I mean about turning into a farmer - never happy with the weather !
Today I delivered weekly ration of veg to the local shop in Portmahomack, along with 10 dozen eggs - another ten dozen on Friday.
Went for a crop inspection this morning to decide what will go into the veg boxes this week. They will contain the following - potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbage, white turnips, parsley...

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Well, I got the plot at the beginning of July, and to say it was a bit of a mess would be an understatement. Apparently untended for 10 years, the previous tennant was a lay-preacher who had some unusual methods of cultivating the land.

A full plot of 10 rods, it was completely overgrown. The first 7 yards or so were dominated by brambles, as was the entirety of one 35 yard side. The farthest 4 yards was simply a forest of nettles and inbetween the extremes: a grassland.
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