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Well it's been a while so here's what's been happening.
Bad news first ! Think I may lose my french beans to Sclerotinia - this is doubly annoying as they were beginning to produce beans all over the place. I have also lost several hundred cabbages to the pigeons - that'll teach me to be too fussy about weed control - tried to make the place look pterry but all I did was let the pigeons see them more clearly !!
Cucumbers are going bananas (if that's possible) The largest of the rows is now at six ft plus with the other six rows varying between 3ft and 6ft depending on planting times. Every plant is dripping with cukes - so far have harvested 60 and you would't know I had touched them yet .
On my fifth crop of lettuces and am now sowing and planting 150 per week - 50 each of Charita, Amorina and Little Gem. Swiss Chard (Silver Chard) has been cropped once at 18" to 24" tall and is growing back strongly. First Spinach is nearly ready and runner beans are about to start flowing. Outside, my peas are still flowering their sox off, the broadies are just starting to drop their flowers and produce baby pods, the courgettes will be on-line any day now, the Lady Christl and Charlotte tatties are flowering, the Red Dukes are just beginning to think about flowering, the onions are going okay, the red onions are too though a number have bolted as a result of the long hot dry spell we have experienced recently, te shallots are dividing and beginning to swell, the carrots and spring onions have been slow for the same reasonas the red onions are bolting. Further sowings made this month include 150m Rocket, 450m Purple Top Milan turnips, 100m Silver Chard, 50m Coriander and 150m Hurst Greenshaft peas.
Later ............
