I’ve been meaning to post for weeks, just can’t seem to find the time! The main reason for running this blog was so that I could come back in future years & compare notes. Not much point if I don’t make any so better start again now – there’s a lot to report. I’ll take it one veg at a time….
Spuds. This years crop was 3kg each of pentland javelin and saxon. In the end, probably 2.5kg of each got planted, the rest finding hom,ees in Dads garden. No blight this year, thankfully, and the plants grew well but didn’t get a lot of watering while we were on hols early august so the remaining plants (all the saxons) were looking a bit dead. Decided the time had come to lift them last week. The dry soil has kept the slugs out, and there was only a little scab (always get scab) to spoil things. In total, there were about 35kg of spuds stored. So, with whats been eaten already thats probably a total of about 50kg. There’s also a few pink fur apples which are still in the ground, these were left over tubers from last years harvest which I couldn’t bear to bin so stuck ‘em in odd places round the garden.
Onions. It was a poor year I think, considering I planted both onions & shallots. The onions looked like rotting as early summer was very wet so I decided to harvest. I think the vield was only about 6kg, probably half last years harvest. Garlic was a bit crap too – next year I’m going to plant these earlier, before christmas probably.
Tomatoes have been doing very well, and seem to be ripening early, we’ve been munching at them for several weeks. The tiger ones are great and very early. harbinger are coming on ok but the odd monetyymake I planted is producing much larger fruit. The bush variety is ridiculously packed in on the plants, very difficult to harvest. No real disease problems to speak of, kept the blossom end rot at bay in the greenhouse (only 2 casulties) and outside there was one blight fright, but since binning that one everything else looks OK. Because we had loads of plants this year, I pinched out a lot of the outdoor plants at 3 trusses to try to make sure the ripened, seems to be working.
Cucumbers. Got an inital bach of about 4 per plant, then nothing! Now however they have come back to life and are sprouting loads of new fruit. With the initial batch were lots of male flowers, none at all this time round which is strange.
Sweet peppers in the greenhouse: Crap. One small pepper so far.
Aubergines: Sowed very late and consequently only in flower the last week or so. A couple of tiny fruits starting, not sure if there will be anything worthwhile.
Chillies: doing well as usual, some nice big fruits, still green. Not exactly rocket science, growing chillies.
More later…