Leek Moth
Thought being at a different site would do away with leek moth problems but I was wrong. The plants look quite badly infected, and rather than loose the lot I’ve taken the decision to use pesticide and keep fingers crossed that it works and secondary infections don’t set in. Harvested half the desiree potatoes (24kg), 7kg of Cara and 7kg of pink fir apple. Yields on the latter far greater than expected, slightly more from the PFA than Cara for the same length of row! Desiree spuds are all very large, easy to harvest with nearly 100% usable size tubers, some are a bit scabby though. Cara look to have avoided scab better, lots of good size potatoes. PFA are all shapes and sizes of course!
Loads of beans at the moment. Autumn King carrots are getting huge, pulled one whopper from the garden today, enough for a meal in itself. Still harvesting Kohl Rabi, which are now massive but not pithy yet which is very pleasing. Hooligan pumpkins are ripening nicely, doesn’t look like many squashes have formed this year. The aubergines are finally looking productive, interestingly the plants in smaller pots have the most/largest fruit, the ones with more compost have hardly any fruit at all
Sweetcorn are slow to ripen this year, and yeilds dissapointing considering the number of plants, only really getting one smallish cob per plant.
Green sprouting brocolli is very good, good yields at the moment and will definately do this another year.
Loads of cape gooseberries!!
