At last I can’t complain about the weather being against us growers. This mixture of hot spells and rain is just what is needed to bring crops on target for a reasonable year. The outdoor crops are picking up and showing signs of cropping well, and the inside ones are doing better as well.

The courgettes have doubled in size and are showing signs of producing fruits each day. The runner beans are starting to give more than the odd bean and the climbing french beans have started too. I have eaten my first sweetcorn from the inside plants and the outside ones are fattening up as well. Last year we had a plague of rats, and they ate most of the corn on the site a day or two before it was ready, so far so good no signs of them yet.
My potatoes are not showing much sign of the tubas being affected by blight as I am digging them up, lets hope that I cut the haulms early enough.

I have lifted all my onions after the leaves had fallen over and they are drying off in the tunnel for a week or so, before I store them in crates. The calabrese is suffering because of the rain we had and it is only producing small first heads and sprouting style secondary ones.
We seem to have overcome the efffects of blight in the tunnel, the tomatoes are growing well again, minus a few leaves and some fruit, still time for more fruit to set and grow.

The experiment with cabbage in bottles seems to be getting results, they are begining to produce more leaves and are starting to heart up.

JOBS FOR THE WEEEK
1 Transplant the lettuce out. Done
2 Weed some more. Done
3 Dig over the onion bed
4 Remove old compost heap. Yes done!
5 Clear broad beans
6 Harden of seedlings. Done

WORK DONE THIS WEEK
Sunday
Dig potatoes
Pick
Water
Transplant seedlings
Monday
Dig potatoes
Dig over area for lettuce and plant out
Water
Tie in grape vines
Tuesday
Weed tomato bed in tunnel 2
Water
Pick
wednesday
Weed
Water
Pick
Thursday
No time today
Water
Friday
Remove old compost heap- At last
Weed
Water
Pick
Saturday
Working today so I only managed to water

CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Sweetcorn
Broad beans
Runner beans
French beans, dwarf and climbing
Cabbage
Beetroot
Courgettes