MY PLOT AUGUST 19th TO AUGUST 25th
THIS WEEKS SHOW
Gorton Horticultural Society
Collier House, Wellington St, Gorton
Saturday 2.00 to 5.00 pm
Sunday 12.00 to 4.30 pm
It always seems to catch me out in August, I think that there is plenty of time to pick the produce and water the tunnels and the outdoor crops and still manage to carry on doing the other jobs that I want to get on with. The time just seems to disappear, it takes so long to go through a row of beans( I have two rows of climbing beans and a bed of dwarf beans) picking the beans that are ready.
Then there are the potatoes to dig and tomatoes to pick plus the cucumber, courgettes…… It really is a good time. The only snag is, those little things called weeds, they just love growing and making the place untidy!
The tomatoes have recovered from the blight attack, and are putting on lots of new growth and new trusses, so we should get a reasonable amount of fruit off them. I will have to stop them soon as they have now reached the tunnel roof. The sweetcorn in the tunnel now only has some secondary cobs on them, we might be lucky with them, and the outside blocks are catching up and will soon be ready for picking.
The weeds are doing very well at the moment, every time that I look around the plot there are more growing, so when I have finished picking it is time to pull a lot more out.
The onions are all in the tunnel finishing drying off, most of them were alright but some were not as firm as they should have been - we’ll see what happens. This weather is suiting the leeks which are growing well and standing up.
Some of the root crops sown earlier this summer! are now picking up and look as if they might give me a crop. I have sown a lot of carrots in tunnel 1 to make up for the poor germination in the carrrot bed.
JOBS FOR THE WEEK
- Weed
- Prepare base for shed
- Plant up rest of tunnel
WORK DONE THIS WEEK
Sunday
Water
Pick
Dig potatoes
Side shoot tomatoes and cucumbers
Weed
Monday
Pick
Weed
Water
Tuesday
Pick
Water
Wednesday
Pick
Water
Thursday
Water
Pick
CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Peppers
Chillies
Aubergines
Grapes
Courgettes
Swetcorn
Lettuce
Cauliflowers
Calabrese
Beans runners and french
Cabbage
Radish
