September has arrived and with it cooler nights, a slowing harvest and tidy up time. A time to think about what was right this year and what wasn’t. It is time to start clearing away the weeds that have crept up on us in the last month and to start digging the areas that have been cleared of this summers crops.

The area in the picture, now all weeds, was three rows of peas that a nice little mouse,or two cleared for me before they were more than 2in high and I haven’t had the time to remove the sticks and dig it over. So it is line now for a makeover as the onion bed has had. The weeds were removed before the soil was culivated and raked out then it was planted with a row of pertetual spinach and a green manure sown on the rest of the bed. This will give me something to eat through the winter and the manure will portect the soil.

There is still plenty to harvest, at least until we have a frost, when a good number of the plants will be killed off. I will still be planting some more crops for the winter in the tunnels although tunnel 1 is nearly full. Tunnel 2 is beginning to empty, the sweetcorn is now finished, the cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers are slowing down so I can start planning to use this soon.

JOBS FOR THE WEEK
1 Tidy potato bed. – Done
2 Tidy round cold frames – Done
3 Weed carrot bed
4 Weed round compost bins

WORK DONE THIS WEEK
SUNDAY
Pick
Water
MONDAY
Pull sweetcorn up in tunnel 2
Pick
Water
Weed leeks
Weed tunnels
Check onions to see if dry – no
Work over onion bed and plant out spinach
Transplant seedlings in tunnel 1
TUESDAY
Pick
Water
WEDNESDAY
Start clearing potato bed
Pick
Water
THURSDAY
Finish weeding potato bed
Pick
Water
FRIDAY
Start clearing round cold frames
Pick
Water
SATURDAY
Work today, not much done
Pick
Water
Weed round cold frames

CROPS PICKED THIS WEEK
Tomatoes
Chillies
Peppers
Cucumbers
Courgettes
Apples
Climbing beans
Calabrese
Cabbage
Sprouts
Sweetcorn