@barry island, this is why more experienced growers, hedge our bets, some things do well others not so well. If you are short on space , and or new to gyo it's more difficult, as you rely on what you have put in to work.
Watered all the beds this morning, unlike a lot of you we haven't had any decent rain in quite a bit. Pulled all the ruby chard as more was bolting tonight, sowed more in in the bean patch. Picked more mangetout. Thinned the leaks again (they were multisown) am down to 4 in a bunch now. Pleasantly surprised at how much veg I'm getting for my 1st year trying to do a lot.
Hope the rain holds off then @GWRS I got wet this morning as it kept drizzling while I watered the greenhouse and veg patch ( things were surprisingly dry) Did some tying up to the toms and cucumbers . Netted the strawberries. Dead headed more roses, the poor things are hating the wet. Then gave up, but took in two cucumbers and a few spring onions with me.😁
A session today revealed that, we have early blight on our plots, it's on the tomatoes and potatoes. Although I do grow some resistant cultivars, not all are. We desperately need a warm DRY spell to help suppress it. A further annoyance a whole batch of lettuce planted in a raised bed where the garlic had been, completely eaten by slugs and snails. Dug 2 roots of early spuds, harvested, 2 courgettes, lettuce, and more cherries.
Got to allotment this afternoon and re-netted sprouts as they had out grown the current net Picked more strawberries & raspberries @Allotment Boy , looks like I’ve got some blight on my main crop potatoes , so cut the stems off those that looked effected and they are now in main rubbish bin Wasn’t sure so just goggled potatoe blight and I think it is , never happened at allotment before , next time I go up will have look round and see if anybody else looks effected , have put a notice on allotments Facebook page
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I got wet this morning as it kept drizzling while I watered the greenhouse and veg patch ( things were surprisingly dry)
Did some tying up to the toms and cucumbers .
Netted the strawberries.
Dead headed more roses, the poor things are hating the wet. Then gave up, but took in two cucumbers and a few spring onions with me.😁
Picked more strawberries & raspberries
@Allotment Boy , looks like I’ve got some blight on my main crop potatoes , so cut the stems off those that looked effected and they are now in main rubbish bin
Wasn’t sure so just goggled potatoe blight and I think it is , never happened at allotment before , next time I go up will have look round and see if anybody else looks effected , have put a notice on allotments Facebook page