Don't feed anything until you do have fruits @bonnie102 or you will just end up with 6 foot leaves. Also cut the watering to every other day, even wait till you see leaves curling or the top droop before watering. This kind of stress makes them produce flowers.
We got our first three punnets of strawberries today, the other two were already sold when I though to run out and photograph the last one. They're Allegro which is a very early type.
And some Rhubarb, the cola bottle is there to give a sense of scale the sauce pan is a 14L job so it makes everything look rather small. I chopped it up and boiled it then strained added 2kg of sugar and bottled it, it made 4L of rhubarb cordial . The lovely bunch of fat hen seedlings.. well I called them spinach and they went into a dhal. also delicious.
We're also digging lots of new potatoes (Solist) But we're really struggling with water here this year, it's been 14 days since we had any rain, and that was 1.5cm in the last month that is all we have had, there's nothing on the 10 day forcast either Farmers have been put under emergency measures, meaning they can use set aside land among other things as obviously the grass is not growing.
These two cucumbers now make 7 picked. What makes them unusual is they are from an outdoor plant, this is a bit early even for Beth Alpha. Coaster there to show size.
@scroggin Our cucumbers are only just getting going with tiny cues. Wish we had some of your cues as we do like to have tzatziki at lunch in the summer months.
Our first globe artichokes and our first harvest of dwarf broad beans.
Nice harvest, this is the last year I will grow broad beans. I know I only grow a dwarf variety but I hardly get anything back pair that with the aphids it just doesn't seem worth it....... This was my harvest for the year, only a few more left to pick
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