By Phil, on August 4th, 2013%  The day’s harvest, 4 Aug 2013 Todays harvest was lettuce, pak choi (from our neighbour), french beans, broad beans, chard, spinnach, red currants (4lb), black currants, garlic, carrots, baby leeks (thinnings), turnips, courgettes. (Not shown: some wonderful raspberries and strawberries that didn’t make it home.)
Also cut the grass, did a fair amount of weeding. The garlic s now all up, as are the over-wintered broad beans and the spinach (which went to seed before we got much from it).
 Bed I, courgette, squash and sweetcorn Quite happy with how things are going this year. The courgette squash and sweetcorn in all look good, and the french beans are now beginning, though the dwarf beans are a little too little.
 Bed C, French beans
By Phil, on July 21st, 2013% First visit after about 3 weeks due to holiday, during which time there has been lots of sun and not much rain. We weren’t expecting good things, but were very pleasantly surprised. For one thing, looks like a friendly neighbour had been doing some watering for us. Thanks! We did lots more today.
Pretty much everything looks good. Potatoes are healthy and flowering.
Most of the beans are looking OK (though the dwarf beans haven’t really got going), and the lettuce is ready.
The garlick is ready, the leeks OK (thinned out the musselburgh that we started on windowsill, the last lot sowed direct into the ground failed), radishes were ready a week or two back, but still (just) OK, the spinach is heading to seed but still (just) OK, chard, turnips and beetroot looking good.
The brassica and parsnips are looking good, but needed weeding.
Berries and currants looking good, though we should have tied up the raspberries as some of them have keeled over. Sweetcorn, squashes and first lot of carrots all good (but later sowing of carrot have failed)
Brought home loads of lovely red currants (4.5lb!), strawberries and raspberries. Lots of broadbeans, a courgette on its way to being a marrow, baby leeks and small carrots (thinnings), and giant radishes, some garlick, and a couple of lettuces.
Big difference to last year.
           
By Phil, on August 12th, 2012% Picked rest of broad beans, which have been good but late this year. We have runners and some french beans on the way.
 Runner beans, bed E Carrots tops are being nibbled or broken by something.
 few remaining carrots There aren’t many of them, but the turnips, beetroot and parsnip look OK.
 Turnips, beetroot, parsnip Berries are rampant, especially the blackberry. Picked a decent number of raspberries, red currants, and a few strawberries.
Other beds look pretty dismal, though harvested more anya: small but no sign of blight/rot.
By Phil, on July 18th, 2012% A depressing trip, really. The courgette, squash and sunflowers are gone, some of the (anya) potatoes have what looks like black leg, the black and red-currants have been eaten by birds, the weeds are rampant. On the plus side we should finally get some broad beans in a week or so.
Planted some carrots in a raised bin (away from carrot fly) and some perpetual spinnach.
Dug up some new potatoes, got a few strawberries and raspberries.
By Phil, on March 6th, 2011% Planted ~100 onion sets (sturon globe) and 50 shallots (longor) at end of beds G & H nearest Donald’s.
Cleared top growth from side of bed I and bed J and around currant bushes, used it to fill in hole where cold frame used to be. Dug out couch grass root from current bushes and tried to improve soil with with leaf mould from where black berry grows.
Harvested the last of the parsnips and the celeriac from bed D, got more than I thought I would.
Continue reading Sun. 6 Mar 2011
By Jules, on August 1st, 2010% Made redcurrant jelly:
Stewed 1.8kg berries in 1.8lt water, strained for several hours (don’t squeeze or the jelly goes cloudy – not that we mind that, would rather use all the juice!!) then added 1lb sugar for each pint of juice.
Potted up in sterilised jars. If it is good enough I might dare to enter it for the allotment show in September!!!
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