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August seed sowing schedule
Details of what was sown/planted in August

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August harvesting schedule
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Picked more figs

Preach tree has red spider mite!

There's the correct way and there is my way - planting lavender

Sowed lettuce, salad leaves and sweet Willliams,

Potted on new rhubarb

Lots of dead heading and tidying

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Took lavender cuttings

Cut back plot cherry and cut out old fruited branches and canes of early raspberries and blackcurrants

Cleared olf pea plants and planted lettuce.

Trimmed kiwi

Second cropping fruit

More like chess

A bit of a lull

Dug a bed of potatoes

Lifted more autumn onions

Strimmed grass on the plot

Removed runners from strawberry plants

Weeded carrots

Dead headed annual flowers

Already clearing away

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Long tailed tits are difficult to photograph

General tidying in garden

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First aubergines and peppers setting fruit

A new way of harvesting lettuce for us

Harvested first Japanese wineberries and runner beans

Beginnings and endings

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Helenium Chelsey should be red!

Tidied garden - cutting back, dead heading etc.

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Cut out old canes from summer raspberries

Cut back more strawberry runners

Lots of harvesting

Running amok - strawberries

The outdoor tomatoes and plums are ripening

Unexpected tomato crop

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Tree following - The medlar

Wet, wet, wet,

Not what I expected - potatoes under weed control

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Dug potatoes

Lifted rest if autumn onions

Had first nectarine

Dead headed annual flowers on plot

A pium week - harvesting

Not much difference - potatoes

General tidy up in the garden
Had first peach which wasn't fully ripe.
Worth the wait - orchids

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Visited Parcevall Hall Gardens

A visit to Wharfedale

Wet again

Two wet days in a week

This year's annual flower bed

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Harvesting - plums. apples and runner beans starting to feature in the harvests

Dangerous pickings - plums

Harvesting

Strimmed grass paths on the plot

Dead headed buddleias

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The annual flower bed is standing up well after heavy downpours

The beans are now growing well.

The nectarines have fallen from the tree in the greenhouse

Seeing red - harvest

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Picked first grapes from the greenhouse

Planted out lettuce seedlings

Rained off big time

Trimmed aucuba and garrya

Pruned blackcurrants

Extended grapevine support

Grapevine extension

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Picked Bramley apples from tree behind garden greenhouse

Picked first aubergine from garden greenhouse

Larger tomatoes starting to ripen

Picked a peach

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Away from home visited Rut;and Owl and Falconry Centre
Bought Lobelia × speciosa Fan Burgundy for red and yellow border
I've got my eye on you - bird of prey photos

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Away from home lunch on The South Yorkshireman

Weeded leeks
Removed leaves from plot greenhouse tomatoes
Picked first Clapton cauliflower, yelloiw French beans and Victoria plums,
Dug more potatoes.
Days out, Montyed tomatoes and calmest day

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The will to survive - harvest