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Lifted onions

Dug trial variety potatoes

Took part in Radio Leeds show again

Thinned some of the outdoor bunches of grapes.

More watering

Very little rain

Started picking purple climbing French beans Cosse Violette

Peas finished

Picking lots of plums Oullins Gage - no wasps yet

Planted winter cabbage - Sabrosa and cauliflower Aalsmeer

Started harvesting second bed of cabbage - Kalibro and calabrese - Montclano

Annual flower patch - with video

Hornet - no idea which one

Rain on the way

Still waiting

Was that it?

Rain forecast - so far not a lot

Harvesting our best early August veg - video

A disastrous trial potato harvest - video

At last our winter cabbages are planted - video

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We had a heavy rain shower

Sowed green manure - buckwheat and grazing rye.

Visited North Yorkshire Moors

Picking Oullins Gage plum and greengages.

Pruned out old canes of Glencoe and Black Jewel raspberries and tied in the new cane

Pruned on bed of jostaberries and gooseberries

Potted up some rooted runners from Sweetheart strawberry

Made and froze tomato sauce

Picked first bunch of grapes from garden greenhouse.

At last we had rain

Watering's not required

Wrong sort of rain or soil?

Green manure and a summer storm - video

Time for a few other jobs.

A return to watering duties

August flowers - an update - video

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Lifted more potatoes

Prepared bed for autumn onions

Planted purple sprouting broccoli

Thinned more grapes.

Cut out this years fruiting canes of summer raspberries and tayberry

Tied in tayberry

Picked lots of greengages.

Had some rain so less watering needed temperatures dropped too.

Picked first sweetcorn cob

Picked cauliflowers and cabbage from second planting

It's still summer isn't it?

Forgotten what a wet day is like

I'm to blame

A mid August tour of our plot - video

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Dug Charlotte potatoes

Started pruning redcurrants

Started cutting back overgrown shrubs in the garden and tidying front garden bed

Potted up camellia cuttings

Shouldn't borage flowers be blue?

Beginning to feel a bit like autumn

Spuds, caulis and green manure

Plum and greengage heaven - video