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August 2019
Details of what was sown/planted in August
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by clicking here
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
1 - 4 August
Lots of showers caught us out at the allotment.
Planted dwarf French beans in the bed vacated by early potatoes.
Lifted trial varieties of potatoes, Elfe, Premiere, Jazzy, British Queen, Rudolf and Apache
Lifted half of Rocket potatoes
Picked first climbing French beans - Goldfield
Picked first blackberries and lots of blueberries
Continued picking blackcurrants
Take a look around our garden - video
Six potato varieties revealed - video
5 - 11 August
Very showery and windy - cardoon has been flattened
Dug Winston and Vivaldi potatoes
Cut back and tied in summer raspberries
Visited Peak Railway Gala
Rudolph broccoli produced a sprout!
More variety in our harvest boxes
Update on suspected clopyralid contamination of grow bags - video
A blustery afternoon on the plot - video
12 - 18 August
Gale force winds devastated cardoon and blew down apple tree in the garden
Pruned and tied in Glencoe raspberry
Lifted autumn and spring planted onions
Spring planted onions set out to dry
Lots of harvesting
Lifted Nadine, Osprey and Rocket potatoes
Cleared spent broad beans
More gale force winds and rain
Digging potatoes and pruning raspberry - video
Autumn onion harvest, first apples and spring cabbage- video
An afternoon on the plot - video
Lost in the gales - one apple tree
Storm damage - one apple tree - video
19 - 25 August
Hot and sunny at the end of the week
Lifted more potatoes
Planted All Year Round cauliflowers
Small white caterpillars removed
Harvested and froze coriander
Sowed more spring onions, coriander and spinach
Started bean test on compost
Tidied strawberries - cut off runners etc
Summer returns - too hot for lifting potatoes
Bird's eye view of the plot - mid August
Digging more spuds and removing unwanted strawberry runners - video
26 - 31 August
Very hot week
Removed some crops that that had finished
Trimmed the apple hedge
Weekend in Norfolk
Visited the Sandringham estate
Visited North Norfolk railway steam gala
Record breaking temperatures for August
Very hot August plot tour - video