August 2020
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 09 August
Lots of tidying and weeding on the allotment
Planted Safari dwarf French beans
Planted Autumn Giant cauliflowers
Planted leek Cairngorm and Armor
Dug potatoes Ulster Prince, Casablanca and International Kidney
Lifted first carrots Romance
Picked first Mannings greengages and Victoria plums
Calabrese, cabbage and cauliflowers ready
Sweetcorn pollen rope so I’m brushing the stems to help with pollination
Pricked out basil
Equal hottest August day
Lots of vegetables to choose from
One day heatwave – a bit unusual
Ulster Prince potato reveal video
Carrots Romance – video
Early Potato – Casablanca and International Kidney – video
10 - 16 August
Tidying on plot
Picked first kohlrabi and Cobra Frebch climbing beans
Visited Clumber Park
Courgette glut has begun
Picking All Gold raspberries
Too hot for digging potatoes
A week of storms and torrential rain?
An afternoon out
17 - 23 August
Picked first Apricot Dream tomatoes
Lifted trial potatoes – Sarpo Una, Maris Piper, Mayan Rose and Gemson
Climbing French beans starting to produce
Starting pulling second batch of peas
Planted broad bean plug plants
Picked Victoria plums
Sowed more parsley
Vegetable bonanza
Weather’s going downhill
Trial potato reveal – video
An experiment – autumn cropping broad beans – video
24 - 31 August
Lifted the second bed of onions
Picked Bramley apples and some Discovery
Lifted Apache, Osprey and Elfe potatoes
Harvested Earlibird sweet corn and froze the kernels
Thinned the few swedes
Sowed a tub of coriander
Squirreling away harvests
Cold for summer
Almost a frost in August
Never Give Up – Transformation of Plot 30
First Maincrop Potatoes harvested – video