July 2021
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 11 July
Visited Nostell
harvested calabrese, rhubarb, cabbage, strawberries, onions, broad beans and sweet Williams.
Planted up patio pots
Thinned parsnips
Netted blueberries
Picked first courgettes, sweet peas, cauliflowers, gooseberries and raspberries.
The focus has changed
Real rain
A wet start to July
Great day for the allotments – a thoroughly wet day
Plenty of rain for the beginning of July
Nostell Priory Cygnets – video
12 - 18 July
Hot week
Thinned mooli
Visited the coast at Fraisthorpe
Visited Nostell
Planted broad beans
Too hot to plot
Hottest day of the year brings issue
Ruby helps with potato reveal – video
19 - 25 July
Lifted first Casablanca potatoes – signs of blight
Lifted first Charlotte potatoes – lack of water meant small potatoes
First picking of Masterpiece Green Longpod broad beans
Lifted autumn planted onions
Lifted spring planted garlic
lifted first Romance carrots
Sowed spring onions, radish, spinach and lettuce in crates in the garden
Made courgette, pea and mint soup
Picked first Mozart cabbage
Picked first dahlias
New hottest day of the year
Another hot one
Potato reveal – video
26 - 31 July
Lots of harvesting
Picked first tomatoes
Picked blackcurrants
Picked Hinnonmaki Yellow gooseberries
Dug Amsterdam Forcing carrots
Dug Casablanca potatoes
Rained and was windy.
Casablanca potato harvest – video
The heatwave had finished – has summer?
Have we waved goodbye to summer?
A wet month with a drought
