August 2022

This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.

01 - 07 August

Li8fted lots of potatoes
Picked Oullins gage plums
Lots of watering mainly peas, squash and parsnips
Tidied leeks and onions
Lifted shallots
Tidied and removed runners from young strawberry plants
Tomatoes starting to ripen
Better than expected
Lifting potatoes – videos

08 - 14 August

Very warm week and so allotment visits were made in the morning. and evening
Lots of watering
Also went to Nostell in the morning
Harvested first green peppers
A topsy turvy week
A proper heatwave
Plot tour – video 

15 - 21 August

Lots of harvesting
Dug up most of the potatoes, 
Lifted some of the onion
Harvested seed from Kent Blue mangetout and Ne Plus Ultra peas
Rain – what rain?

22 - 31 August

Picked and froze more tomatoes and peppers;
Tidied brassicas and leeks
Lifted last bed of onions including and onions
Visited Wentworth castle gardens
Picked first bed of sweet corn and froze it
Something new
A hot and dry August

 

This Post Has 4 Comments

  1. Jo

    You look to have had a good harvest despite the trying conditions this year. That tomato is a whopper.

    1. Susan Garrett

      Surprisingly good, considering, JO

  2. snowbird

    Just wonderful and so varied. Loving Ruby!xxx

    1. Susan Garrett

      Thanks, Dina

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