September 2022 Video Diary

25 September 2022

Lifting an exceptionally good crop of carrots

I wasn’t expecting much of a crop from these carrots but I was well chuffed with the crop.

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22 September 2022

Ruby‘s day out to the North Yorkshire Moors National Park

At the end of September the North Yorkshire Moors Railway hold their annual steam gala. We decided to visit the North Yorkshire Moors to view and photograph the trains and take Ruby on a few walks on the moors.

 

20 September 2022

Lifting and storing carrots over winter

I lifted our first batch of maincrop carrots. The variety is Flakkee. They’ve done much better than I expected because I didn’t give them much water through the summer. They will be stored in dry compost in crates in our home greenhouse for use over winter.

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20 September 2022

Strawberry bed – autumn treatment

This is the first time in several years that we’ve planted up our strawberry bed without planting the strawberries through weed control fabric. We’ve found through experience that after a few years the soil in the bed becomes very compacted and the strawberry plants struggle to survive. So we planted our strawberry bed this year without weed control fabric. We’ve kept the soil hoed all summer and now the plants have finished producing we thought we’d spend some time preparing the bed for winter.

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18 September 2022

Will it work? Storing beetroot for winter

Last year we successfully stored carrots in crates of old dry compost in our home greenhouse. This year we are going to see if the same method will work for beetroot.

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11 September 2022

Just enough rain…

A few heavy but short lived showers have converted a couple of beds from rock hard ground into easily digable beds. It’s all about getting as ready as possible for next year for the next couple of months before any really bad winter weather sets in.

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09 September 2022

Last potato reveal of the year

When we’d finished planting all our maincrop potatoes we had a few tubers of each variety left. We had enough to plant up a small bed. I’d left this bed until now hoping that some rain would soften up the ground making the potatoes easier to lift. Turns out I was wrong.

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08 September 2022

Clips of Nostell Priory and Ruby

A few clips from this week’s trip to Nostell Priory. We didn’t see the swans or cygnets but Ruby was fascinated by the cows. She’s seen them before but not quite as close. There’s only a 3 wire electric fence keeping the cows in the field. Of course, Ruby doesn’t know that.

02 September 2022

Some Ruby clips having her teeth cleaned being groomed a tired Ruby after a long day

Just a few odd clips of Ruby supposedly having her teeth brushed, being groomed and in her favourite spot on the sofa. Ruby had been chasing a ball in the field at Nostell Priory, then had a walk there as well as having an afternoon walk at Wentworth castle.