{"id":16553,"date":"2023-06-25T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2022\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2023-06-26T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:23:42","slug":"harvest-time-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2022\/susan\/harvest-time-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest time begns"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As we were treated to some much needed rain, we had a reprieve from watering duties. This freed up time for us to start catching up on some jobs on the allotment that had been put on hold or unavoidably neglected due to the time taken watering.<\/p>

I planted more calabrese, some sprouts and savoy cabbage. Our brassica bed is filling up nicely. Despite the rain, in anticipation of more hot dry weather, I still filled planting holes with water prior to planting. I also added lime when planting to try and cut down the chance of club root. As we have had club root affecting our brassicas, we also try to stick to club root resistant varieties. A list of the varieties that we grow is posted here<\/a>.<\/p>

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Martyn planted some mangetout and tall growing peas. These were grown from seeds that we saved from last year. Our YouTube friends Bill and Val<\/a> sent us some Kent Blue and Ne Plus Ultra peas a couple of years ago.<\/p>

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They also sent seeds from their Pongo French beans which we planted out earlier but to simplify things we also sowed more seeds so we could plant a few more Pongos just to harvest seeds for next year. I planted these in our second parsnip bed in a gap where the pre chitted seeds had failed to grow.<\/p>

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Our first sowing of peas have now produced plenty of pods so we should soon be gathering our first harvest.<\/p>

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Our first sowing of broad beans have also produced plenty of pods.\"\"<\/p>

As we like to harvest beans whilst they are quite small we have picked our first lot.<\/p>

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Harvests are generally on the increase so time needs to be set aside for picking, digging up, pulling, cutting and gathering.<\/p>

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19 June: Calabrese – Matsuri, Turnip – Sweetbell & Potato – Ulster Prince<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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23 June: Sweet peas, Strawberries & Gooseberries<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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24 June: Broad beans – de Monica, Cabbage – Greyhound, Courgettes – Defender, Turnip – Sweetbell, Strawberries & Gooseberries<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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25 June: Purple raspberries – Glencoe, Onions – Radar, Lettuce – Iceberg, Potatoes – Ulster Prince, Courgette – Defender, Strawberries, Gooseberries, Sweet Willians and sweet peas<\/figcaption><\/figure>

As well as planting and harvesting we weeded beds and strimmed the grass. The crops are growing much better after the rainfall but the grass and weeds have enjoyed the rain too.<\/p>

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One meal in which I used some of our homegrown vegetables was a vegetable pasta dish<\/a>. Into this went some of our onion, courgette, basil and from the freezer, leeks and peppers. I added some courgette and mushrooms to the recipe and didn’t blitz the sauce as we prefer for our veg not to be hidden.<\/p>

We managed to fit in our regular walks with Ruby. A local park has rows of lime trees bordering a pathway. These are now full of flower. Despite the flowers being, as is often the case with tree flowers, small and insignificant, they produce very strong perfume.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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On our visit to Temple Newsam we enjoyed seeing lots of ducklings.<\/p>

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At Nostell we were pleased to see that all six cygnets are still thriving.\"\"<\/p>

Hopefully, they are now big enough to avoid falling prey to the heron that is a frequent visitor to the lake.<\/p>

\"\" To finish we spotted two new wild flowers in the meadow – knapweed and yarrow. There were pink and white yarrow flowers which are the wild cousins of the achilleas that we grow in our gardens.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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That’s all for this week and as always stay safe and well until next time,<\/p>

Once again, I am linking to Dave’s Harvest Monday<\/a> on his Our Happy Acres blog.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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