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Mange tout, french beans, lettuce & blackberry harvest
August is prime harvest time. The salad crops like lettuce and spinach need to be picked regularly otherwise with the rising heat, they will normally bolt and start flowering. Some of my lettuce has already started doing this. I’ll pick the decent leaves and get rid of the rest of the plant into the compost…
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Update – Keep Out Cabbage White Butterflies of my Brussels sprouts cage
In May of this year I wrote my original post in this trial, if you haven’t read it, see here: The Keep Out Cabbage White Butterfly Cage Trial. I’m now writing the update in August for this trial and it’s been an interesting few months. The cabbage white butterflies have been active in the garden…
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Update 1 – Keep Out Cabbage White Butterflies of my Brussels sprouts cage
In May of this year I wrote my original post in this trial, if you haven’t read it, see here: The Keep Out Cabbage White Butterfly Cage Trial. I’m now writing the update in August for this trial and it’s been an interesting few months. The cabbage white butterflies have been active in the garden…
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Flowers in the Vegetable Garden attract wildlife
I keep saying I’m not very good at growing flowers, vegetables and now fruit seems to be my thing. However in the vegetables garden this summer, there seems to be flowers everywhere. Marigolds These orange and red coloured flowers have been a hit with hoverflies, resting places for honey bees and bumble bees and other…
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Blue, Black, Rasp and StrawBerries Harvest
The new fruit plants – 2 blueberries bushes, 1 blackberry bush, 5 summer fruiting raspberry canes and 2nd strawberry plants have all performed extremely well this year with regular harvests from Early July (we are in the UK). If anyone is thinking of getting some berry bushes or fruit canes, do it, you won’t regret…
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August in the Vegetable Garden
It’s mid August, I haven’t planted any vegetables since the Sweetcorn in July. In the Summer months, I like to sit back and enjoy the garden, enjoy the harvests and enjoy watching the plants and wildlife flourish. All the hard work, sowing seeds and caring for plants in Spring has paid off as the vegetable…
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Update – The Marigolds Ring of Steel around the Tomatoes
The Marigolds Ring of Steel (here’s my original post) has been very successful at keeping away greenfly and blackfly from the tomatoes this year. I was getting so much greenfly on my lettuce in the other raised bed, I even moved two of the marigolds (I was careful not to break the ring of steel)…
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Beautiful Mange Tout Purple Flowers
I absolutely love this variety of Mange Tout – carouby de maussane and it’s all down to the two tone purple colour of the flowers. They are simply beautiful.
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July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.
The vegetable garden is in full bloom and everything is going well. Due to all the rain we have been having, there has been no need to put the watering system or use the water from the waterbutts, luckily it has all fallen from the sky so far. Here’s a picture of the vegetable garden…
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Colourful Salad Bowl Harvest
The salad, herbs and roots bed is starting to bloom in shades of dark red, lime green, mid green and a mixture of both and it looks even better on your plate at dinner time or in a sandwich for work. I love this shade of dark red lettuce with its frilly leaves that forms…
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