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July Harvest – Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi and first tomatoes
Our vegetable harvests are weekly and our strawberries and blueberries are being picked daily. It’s Mid July and we are harvesting: Broccoli – Kabuki F1 The Broccoli has done really well since we have received lots of rain. It has been in a cage with environmesh netting since the end of May but only really…
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Early July Progress in the Vegetable Garden
July is the month for filling the gaps in your vegetable beds, waiting for harvests and buying seed for sowing July to August for Autumn and winter vegetables. This year we are having a mild summer in the UK, with periods of rain and very short periods of heat up to 30 degrees centigrade. We…
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June Vegetable Harvest – Lettuce, Peas, Radish and Baby Cucumbers.
It’s the third week in June, the UK has reached nearly 30 degrees centigrade for the first time this year and we are overrun with Lettuce. This year is a good year for Lettuce! Lettuce, lettuce and more lettuce We have 6 fully grown romaine lettuces plus some loose leaf lettuce and it’s lettuce for…
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Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June
This year has been a successful year for Green Lettuce and a poor year for red Lettuce as only one seed germinated. I sowed 3 types of lettuce this year, a romaine green lettuce, a red lettuce and a light green loose leaf lettuce – Black Seeded Simpson. This is the first time I’ve had…
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Musselburgh Leek Harvest in February
Back in August 2022, we planted our Leek plug plants out into our new raised beds. We have been harvesting the smaller leeks from December and then the ground was frozen so it has been difficult to harvest anything. It’s now February and I’m thinking ahead to Spring thinking we are going to need the…
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Happy New Year! Happy New Plot
Wishing you all a Happy New year and a happy new set of vegetables and harvests this year! Happy Birthday to my blog – Sow, Grow and Harvest it is two years old this month! I started writing about my adventures in growing vegetables two years ago (I don’t know where the time goes) as…
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And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest
If you are a regular to my blog, you may have read my Sweetcorn – Try, Try Again post. We didn’t have much success growing sweetcorn the last time we tried. This year, with the new vegetable garden we put in late in the year, we had no choice but to buy plug plants to…
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Red, Yellow, Orange and Green Tomatoes are here
The tomato plants were slow to get growing this year and never really reached a great height but finally the red tomatoes are here. We are growing a few different varieties this year but the Crimson Crush F1 which are blight resistant tomatoes have come through as a clear winner on the size of the…
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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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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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