The Frantic Gardeners’ Blog

we got back a week ago having been away for 3 weeks visiting relatives and seeing my cousin get married as well as visiting the rockies. Before we left I did a pretty good weed of the veg beds, put a straw mulch around the corn and squashes and topped up around the beans and potatoes and hoped for the best. My DH also bodged up the auto waterer for the greenhouse, but so late we didn’t have much of a chance to assess how much it was delivering.

whilst we were away we had some friends and some family come every couple of days for the rabbits and troubleshoot the veg, and they were told to pick whateve they wanted that was ready - it was mostly courgettes, salads and tomatoes.

when we returned, we came back to a complete jungle! harvesting the desperate things about to go over gave us several kg of different french beans, courgettes and escaped-to-become-marrows, potatoes, aubergines, several different brocolli, romanescu and caulifower, chard and tomatoes. it was a real glut.

we still haven’t managed to weed more than a small bit, as loads of nettles, so can’t rope in kids to help .

since then, continued to harvest chard and beans in great quantities, and courgettes [a base for many meals!] carrots both orange and purple, lots of rainbow chard, potatoes and tomatoes and salad leaves and a few aubergines.

i can see the squashes and sweetcorn are also doing well. there are a few more brassicas to harvest and the garlic. the broad beans are done. in the greenhouse the peppers are starting to go red, and there are loads of them.

i can see tho that melons and watermelons are not so successful.