Well, it has been a while since I last posted. It has been a lot of hard work getting our plot back to how it was before our holiday, but we managed it. It is all under control again.
The soil is very dry and dusty as we have not had any rain for the past 2 months. The BBC weather girl has said that Bedfordshire has been the dryest county in the South East. We need rain and I am now going to start thinking about doing a native rain dance . . .
We came back from a recent trip to New York and I decided to go to harvest all our Sweetcorn as we did not have time to do anything with it before we went due to birthday and anniversary celebrations. When I got there, the sweetcorn had been trashed (see picture). Some other plot holders had the same problem and there seems to be 2 schools of thought either it was Muntjac Deer or it was Badgers. The soil is so dry that there were not any footprints for me to distinguish which was the culprit.
I have planted some Autumn King carrots which appear to be doing well, thanks to our water butts (which are now empty). I am hoping to have some of these for dinner on Christmas Day. I have been told that they can stay in the ground all winter so I wont have to pick them all at once. Had I known that before, I would have sown more! Never mind, there is always next year.
We are picking Chard as we have so much of it and I am going to try to freeze some to see how it copes. There is so much up there and I know it will get knocked out with the frosts, which makes me think it will not freeze, but I will give it a go.
I have been doing a study on the names of persistent weeds that we get on our plot, but that information will be for another post, possibly in the winter when there is nothing to write about.
We ended up with enough spuds for just one meal from our experiment with Tyres, so the moral is that you only need them to be 2 tyres high as any higher means they die. Next year we will grow 3 piles of 2 and see if that fares any better. That will please our miserable plot neighbours no end!
Well, I had better go and get on. Thanks for looking.
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