Dear all

A surprisingly chilly start to the day but we were kept busy with digging up the salad potato crop - this year we planted 'Anya'-,  planting out the last of the winter brassicas - dwarf curly kale and nine star perennial -  netted against the pigeons of course, and the last of the leeks.

There is no room to sow the Pak Choi or the spring cabbages but next week the broad beans will be finished so that will release some space.

The onions have started to fall over so the remainder of the stalks were bent over as well and all laid out to allow the sun to ripen them.  The red onions have started going to seed so they were bent over too though a couple are going to be left to go to seed for the wonderful seed head.

The marrows are growing well and were put on boards to keep them clean..   The rabbits have been nibbling the fresh shoots of the parsley which hadn't been netted so we did the needful there as well.

Most of the time this week was spent in picking produce- the raspberries had their first picking over, the gooseberries their last, most of the redcurrants and blackcurrants were picked, another box of strawberries, dwarf French beans, broad beans, podded peas, mange tout and sugar snap peas, and  this year we have finally had a few cherries to pick.

Jobs for next week

Picking produce

Weeding and general tidying up for the Open Day on Sunday 8 August

Regards

Moira