The weather has been largely wet for a few days with more heavy rain forecast. I thought it best to harvest the squash crop in one of the sunny spells rather than leaving them resting in wet mud; besides, most of the plants have gone over now so they weren't going to grow any bigger.
Last year I had the pictured plastic crate plus a sack just of butternut squash; this season my butternut hardly fill half the crate. As mentioned in my last post I think the cooler temperatures this Summer had a detrimental effect. Anyway, I've got some nice Winter squash so things aren't too bad. (Link to last year's squash harvest).
I cleared away the squash vines and started roughly turning over the ground. I'll pull out any weeds and will probably cover the area with black plastic over the Winter.
I had another look at my sweetcorn and I was pleasantly surprised. Last year was almost a write-off but this year I seem to have gotten some good results. Most of the plants have two good sized, well pollinated cobs on them. The recent winds have seen a few of them keel over now so I thought I'd pick a few that were lying on the ground.
Pictured are the first five I picked with the tassel end trimmed and the outer leaves removed. Overall, not a bad collection. Fingers crossed the rest of the sweetcorn harvest will be as good.
On a more sour note; my leeks have had an attack of leek moth. I've discovered a few larvae on the leaves and some damage at the centre of the leeks despite the covering of enviromesh. I'm hoping the damaged ones will recover but, even if they do, they never seem to get to the size of the unaffected ones. Oh, well, I'll keep an eye on them for the next few weeks.
That's it for now, see you next time.
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