We've had some lovely weather over the past fortnight with very little rain. The Winter squashes are doing well in the dry heat, better than last year as the Summer of 2015 was relatively cool. I've got a decent pumpkin for Halloween, a fair number of Butternuts and Crown Prince plus some nice sized Turks Turban which appear to be bigger than last season. (Pic - Turks Turban Winter squash).
(Pic- three silver skinned Crown Prince enjoying the hot sunshine).
The courgette Summer squash meanwhile have gone a bit silly. I knew I was asking for trouble when I put in five plants when three are usually ample. There have just been too many courgettes to eat and I ended up not picking them and before I knew it I had lovely marrows - oops! (Pic - yellow Atena and green Defender courgettes which have turned into monsters).
Last week I took the nets off the leeks and was appalled at the amount of weeds choking the crop. While enviromesh does a good job of protecting the plants it does obscure problems too. Anyway, the leeks were cleared of weeds and I noticed that one are two have a yellow tinge. This could be because they have been shaded by the high weeds or are lacking a bit of nutrition; the weeds are gone and I'll give them a dressing of Growmore to give them a boost.
Two days a go the Sturon onions were taken up as they had rapidly 'gone over' in the past week or so. The forecast has promised three days of hot weather so I'll leave them outside to dry a little in the sunshine then will store them in the shed for a month or two until the green leaves wither. I usually clean them up a little then place them in a large net sack and bring them indoors before the frosts.
The last of the Rocket early potatoes have also been taken up now; they are a large size at this point and are filling a bucket in the shed. The ground they occupied has been weeded and dug over. This area suffers from seeding by a near-by sycamore in the early Autumn so I'll be covering the bed before the end of the Summer.
That's it for now. Catch you next time.
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