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tosca
Sun Jun 21, 2015 3:27 am
Being in a different country where things grow quicker I don't really count, but if anyone is interested we have to try to get things in early as I have learned that because of the hot weather and pests successional sowing doesn't work. We can try to get more peas and potatoes, even cucumber in at the end of summer as long as the temperatures are bearable.
Finished already are peas, broad beans, strawberries, blackcurrants, goosegogs. Up and plaited are garlic. The overwintered onions went to seed so the little I could salvage have gone into chutney. Spinach and salad is finished by may, it's too hot to grow it here and it bolts. Our last frost was in April and we don't grow anything under cover.
So what we are harvesting now...cucumber, courgettes. green peppers, tomatoes, carrots, beets, Tuscan kale, green sprouting summer broccoli, red onions, French and runner beans, potatoes, raspberries, rhubarb and chard. The ducks and chooks are already fed up of cucumber and courgettes.
Lots of jam and chutney already made, and cucumber pickle, starting on bottling today.
Blimmin hard work this grow your own lark. But loving it.