OwnGrown

Not much to say over the past couple of weeks due to incessant rain and now a partly flooded vegetable garden which isn’t doing anything any good. Temperatures have also been a little low so everything has almost ground to a halt - many plants looking very sick and turning yellow showing how much they hate constant saturation. Sowing seeds is also impossible - they would probably float away and, if not, fail because they are saturated! Hopefully, within a few days we should see some produce if it warms up a little.

These are a real nuisance this year and causing a lot of damage. I have tried different ways to control them over the years but slug pellets seem to be the only effective way. Some makes of these are hopeless and the slugs seem to thrive on them but the Bio product does a good job.

Started lifting the earlier maturing garlic. Ideally these should be left to dry outside but it is too damp at the moment and almost no sun so they will be hung up indoors. These early maturing ones will not last in store as long as later ones but should be fine hanging up for a few months. The largest ones will be kept for planting in October - see earlier entries.

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We are still six to eight weeks away from using the onions. The red onions, Hyred, are in the foreground and the Hercules onions (the majority) behind them.

Almost ready for use. Here we have the smallish Little Gem on the left, Webbs Wonderful and Marvel of 4 Seasons with the deep red outer leaves. The smaller plants are little more than seedlings and will be ready when this first lot are finished.