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Week 29 – 27.10.07 – Winter Warmers

Posted on 27. Oct, 2007 by Tracey.

Today I will mostly be wrapping up my veggy plot and potato tubs in horticultural fleece. With the windy weather this was not the most easiest of jobs. Once I finally got the fleece down over the plot and pegged it down with large rocks, I realised I would need a way of removing it [...]

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Week 27 Beanpole mountain becomes beanpole heap

Posted on 14. Oct, 2007 by Tracey.

Sunday 14th October 2007
Today I was mostly cutting down my runner bean mountain.
It has come to the end of the runner bean producing cycle. The beans left on the plant are stunted, yellow and are showing no signs of fattening up anytime soon so this has forced me into cutting down the structure to [...]

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Holey Cabbage

Posted on 07. Oct, 2007 by Tracey.

This week I have mostly been squishing green caterpillars and whitefly from my cabbage leaves.
I have to say it isn’t a pleasant or enjoyable job, but if I want winter cabbage leaves I have to do it before the pests obliterate all of my seedlings.
Tiny Green Caterpillars
I have a holey cabbage problem in plot [...]

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Week 25 29.09.07 Veggy Plot Report

Posted on 29. Sep, 2007 by Tracey.

This week I will mostly be harvesting my magic runner bean seeds, I’m hoping they are going to work their magic and produce a wonderful beanstalk like they did this year! Pictured are varieties Red Rum and White Lady seeds.
I left some runner beans on the plant for weeks (longer than usual) so the beans [...]

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Week 24 23.09.07 Hurray! My Peppers are turning red!

Posted on 23. Sep, 2007 by Tracey.

After nearly six months (sowed them on 31.03.07) my sweet baby peppers are finally turning red and I’m glad as I was thinking I might have some faulty ones!
Growing peppers certainly shows that perseverance prevails as at one point the plants leaves were yellowing so I added some fresh compost to the top of [...]

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Week 23 16.09.07 Plot Report

Posted on 18. Sep, 2007 by Tracey.

This week I will mostly be harvesting yet more runner beans! and plenty of tomato’s.
My tomato plants despite looking very disheveled because I have occasionally forgotten to water them are still producing a harvest of red and yellow fruit.
My Maris Peer xmas potatoes have loved the recent warm weather and have shot up above the [...]

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Cat on Veggy Plot

Posted on 09. Sep, 2007 by Tracey.

I couldn’t resist but to post this picture of one of my cats who we’ve had for 5 months now adopted from a rescue centre. This is the first time he has decided to lay in my vegetable plots but he certainly made himself very comfortable on my mini leeks, I’m sure they will bounce [...]

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Week 21 Growth Report

Posted on 02. Sep, 2007 by Tracey.

Week 21 02.09.07 – This week I will mostly be growing….

Sweet Baby Peppers Sown 31.03.07 have been very slow growing this year but as you can see from the photo growth is finally speeding up.
Mini Leeks (8 weeks growth),

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Week 20 Vegetable Garden Maintenance

Posted on 26. Aug, 2007 by Tracey.

There comes a time in every vegetable gardens life where it needs a new look for the autumn months. This weekend was maintenance weekend, where out with the old and no longer needed and in with the newly sown seeds.
So I had to be brutal and out went my Chard Bright Lights and Perpetual Spinach [...]

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Week 17 Harvest & Growth Report 05.08.07

Posted on 05. Aug, 2007 by Tracey.

This week I will mostly be harvesting:-

Runner Beans (Red Rum and White Lady),
Carrots (James Scarlet Intermediate),
Silverskin Spring Onions and Red Blood Holland spring onions
Cabbage (Greyhound and Frostie),
Leaf Beat – Perpetual Spinach,
Dwarf French Beans (Ferrari),
Tornado F1 Tomatos.

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