I asked last month where is the rain, well at last it has arrived we have been 60 plus days without any recordable rain and things were getting desperate. Sally has spent most of her time trying to keep the crops alive with constantly moving the irrigation from crop to crop but nothing is the same as a decent rain, the crops already look happier. The next thing is all the weeds will start growing and all the time will be spent weeding but that is just how it goes. Despite the fact we have had all this dry weather we are harvesting plenty of our own grown salad, vegetables and flowers on a daily basis.
In the glasshouse Toni has still got vegetable plants, currently she has got lettuce, leeks, cauliflower, cabbage and sprouting broccoli ready to plant now. The autumn bedding pansies, primroses and polyanthus have all been ordered along with the spring flowering bulbs and should be available from early to mid September.
In the farm shop we have got our own grown produce along with local potatoes, strawberries and raspberries, it wont be long before we see the first English apples, Discovery usually start early to mid August.
We are currently harvesting
6 varieties of Lettuce
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Chard
Calabrese
Calabrese shoots
Marrows
Courgettes
Runner beans
Dwarf beans
Peas
Beetroot
Parsley
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Spring onions
Cut Flowers
So with all our own grown freshly harvested produce why not pop along and see us?
