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has reached 7 pages I thought it might be time to start another thread.
It seems ages since my last update, it was in fact Aug 3rd, but in allotment terms almost a month is ages.
So what has been happening, well I am pleased to say I didn't feel anywhere as rough as I have in the past after my last treatment session. However my energy levels are low at present and once again I have not been up the plot as much in the last few weeks.
Got another session due on Thursday of this week, 6 hours on drips followed by 4 days of chemicals being pumped into me via a carry around bottle. Not looking forward to it.
Now for plot matters>
Tomatoes, much like many others it seems my toms have not been anywhere near as good as previous years. Quantity per plant down and ripening slow.
Did anybody else try Nimbus
the free sample packs that DT Brown were giving away with seed orders this year. I sowed the entire pack (Which understandably wasn't many seeds as it was just a free sample)Three germinated of which only ONE survived !! and has since produced a few piddly less than cherry size toms, very sweet though.
Peas Another crop which proved to be a relative failure this year. We grew a number of varieties and all failed to grow to their usual height, pea pods were stunted and despite being planted at different times all ended up with fungal growth on the leaves and pods.
Beans Again like many others earlier in the season we had trouble getting beans to propagate. The intention was to grow one 'A frame' row of 26 plants but none were coming up so sowed some more, again they didn't come up so we sowed some more of a different variety.
You can now guess what happened
All of a sudden beans started shooting, we had beans, beans, and more beans. However the first batch got wind burn when eventually planted out on the plot so I thought it likely they wouldn't recover. They did and we ended up with 2 'A Frame' lots of St George runners each containing 26 plants plus 1 'A frame' row of 26 Emergo runners.
In last four weeks we have picked 50lb of St George, and Emergo are just starting to yield.
Picture of the beans that had been wind burnt when younger
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And a recent picking of 14lb 8ozs of beans from them
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Inspecting Peas before disposal
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Potatoes Lady Christl and Winston both lived up to our previous experiences, both have once again been versatile in their usage and have held good taste whichever way cooked.
Not sure how one mistake came about but I had logged and planted Vales Emerald as a main crop. Harvest was disappointing both in size and volume.
I am keeping a close eye on our late main crop 'Sarpo Mira' which is allegedly blight resistant and has always proved to be so in the past, this year there appears to be signs.
