18th August

Another week of hot, hot, hot weather, it has been an amazing summer.

The squash plants are ready much earlier than they have ever been, and we have around four per plant some five, so they are amazing this year.

We grew sweetcorn a lot of years ago nearly ten, I have a photo of Erin and Calum in them, and they were tiny.

That year it was a summer like this year, and we had a great harvest, but we then done them for a further two years and did not really get a crop.

And they take up a lot of room, so we never done them again.

If I had done them this year we would have had a great crop.

This week we had to take the fleece of off the winter crops we planted, they have shot on with the heat, then I went trough them with the brush weeder, this now just leaves us to get through them with the bed weeder, then we can put that away for year.

But that job will need to wait a week.

Up in the tunnels we had blocked three thousand spring cabbage, one thousand Romanesco Cauliflower, three thousand spinach, three thousand ruby chard and three thousand lettuce half red and half green, these have really shot on with the heat, and they can wait no longer to get planted.

These need planted as soon as possible, we will have them all in this week.

Up in the top part of the field the sunflowers are opening up, I took some to Edinburgh market to sell and they were gone in half an hr.

So, if anyone wants fresh sunflowers just phone up or email in an order and we will go and cut some.

I will be taking a lot to Glasgow farmers market this weekend.