Out in the field I am still amazed at our cucumber crop.

This was no trial, just a complete mistake, that no one is owning up to, me included.

All the squash plants and cucumber plants...

Last week I was saying we were having problems with cutting lettuce and oriental mix for our salad bags.

The heat wave that we have all been basking in and thoroughly enjoying over the last month...

 

Another week of roasting weather, the tunnels are hot.

The wee Fergie vintage 135 is not happy rotovating and only manages about half an hr and is heating up and asking for a break.

So,...

It was a hot week tunnel with temperatures hitting 49, it was toastie in them.

The tomato and cucumbers grew over a foot, and we had to go in twice during the week to get the side shoots off...

Again, this year we planted all our squash plants without using mulch film.

For years we have laid mulch before then planting the squash plants through it, it helps keep the weeds at bay and...

All the crops in the tunnels and the field are looking good, and harvesting is in full swing.

This season started around 3 weeks later than usual, just with the colder than usual May.

But...

This week was all about weeding, weeding and more weeding.

The leeks and onions are easy to get into with the weeding machines and the bed weeder, but the brassicas crops are a different matter.

The...

But the weather forecast was looking really bad to say the least, and was forecasted to last all week, so it was not looking promising. 

Finally I got the John deere rebuilt, but the delivery of the new water pump was delayed because of the bank holiday weekend, so it never arrived until Tuesday, much later than expected, so it was a...

 I had said last week that we would have a new van driver called Scott taking over Andrew’s deliveries, well he decided he did not want the job after being on the van for two weeks with Rab...