Last week I was talking about all the Cabbage, Romanesco, Ruby chard, Spinach and lettuce needing planted.

 

Well yes, we did get them all planted, but I forgot to take...

 

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,...

Before we can put the bed weeder away for the year, we still have one job to do.

We still need to get the fleece of off the over winter crops and go through them with the weeding machines, and...

Last week I was away with Erin finishing of the west highland way.

I will come back to that story after a wee bit of news from the farm.

The jobs I left were just harvesting and bed weeding...

 Last week we got the over winter Cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli planted.

Twenty thousand plants in total, and a wee batch of three thousand five hundred kohl rabi.

The...

Last week’s weather was wet and warm, great for the plants in the field, but not so good for getting the over winter plants planted.

But we managed to catch a couple of weather windows...

This week has been a week of weeding in the tunnels and out in the field.

But we did have a bit of a breakdown with the brush weeder.

We always go in front of the weeders on the bed weeding...

This week we rotovated tunnel five and got it ready for re planting.

On Tuesday morning we planted the tunnel with two and a half thousand green lettuce and two and half thousand red lettuces.

This week we took the fleece of off the squash plants; they are looking good but very weedy.

Usually, we plant them through biodegradable mulch film, which helps keep the weed down.

But...

We had another good week of nice dry warm weather.

This helped us get all the brassicas weeded.

The brassica’s plants are big, so they are not that hard to weed, and I have been...