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A very late harvest

February 25, 2008

Last carrot harvestWe’re rapidly moving into spring. The trees are starting to bud, and there is blossom in the nature reserve next to the house. So this weekend we pulled on our boots and headed out to the plot to bring in the last of the carrots and sprouts, turn out another bag of potatoes and assess the cabbages and leeks.

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Last of the beetroot, end of the squash

November 22, 2007

This weekend, in between accepting deliveries of slabs in preparation for the shed’s Friday erection (it’s currently stacked up on the patio as a series of panels) we gave the plot a good clear out.
We took out the dwarf French beans, which had come to nothing, the pepper trees that had succumbed to the frost, [...]

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Summer summary

October 24, 2007

An plot inspection on Saturday afternoon proved what we thought: summer really is over.
So, we set about cutting down the tomato vines and digging up some more of the carrots to see whether they’d all been affected by the black veins we’d seen in the last batch. The answer, so far, is ‘don’t know’, as [...]

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A stunted harvest

October 19, 2007

The nights have really drawn in now, and it’s difficult to find time, during the week, to devote to the plot. You can’t very well go rooting up carrots or pruning back the rambling brambles in the dark, and as a result it’s starting to get a little battered.
Two of the sprout plants are now [...]

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Carrotastrophe

October 7, 2007

Mouldy carrot
Something is up with the carrots. We pulled some to eat tonight, and when we peeled them they had black patches beneath the skin, almost like something had been in there eating them.
I don’t know whether it’s the whole run of just the ones we pulled today, but I suspect this is an attack [...]

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