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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’, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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