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1 Dec 2009

 

Well, it looks like I'm managing a six-monthly update, rather than the regular ones I was planning on. Time just flies by, and the seasons change.

This year has been such a relief after the previous two. While it's not been perfect, we did get enough rain and sun at roughly the right times for us to achive some decent yields, especially our potatoes, and the mild autumn and early winter has meant that we've managed to harvest calabrese and decent cauliflowers right up until last week. This weeks frosts are likely to finally kill off the calabrese, although if it's not as severe as predicted we have a very late planted batch which are just about ready for harvest.

This Christmas falls on a Friday, so there will be no market on the 26th, but we will be holding a market on Wednesday the 23rd at the regular time so that we can supply freshly harvested produce just prior to Christmas day.
The next market will then be on Saturday January 2nd 2010.

Here are a selection of photos taken earlier this year, to remind ourselves quite how nice August and September were.

Potatoes growing well in August
Just planted Red Russian Kale
Tomatoes in July just ripening.
Calabrese, Red, White and Savoy cabbages.
Onions, lifted with our potato harvester and left to dry on the surface.
Leeks in the foreground, with parsnips to the left. These are now being harvested
Sweetcorn, after two awful years we got a reasonable harvest.
I'd forgotten what a lovely summer we actually had this year...
Tomatoes in production.
Later plantings of Calabrese/
Sprouts in September growing well
Decent crop of Cauliflowers in late September.
 
Uchiki Kuri squash ripening