It’s the height of summer, really, so we should be very busy harvesting, planting and watering!
Top tasks include
– Harvesting French Beans and runners, courgettes, carrots, beetroot, onions, shallots, new potatoes and summer salads.
- Pick cherries, strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries and blueberries.
- Sow the last of your beetroot, fennel, French beans and peas for this year.
- Plant out cabbages, cauliflowers sprouts, broccoli and kale for the autumn and winter.
- Water as often as you can to prevent plants from bolting.
- Feed tomatoes regularly and pinch out side shoots.
- Thin out apples and pears if it looks like you’re going to have a bumper crop.
- Thanks to all who helped at the last working party and a date for your diary is 27th July for the next working party.
- 21st September is our Harvest Festival event with a working party on 7th and or 14th September to be decided nearer the time.
- Please let us know if you hope to come to the AGM next Wednesday, 7.30pm in the Rose Room, I hope to see you there.
- Lucinda