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Anyone tanked a cellar? Wondering whether it’s something to take on solo or if it would be better to get someone in

That would be amazing if you don’t mind! Will most likely get the train to Faversham I reckon, do a loop and then camp at the Brother weekend.
I’ll be on a grav bike with 2.1’s on. I plan to be panniered up though, don’t know if that will make a difference for the woodland sections!

Plans may change if the weather does though!

Off to the Brother big one in a couple of weeks and thinking of tagging on a few days extra riding. @youramericanlover your route looks good - did you ever test ride it? Gonna start thinking about camping spots.

Spinach likes cooler weather.
Try growing chard or spinach beet in the warmer months

Lovely those. Are they under fleece?

@rhb has got it!
Take out any branches that are damaged first.
Then any that are crossing over each other.
Then have a good look round the tree and try and create some air flow in the middle. Make sure your clippers are clean and clean them again between trees.

I agree ☝️

You could stick some chard in and overwinter. Same with Kale. Spring cabbage can be sown now. I’ve just stuck a load of rocket and more lettuce in and some Pak Choi.

Yeah that would work for sure.
Nice to have a melon!

Also if you’ve got first earlies I’d chuck them in instead. 10-12 weeks till harvest for these so more likely to get a crop before the ground gets super wet and rots them.

You can plant potatoes in August. Main crop take about 20 weeks to harvest so they could be susceptible to frost and also on the other end of the weather scale blight. Growing them in a greenhouse in a big pot is usually how people get Christmas spuds.

Depends when you sowed them :) Pull one and see

Interestingly mine are similar this year. I’ve grown some new varieties this year so was putting it down to that.
They can actually do this when they don’t get enough light but that can’t be the case this year!!

I’ve grown ratte in the ground before. No major slug issues with them but pretty small yields (which is why they’re spenny in Waitrose :)
Moved to Pink Firs as I’ve found they crop better for me

Can you shade cloth the tunnel? The building site green netting is good if there’s any lying around

Sounds good! Could also still sow Pak Choi and other greens like mustard etc.
Rainbow chard?
Could start some overwintering kales as well still.

I would quite like that job 😂

Don’t do it! First job of market garden bed prep is to de-stick and stone and they are fastidious about it.

Jeez. This is crazy! I find it so weird that people want a plot but not the work. That is the hobby - the gardening? Non?

I would agree unfortunately. Cut those tops off, burn them and hope it hasn’t spread?

I dropped some into pots on Thursday last week and they were up 2 inches above the soil last night. Everything will come on quick this week!

Nice. Smaller than I was thinking for next year but might go with that as it would be good to use less compost

What size pots have you used for these?

Sun 2nd - 70.1kg
Sat 8th - 68.9kg

• 1.2kg loss -
  
  

Pretty happy with that given that I’ve barely moved. Hopefully work some exercise in next week and see what that does.
I feel like I’m starting to get used to being hungry for meals and being able to ignore that feeling for a bit.