Cabbage and Celeriac

 Tundra cabbage and Asterix celeriac

 Toms at the far end are just about finished but winter crops are coming into their own.

Lettuce - Marvel Of Four Seasons, Perpetual Spinach, Rocket and Land Cress

Last of this years toms

 Mountain Magic tomatoes are looking tired but still hanging in there. Frosts are forecast for the next couple of nights so these will be harvested today.

 

Late Season Fennel

 Sown Aug 31st into modules

Garlic Planted

 100 self saved cloves (only the fattest cloves are used for planting) - set out in position, just waiting to be dropped into dibbered holes.

Speckled Bush Cricket

One of the UK's flightless crickets, photographed on the shed

Katrin Carrots And Root Fly

For the last three years we've grown Katrin and Nantes carrots. Interestingly Katrin have been consistently less susceptible to carrot root fly - these haven't been covered during any stage of growth. Nantes in the next row (not pictured) were affected.

 Lettuce Lolla Rossa and Radicchio Palla Rossa. Both need to be out soon as this bed's earmarked for garlic.

Sparrowhawk and Blackbird

 This isn't a staged photo - the hawk was wedged so tight it couldn't move. Both birds were successfully rescued and released.

 Three lovely Burpless cukes

 

Helichrysum

and a productive PT

Lotty Lunch

 

Wildlife pond repair

 Presumably it was after frogs but a fox tore holes in the pond liner.  A repair didn't fix the leak so it's been replaced by a bath (plug hole etc. sealed first) and the old liner re-fitted to hide the pale  colour.

Today's Harvest

 

Polytunnel frog

 

 Some of this years Golden Bear

 Tortoiseshell on lavender

Garlic Drying

Top shelf is our own self-saved (originally from supermarket bulbs), now 5th generation. 

Onions

 Maincrop Golden Bear

Spring onions White Lisbon

Peas Out - Kale In

 Quick turn round

The final picking of this years peas

Kale plants are a bit small but putting them out saved potting them on

Assorted Harvests

 June 19th

June 21st

June 22nd

Controlling white rot

White rot fungus spores (sclerotia) are triggered into action by the presence of allicin. In theory spreading garlic powder gets the fungus growing but not finding a suitable host it dies before setting more spores.

Last year 25% of our bulbs were affected, this year 7%

Done, ready for an interim crop before planting up the same beds with onions and garlic again in autumn.

Canterbury Bells

 

Peas, garlic and winter onions

 

50 Autumn Champion autumn planted onions.