Whole plot seems to be growing over -- with recent rain and sun -- and couple of breaks away, the weeds seem to be taking hold and grassy paths growing rapdily.
Boys both short of money so got them down doing jobs. Cutting grass, weeding and back filling the newest box to the far right -- added a layer of green compost & grass, then a deep layer of straw menure mix and finally one of the skip bags of soil mix dug out from the box initially. Still not quite full and hopefully should settle as another skip bag, at least, to go.
Yellow courgette seems to be doing well and manage to pass on some off them to the neighbours.
Some of the white onions now starting to fade -- tops got blow over in storm -- and some have got the root mould which means they just pull out and possibly loose some of the out skin layers. Also keep finding more red onions which I planted in odd locations and they all need picking.
Sweetcorn looking good -- not super high but plenty of cobs forming.
Squashes very overgrown and green and leafy with plenty of fruit formed but not growing so large ...I think they'll depend on getting a mini heatwave to really take off.
Potatoes very sucessfull -- clearly they like the 2 year old compost mix in my boxes, so I think anual rotation for boxes filled with new compost should be:
- squashes
- potatoes
- garlic, onions, leeks
- carrots, beetroot
with cabbages and sweetcorn in there somewhere.
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