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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The courgettes and sweetcorn have been enjoying the end of July heat-wave</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another month to fill out and these cobs will be ready to harvest, come on sun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But only a few days for this courgette to be ready!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good to see some weed free crops at last, (although I don't get to see my husband and weed-free crops, it's one or the other!)<br />
the wet spring/summer has meant lots of weeding this year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And rainbow chard looking lovely too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like a lovely patch of wild flowers full of bees and other wildlife,<br />
but it's actually 2 beds of carrots that didn't get weeded (can't win them all)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brassicas in 'Prescott' field<br />
(these fields used to be part of Wye College farm, and 3 of the fields are named after former principals,<br />
as well as John, there's also 'Holmes' and 'Lucas')<br />
These plants survived the wireworm, sadly many of the squash plants didn't.</td></tr>
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<strong>We’ve had some promising
glimpses of Summer during June,</strong> but not as many as we would like! The
onions and garlic have grown very well this season, the second early potatoes
were a bit slow but ready to harvest now and all our leafy greens are available
again now (chards, spinach and kales).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The courgette and sweetcorn plants are looking good and have enjoyed this
last week of warmth and we finally started planting our squash plants last week,
once we got a few consecutive dry days and most of them are in the ground now
hoping for a sunny summer, (aren’t we all!).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potatoes in flower, the real thing is beautiful, not done justice by my photography!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down over Wye, our early transplanted leeks growing in very chalky soils, <br />
a lot less weeds here than in many of our crops this year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onions that have been weeded lots!!<br />
Al least some of the weeds are pretty.</td></tr>
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<strong>Weeds, weeds,
weeds</strong> - We’ve been thinking back to last year’s exceptionally dry/hot
spring and remembering how little hand weeding we had to do - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reverse that this year, Martin does the bulk
of the weeding himself using a tractor mounted steerage hoe, finger-weeder, and
ridger as well as some pre-emergence and inter-row flame weeding. But any weeds
that escape all that have to be hoed or hand-pulled, and there have been a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lot </i>of them this season. You get to know
your weeds when you’re on your hands and knees in a bed of carrot or spinach,
and categorise them as you go along, there’s the ‘good’ weeds such as
fat-hen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(pulls out easily, as long as it
doesn’t get too big), fumitory (looks pretty), red dead-nettle (the bees love
it) and then there are the ’nasties’ – nettles and thistles, for obvious
reasons. There’s no going out in the fields in shorts and sandals on an organic
farm!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462010856039848114.post-66457776356629563042012-06-25T12:28:00.000-07:002012-06-25T12:28:53.311-07:00Wye Brownies grow and pack their own salad bagsAs part of the 2nd Wye Food Festival the Wye Brownies grew their own lettuce in unusual containers, such as an old welly boot and a bird house. Then, they had a salad sandwich tasting and salad bag making session.<br />
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The girls got to taste red cos lettuce, crisp
salanova lettuce, green oakleaf lettuce and oriental
salad leaves, rocket, mizuna and green wave mustard.
As you may know 'green wave mustard' leaf is a
fiery one and a few of the girls needed a glass of
water after trying that one!<br />
The brownies also all made their own mixed leaf salad
bags after a quick demonstration from Sarah Mackey,
aiming to make their handful of leaves look like a
bunch of flowers, and whilst all of this was going on
some of the girls were taking photos for the food festival photography competition.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462010856039848114.post-17102030835711334262012-05-30T00:03:00.001-07:002012-05-30T00:04:28.032-07:00Hungry No More - May 2012It's the end of May, and we're getting towards the end of the 'Hungry Gap'.<br />
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Spring onions, spring garlic, annual spinach, new season's salad leaves and lettuces are all ready now, new potatoes this week, new season's chard and kales and spring cabbage won't be long......<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">spring onions in the field</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">new season's annual spinach looking pretty amongst the red dead nettle <br />
(the annual nettles are not so pretty though when we're harvesting the spinach!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">new season's rainbow chard, nearly ready for harvesting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">red lettuce in a polytunnel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a few early carrots in a polytunnel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and an outdoor sowing of carrots (our main weeding project at the moment)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">beds of runner and french beans inside the walled garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">newly planted rows of courgettes and sweetcorn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">trays of leeks and brassicas hardening off before planting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">looking down at our rows of main-crop potatoes<br />
(shame I didn't get my camera out fast enough to photo the hare that was running down between the ridges)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462010856039848114.post-49470795608711922272012-05-17T11:38:00.000-07:002012-05-17T11:39:30.688-07:00Green Garlic<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A.K.A spring garlic or wet garlic, the young green garlic looks like a small leek in disguise, <br />
eat it all, as you would a spring onion.<br />
The taste is milder than dry garlic, and it sweetens as it cooks, delicious!</td></tr>
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As the season progresses, the bottom 'bulbs' out to give a more recognisable shape.<br />
Even at this stage, you can eat it all, as the cloves have only just began to seperate.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of our garlic back in February.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And more, taken in May last year</td></tr>
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This year, we have an official drought, and we're struggling with the amount of rain we've had through April and so far in May. The drought is a long term problem though, affecting all of us, with resorvoir levels in the South East below average and groundwater sources at moderate or severely low levels.<br />
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Hopefully, the very wet conditions prove to be a short term problem for us growers, we are forecast 3 consecutive (mostly) dry days from tomorrow at least! <br />
After getting ahead on our planting when we had a couple of dry and sunny weeks at the end of March, we are behind now, we have lots of transplants ready to go out in the field, its almost impossile to do any weed control, and the slug and snail populations are getting fat on carrot seedlings! <br />
Bring on the sun.<br />
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And whilst I'm on the subject of water, we now have a 'treebog' compost loo at Ripple Farm, no water needed to flush (and no emptying needed, the willows planted round the site feed on the 'compost').<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462010856039848114.post-59011554838279889742012-04-17T14:43:00.019-07:002012-04-18T13:22:31.354-07:00April on Ripple Farm (part 2)Part 2 of whats happening at Ripple in April.......<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early spuds grown under perforated plastic to bring the harvest forward (is it better environmentally to grow a small amount this way or import them from Egypt for a week or two (or keep eating wrinkly old ones a bit longer))?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And looking through the hedge at ridges of our main crop potatoes in Olantigh Field,<br />
our chalky soil is almost white here as it rises up towards the downs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring onions off to a good start</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rows of mini craters where there should be rows of broad beans, wireworm (the larvae of click beetle) are attacking <br />
from underneath, and rooks are pulling up the small plants to eat the wireworm!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So we're sowing broad beans in seed trays to transplant, we wil not be beaten!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I spent a peaceful Saturday afternoon planting strawberry plants in the shelter of the walled garden, we grow them through these 'mypex' sheets to help with weed control, as the plants will be in the ground for a few years. It also to help conserve the moisture in the soil and keeps the berries cleaner than if they were grown in bare earth.<br />
In the gender specific world of plant breeding, the varieties I planted are 'Alice', 'Christine', 'Florence' and 'Honeyeye'<br />
Compare those to a few brassica varieties - 'Samson', 'Ironman' , 'Supervoy and 'Duncan' !!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We'd love to have patchwork fields of many colours (and sometimes we do) but here we have patchworks of crop covers to protect our new plantings, as there are plenty of pests out there ready to take more than their fair share of our crops.<br />
There are some baby kale plants under there, but there will be a gap in availability before these are ready to harvest<br />
(we're coming up to the 'Hungry Gap' time of year for UK vegetable growers)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It doesn't look much yet, but here's one of our 'bee food' phacelia strips, which has self seeded<br />
and will soon be in flower again.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And finally, one of the damson trees in our hedges in flower.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red curly kale growing skywards (and dancing, or just a windy day)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Green-in-snow' mustard leaf, going to seed but we already have<br />
new sowings of salad leaves ready to harvest from a polytunnel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salad rocket in flower (the flowers are very tasty in a salad)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The over-wintered spinach and chard will go to seed soon too but we have<br />
some time to harvest the new spring regrowth first<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Season's Pak Choi ready to harvest.<br />
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(I'm having a few problems uploading photos to this post, so part 2 of April goings on to follow soon!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claytonia salad leaves growing in a polytunnel. Claytonia is the cultivated variety of the wild plant<br />
'Spring Beauty' and adds some balance to our spicy winter salad bags.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn sown garlic, growing inside our rented Victorian walled garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Olantigh' Field, late sown leeks to the left, some of this year's veg ground to the right and the North Downs Way' <br />
public footpath going across the field.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and Olantigh Field again, looking down towards Wye.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newly ploughed ground outside the walled garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orchard Field, rows of kales to the right, and more of this year's veg ground to the left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Polytunnel cultivated, ready for sowings of early salad greens and spinach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First batch of seed potatoes, some of which were sown today, March 27.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rinbow chard seedlings, showing their beauty already.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">curly kale just showing above the snow...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and red russian kale....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">there's some purple sprouting broccoli there somewhere....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeriac, most is covered by straw for frost protection.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beetroot, again, most of the crop is snug under a layer of straw</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carrots under fleece, with more under straw.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here's the beetroot under straw.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not much to see, but there are some parsnips in these beds, we have to search for them, not our best crop this year, as many didn't germinate in the hot, dry spring</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spinach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Chard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow Chard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swede</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Purple Sprouting Broccoli</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Curly Kale</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cavelo Nero (Black Kale)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Curly Kale</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tha mainstay of our winter salad bags - 'green-in-snow' mustard leaf</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rocket, going to seed now, but the flowering shoots are great in salads.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet Red Russian Kale, the smaller leaves are harvested for salad,<br />
and the larger ones for stir fry bags and mixed kale bags</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet Hungry Gap Kale, again the smaller leaves are great in salads (similar taste to pak-choi) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A glasshouse full of Claytonia, the cultivated form of the wild plant 'Spring Beauty'. Also known as 'Miners Lettuce, <span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">getting its name due to its use as a fresh salad green by miners in the 1849 Gold Rush in California</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Mustard leaves, growing in a glasshouse.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the more tender winter salad leaves, Mizuna. This crop has already been cut once, and if the mild weather continues we will get another cut from it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the crops harvested in the Autumn and now in store include potatoes (under the covers),<br />
as well as onions and squash.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over-wintered garlic, something to look forward to in the Spring (we do still have some stored, dried garlic too).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a late crop of leeks ( we do also have some larger ones we are harvesting at the momet)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Crown Prince' squash, cut and windrowed, ready to pick up.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>We've harvested all our pumpkins and squash now, not such a big job this year as we lost a lot of plants after transplanting, in the cool June weather. But the amazingly sunny September and October ripened those that survived.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Hokkaido', probably the tastiest squash we grow, but doesn't store long, so taste it while you can.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pumpkins in the field, cut and ready to pick up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crown Prince, a very tasty squash that can store until April/May</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pumpkins in store, still ripening (they all start off green and ripen to orange just in time for Halloween, hopefully)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Habanero' chillies </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Green-in-Snow' - a winter hardy mustard salad leaf, growing inside our Victorian walled garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn planted garlic, just emerging.<br />
It's a very difficult crop to weed, which is why we use this biodegradable plastic mulch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So pretty, I had to take a picture! Rainbow chard harvested and bunched Monday, to be delivered into London shops early Tuesday morning.</td></tr>
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Here's a couple of pics to whet your appetite, they will be sale at Stoke Newington and Whitstable Farmers Markets this Saturday, and then every week until they're gone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potato harvester in action at Ripple, with one tractor pulling the machine, one driving alongside filling wooden bin as the spuds come off the belt, and 4 workers on top, sorting the clods and stones from the spuds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plenty of wooden bins still <br />
to be filled, the 'Long Plantation' woods in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Amorosa' - reds and 'Valor' - whites</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The harvester goes back to the workshop for minor repairs, Wye Crown claerly seen here looking up from 'Orchard Field' spinach, late sown leeks and kales under cover bottom right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stripy spinach - the central darker green rows are true spinach, and the outer, lighter green are perpetual spinach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early leeks, irrigated back in the drought of April/May, and now ready to harvest, <br />
looking pretty as a picture amongst the poppies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This year's squash crop is not looking so good after a relatively cool summer, many plants died in the cool conditions after planting, and those that are there still need more sun to ripen up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crown Prince squash, not yet ripe...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and butternut..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onions, drying in the field, looks like a good crop this year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The squash still have a lot of work to do after being planted so late, let's hope for a sunny September!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A patchwork of kales, Russian Red, Cavelo Nero, Red and Green Curly and Hungry Gap</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Straw bought from a local farmer, in readiness to protect the carrots and beetroot over winter.<br />
Kings Wood in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last of the leeks in the Nursery Bed that are still to be transplanted. <br />
The module grown ones are almost ready to harvest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking in to the Victorian Walled Garden. Sadly, some of the old wooden glasshouses are beyond repair.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newly sown chard inside the walled garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have sold a few organic figs at Stoke Newington market during August, this is where they came from, one of the remaining fig trees growing outside the walled garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A trial planting of Thai Basil for markets.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phacelia strip next to our early leeks, food for bees.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pear tree left over from the days when these fields were full of fruit. The pears are only good for cooking and do make a tasty jam, combined with summer and autumn berries. If you look hard you can see Wye Church in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 'Lazy Bed Weeder' - although after an afternoon on this you don't feel as if you've had a lazy afternoon at all! We all get to take turns driving the tractor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These leeks were transplanted (and then irrigated) during the 'drought' and are now doing well</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We finally got good enough ground conditions to plant our squash (not too dry, not too wet), <br />
what they need now is lots of sun</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Less watering to do as the number of plants still in plug trays lessens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 'Hungarian Hot Wax' Chillies get going</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the tomatoes start to redden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow and Green Chard plants just transplanted, we should be able to harvest chard from these plants through to next Spring, as long as thwey survive the winter (once they get a bit bigger that is!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our frindly 'Hawk Kite' bird scarer keeping the pigeons off our kales.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely, almost weed-free rows of Cos lettuce</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462010856039848114.post-72082069585044077422011-06-22T13:34:00.000-07:002012-01-13T13:27:01.493-08:00What we should be doing - June 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's almost the end of June, and we still have hundreds of squash plants ready to be transplanted, but dare we say it, it's been a bit wet and cool over the last couple of weeks!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But here we are in action, transplanting courgettes and sweetcorn a few weeks ago before the rain came, both these crops like a bit of sun, and the courgettes particularly dislike cold nights and windy days so aren't doing too well at the moment.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picking up the first of the new potatoes by hand</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seeding into module trays, the majority is done now, but crops such as lettuce will be seeded every 2 weeks until August.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweetcorn and courgettes transplanted into nice moist ground, but not enjoying the wind and cool nights since.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our quiet bird-scarer, a hawk kite, acts as a potential predator keeping smaller birds away from the crops</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Season's rainbow chard soon ready to harvest</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd outdoor sowing of carrots, in need of hand-weeding (they have already been weeded between the rows using a tractor mounted hoe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and here are the carrots after hand-weeding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cucumber, peppers and aubergines recently transplanted into a polytunnel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working very dry ground for llek transplants</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early spuds, some under cover, before being ridged up May 3rd in case of an overnight frost</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin rotovating a tunnel ready to plant tomatoes into, May Day Bank Holiday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Runner beans just transplanted, ready early after a hot April, but not enjoying the windy days after they were planted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lettuce and brassicas ready to transplant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow chard looking very pretty, but just starting to go to seed!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild Rocket spring re-growth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lettuces under fleece, not pretty but it gets us an early crop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have a few strawberries in a polytunnel, ripening up very early, May 2nd, after a very hot April<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hundreds of leek tranplants waiting for rain so they can spread their roots out in the field</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The potatoes are in the ground</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The seeding greenhouse is full, and we have transplanted some early crops of chard, beetroot and lettuce.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn sown garlic grown outdoors in the shelter of our walled garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recent sowing of onions now up, most of this early sowing will be harvested as spring/green onions</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New season's salad in polytunnel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We still have leeks</td></tr>
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And for those living in and around Wye, take a look at the Wye Food website to find out what's going on at the first ever Wye Food Festival in June<br />
<a href="http://www.wyefood.com/">http://www.wyefood.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462010856039848114.post-89562937394954334182011-03-16T13:17:00.000-07:002012-01-13T13:40:24.020-08:00Leeks Lifecycle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digging leeks, March 2011</td></tr>
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</div>Here's us harvesting leeks on Tuesday this week, a lovely spring day. When the ground is too wet or when we just have a small amount to harvest (or when the tractor is being used elsewhere) we just loosen them with a fork, then they need pulling up, and roots and topped and trimmed. Finally, back in the shed, we peel off the outer layers and they are ready.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leek Harvest in Olantigh Field, March 2011</td></tr>
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</div>Meanwhile, back in the seeding greenhouse, many of the new season's leeks are already seeded and growing. We grow some leeks in module trays, sowing several seeds per module so we don't get too may giant leeks; and some in trays, which will then be transplanted into a 'nursery bed' for a while, before being transplanted into their final home <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">leek seedlings, march 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leek Nursery, June 2010</td></tr>
</tbody></table> And this is what the leeks looked like back in December, not so easy to harvest then!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leeks - December 2010</td></tr>
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2-3 small leeks<br />
1 medium carrot<br />
1 litre vegetable stock<br />
1 lemon<br />
1 handful green garlic<br />
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Wash and cut up the leeks, soften in a little butter or oil. Add the diced carrot and stock to the leeks and simmer for 20 mins. Add the zest and juice from the lemon and the shredded green garlic and cook for a few more minutes. Add salt if desired.<br />
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Thanks to Nigel Slater for the inspiration for this soup, I hadn't thought of adding lemon to a soup before, very tasty. You can substitute cabbage or kale for the wild garlic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0