This Weekend

First time in weeks it has not been raining and we had a couple of good days of sunshine. Unfortunatley not many pictures today, battery ran out on the camera.

We went up for a couple of hours on Sunday, Lotties around us looking good, harvest time, there is maize, beans, courgettes squashes everything around the place, our plot on the other hand is producing some nice Dwarf French Beans, Salad leaves and we are experimenting with Radishes, we have some golden burpees and some icicles in. The leeks are looking good, but sorry folks no pictures.

But what we did do was to burn out the last of the brambles, rachel dropped in a couple of firelighters and seconds later this happened:

We worried at one point that the fire would hit the trees, but it died back quickly. Within minutes it was reduced to just a smouldering pile of ash. A bit later Richard and amanda arrived and rich watered and weeded, amanda helped rach with the bonfire. I chopped out the final amount of the brambles and let the girls burn them.

When all said and done it now looks like this:

She's clear...Of brambles, still got a fair few nettles to go, but for the first time in years, you can see from corner to corner..In the distance there is rachel and george just watching the final smoke.

So in the next couple of months, the following will happen:

Sept: Onions
Oct: Garlic
Oct: Raspberries & Gooseberries
Oct: Blackcurrents/red currents.

Ongoing; Dig out the beds to the layout designed back in July/August, it still looks good..

More soon!

Dave