First produce

 At last a bit of produce worth shouting about. Pak Choi. I have given a couple away, but we have eaten a couple, in stir frys . It’s not a particularly tasty vegetable, but nice and crunchy. I have bought a few more small plants and planted them. We have loads of flowers on the broad beans, I pinched the tips out, in order to mitigate the black fly. I washed the plants with soapy water to try and eliminate any black fly on the plants. They are not too badly affected by the black fly so far. The bindweed not surprisingly is still coming back, in open ground I can get rid of it, but in the raised beds and underneath the beds, it’s not possible to do. The Sweet Potato plants aren’t looking very good, flowers on the peas, the brassicas are mostly doing well especially the Kohl Rabi.

On my old plot, the tenant’s husband has built this amazing bug house, for all sorts of insects. You can’t quite clearly see the lady birds on the roof.

It’s neatly time for the next TRHA show, one of the cakes is a Date and Walnut cake. It came out quite well, you can use Mascarpone or Cream cheese as the icing, I used Cream cheese, the verdict was, we think Mascarpone would have been better. The other Domestic class I might enter, is a Jam roll, bit tricky, I will try a test one next week. I don’t think I am going to have any produce to enter the show, everything is really late this year.

I have completed one dig sit, a few days off, then another sit. I have been doing a lot more work on the Show Spreadsheet, checking it imports correctly all the import files. It’s all done now, I don’t want to change much before the show.