Update TomatoesThis week has been perfect tomato growing weather, good soaking rain and warm weather have them exploding with growth and the fruit are swelling up too. However too much rain can spread fungal diseases and you need to be on the look out for this. We have started picking cherry tomatoes from our 'bruscetta bask...
ZucchiniThe 'Black Beauty' and 'Gold Bullion' zucchini are growing strong. Anticipate amature size of 1m x 1m with huge leaves. They are an easy variety to grow, prolific, tastiest when picked small (see photo) and crop better than other zucchini vareities. we planted 10 plants in full sun until 4pm when they are...
Salad GreensCalling all salad lovers! Crisp and crunchy salads are perfect at this time of year, when every dinner feels fresher with a salad on the side. Grow a range of salad greens and you will have a constant supply of leaves to pick: mignonette, baby spinach, baby cos, coral green, oakleaf red, oakleaf green and coral red (...
* Keep feeding tomato plants, we like Harvest from Amgrow as it keeps them healthy the organic way. In fact we feed all our vegetables with Harvest every 10 days.* Keep rainbow chard, spinach and rhubarb well fed, this way you'll prevent caterpillars the natural way. Keep harvesting leaves from outside to encourage new ones....