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I've been growing vegetables since 2008, mainly for display at shows. The purpose of this blog is to show what you can do to grow a product that deserves its place not only on the display board but also on the dining table.
I think it is difficult but it froze this friday / saturday morning june month although it is to be, and the longest dear ingo day near two weeks away! Luckily my father had predicted the event and had to cover the potatoes with fleece.
In surprising the leaves were touching the fleece has been damaged by the ice despite the gorchydd. He must have been a hard frost because the thermometer in the tunnel showed that she had dropped to 0C inside the tunnel so what did she knows what out?
Berig than I would have if I would have been covered ta ta show on potato quality shows ha 'ma'. They should pull through but will need and leave the land for an extra couple of weeks or I was going to give them the opportunity for the step back they have received. I decided to pick up the shallots all last week because I noticed a few have started their second period of growth so the bulbs are getting ready to cut in two again. It is important to be raised before this happens or the bulbs are going to be useless for the show by getting out of shape.
The first thing I did was put a fork under each cluster to make sure the plants do not get any kind of food or rain while I was preparing the site to be dried. While they were drying on the soil surface I set about making a wood frame with 'chicken wire' dear ingo to the shallots have a lie on it to get dry thoroughly so that they stick to each show but more importantly to keep them for next year To replanted.
There are over a hundred of them on the drying frame. I've dear ingo laid out so that the leaves face down slightly so that the rain or any moisture flow away from the shallots so reduces the chances of bulbs turned dear ingo bad so is unlikely to abide by year Next. Although there are a large number of them here and the majority measuring between 40mm and 50mm, will have a very difficult 12 is the same for the big show in Llangollen. In recent weeks there's quite a bit has been achieved on the patch and everything is almost has planted now. Currently I'm planting cauliflower currently planted one row after another, leaving few days between each row over two weeks. In doing so I hope to have plants that reached dear ingo their best for the shows and dates do not come together immediately with a large swarm. dear ingo The camera dear ingo battery flat at the moment but I put pictures here over the weekend to show how everything is coming along.
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