The tomatoes are enjoying the amazing weather and the second batch of French beans look really good. I have a few mini sweet pepper plants, these haven’t grown with a huge amount of enthusiasm but there are quite a lot of mini peppers and they’re turning yellow now. I’ll probably pick them all in the next few weeks
The emergency broccoli may be succumbing to slugs. The Bornaskitaig slug seems to have some kind of green broccoli radar. The purple sprouting has started producing though so there should be enough to go round in the next few weeks.
I’ve started picking the apples. This has been our best crop by far. The Discovery outside aren’t huge, but there are lots of them. The crab apples are nearly ready for picking and turning into jelly. I’ve picked most of the blackcurrants, the remainder will probably find their way into the stomach of a blackbird.
Uig Gala happened on the sunniest day in the history of Uig. It was a great success, the organisers did a brilliant job. I sold a lot of jam and have had to re-arrange my craft fair schedule so I can make some more. I’ve got a lot of events scheduled from next week until around the end of October. By September the vegetables can usually withstand being ignored a bit more. They’ve either grown or they haven’t.
A bed of pointy cabbages that I’d planted a couple of months ago looked to be doing well so I removed the net cover and discovered 30 Brussel Sprout plants. Why they are sprouts and not cabbages is a bit of a mystery. I definitely sowed cabbages, cabbage plants aren’t in evidence anywhere else so I think the seed packet had the wrong seeds in it. The top of a sprout plant is like a cabbage, it’s a two for one plant really.
This week’s Croft Shares will have:
Small – potatoes, tomatoes, French beans, cabbage and apples.
Medium – potatoes, tomatoes, courgettes, French beans, cabbage, apples and sugar snaps.
Large – potatoes, tomatoes, courgettes, French beans, cabbage, apples, sugar snaps, chard, kale and onions.