Competition for Wimbledon

We have been harvesting our crops!!!


The birds and I have been sharing the strawberries.  Initially the ratio was 3 to the birds and 1 to me but covering the patch with netting helped reverse the ratio somewhat.  

Moja

At the time of writing we have had about a dozen, delicious, juicy strawberries and 1 radish!
Worked out against the plot, that's £7 per strawberry.  Jolly good value when compared to Wimbledon!

... having done a little extra research
28,000 kilos are consumed at Wimbledon so we have a little way to catch up (they actually cost £2.25 for 10 so we will need a few more to reduce the price to 22.5 each  (377 in fact) - will we do it? Probably not, even though the crop is looking strong. Better harvest some more radishes!

Keeping the dates straight!

In my attempt to keep you up to date with our planting, we have been putting in potatoes - yesterday we planted out first earlies, today we planted the late earlies and at the weekend probably main crop and second earlies. A few weeks ago we planted first earlies and lates both of which are doing well. 

Haven't a clue which Potato this one is
 - but it's doing well!

All clear on that then?


Now, harvesting.  You harvest earlies, and first earlies when they flower but lates, second earlies and mains when the foliage dies down.

If you put earlies in late do they become lates or are they still early?

Luke

Since coming back from university
we notice that Luke has got a lot taller!