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Augustby Ken Clark - 19:26 on 26 August 2010Picked my first bag of apples from the allotment orchard today, if they taste as nice as they look they will be fabulous. The beet has cropped well, June pickled a couple of jars last fortnight, one jar full has been eaten so-far, you have to be a little careful eating beetroot, it can certainly colour things! Just picked some more today and harvested a few red skin onions, these were very successful last year and stored extremely well, I dry them off in the greenhouse this allows the tops to dry off ready for storage. I am pleased they are still growing and have not flopped over yet. It has been a bit of a dry season believe it or not, potatoes harvested for the allotment show last week didn’t crop very well compared to last years harvest, it is something you cannot change, the weather, you have to go with what ever nature throws at you.
Collected about a dozen Hazel nuts from the church hedge, after I cut it a couple of weeks ago, they have been planted in a pot and will hopefully germinate in the spring to develop into hazel seedlings. I am quite fond of hazel (the tree variety of course) and I am hoping to plant more of them over the coming years in and around the plantation at New Lambton. These coppice extremely well and can be a very useful tree. They can be split and woven into hurdles, I am unsure about the quality of the hazel nuts for eating as I always plant mine.
Have you seen any hedgehogs this year? I have heard them in my garden at night and June opened the garden gate to allow one into the garden a few nights ago but I have yet to see my first one this year.
I think they are great, it is a few years ago now that I had a one hibernating in a pile of leaves where my rhubarb grows.
We are feeding the sparrow population of Bournmoor at the moment in our garden, a jug of seed can be eaten by these hungry birds, on a daily basis, I am surprised they can even fly away when you think how much they have eaten.
Soon the Rowan / Mountain Ash berries will be harvested by the starlings as they can soon strip a tree of its red and yellow fruits.
Later the elderberries will be plundered by the starlings so watch out for your washing hanging on the line as they can make a nasty mess after a feast on the elder, good job these starlings don’t eat beetroot1
I haven’t seen many acorns this year, maybe it is a little early, most trees have seem to have had a good season in producing fruits and seed, horse chestnuts have done well and will soon be set upon by the “conkering” fraternity.
Blackberries are starting to ripen now, this always reminds me of autumn creeping nearer, I shouldn’t mention this as we still should have a bit of late summer to look forward to.
We always seem to get the first signs of late summer from the wasp activity, they seem to sense their life span shortening as they seem to get more aggressive, not that they are a friendly creature at other times.
Well, I will let you know what the apples tasted like next month. If I don’t get stung harvesting them.
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