August and what an August for the harvest of our crops

Wednesday 3^rd August

Small pumpkins are beginning to peep through huge green leaves

Pumpkins have plants have taken over

Flower bed is looking so colorful, gladiolus so beautiful, so erect and so colourful

Brightens up the rooms.

AND today we took home 

Green Courgettes                                3kg 500

Yellow Courgettes                               1kg 100

Potatoes  from the old bed                      600g

Potatoes we had planted                   3kg 700

Red and white onions                        3kg 700

What an amazing harvest.

Green and yellow

 6^th August 2016

Our daughter visited for the first time and she was so amazed at what has been achieved in such a short space of time. She could not believe the courgette harvest.

Our daughter  amongst the courgette crop

and more...

Some raspberries too

Small pumpkin picking..

The pumpkin growth is like a field of it's own they have grown like the triffids and there is no stopping them spreading in all directions. This is just a result to 5 plants.

What a harvest for the day...

Lending a helping hand

Yellow courgettes    2kg 100

Green courgettes     2kg 450

Pumpkin 1                 1kg 200

Pumpkin 2                 2kg 200

Pumpkin 3                 2kg 700

Beans                         1kg 400          

13^th August 16

Green and yellow beans so tender...

Carry on picking the courgettes please

The picking is still good.

1 green courgettes  alone weighed  2kg 200

 and another weighed                        3kg 400

                                                                2kg 400
Total                                                       9kg

Yellow courgettes                                       600g

Beans                                                      2kg 850

Flower bed ....wow

So colourful

18th August

Dave bought a wheelie bin full of pony poo…and we piled it onto the bed that we had covered in plastic this year to keep out the weeds. 

It is hard work collecting the PP and it is equally hard work spreading it, Mr S does not mind.

All good for the crops

Courgettes gave 3 away to our LG friend

and took home

Green Courgettes                                          1kg150

Red potatoes from last year's crop            3kg 850

20th August
The strawberries have not really worked in the strawberry tower, maybe because we lined the tower. Decided to pull them out and put them straight into a new bed.

Strawberry bed created 

Strawberries runners planted

        
Todays catch

Green Courgettes     5kg 400

Yellow courgettes    1kg 200

Potatoes                    1kg 200

Onions                              600g    

       

Wednesday 24^th August

Green  courgettes                  11.9kg

Yellow  courgettes                    3.9kg

29th August 
Another day at the LG

Lovely sunny day, some tidying up and some harvesting of potatoes and of course courgettes.

Most of the potatoes are from what the previous LG owner a whole bed potatoes.

Tidying up

Potato harvest

What a shape and so huge

Today's harvest

Pumpkins doing great

And we have one small melon.

Mr S keeps busy...

and today's courgettes 

green                          2k 400

yellow                         1k 200

Will they ever stop producing?