Monday, July 13, 2009
A few pics from the harvest so far this month.
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The first of the rainbow chard. Picked the first week in July, the dry spells followed by the heavy rains have meant that a good lot of the earlier sown chard has bolted, along with some of the spinach. Lots of spinach picked already but none photographed.
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The first load of Colleen earlies. This was just the first row that I dug and it yielded just over 13 KGs.
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More rainbow chard picked yesterday.
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Some carrot thinnings (alot of which were pretty useful), small pea harvest, turnip thinnings (nice roasted whole) and the blessed beetroot. Can't get enough of this one, the variety is Boltardy and it's doing great for me with very little soil preparation. These all get roasted whole in my house with loads of honey, salt and pepper.
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Yesterdays haul. Another 15 KGs of earlies (Colleens). These turned out to be a good cropper. I may have earthed them up a little late though as on each plant there was 4-5 large spuds, 1 or 2 tiny marble sized ones and a couple of salad sized ones. Had a few last night with a ridiculous amount of butter...nom nom nom.
Image 001
The first of the rainbow chard. Picked the first week in July, the dry spells followed by the heavy rains have meant that a good lot of the earlier sown chard has bolted, along with some of the spinach. Lots of spinach picked already but none photographed.
Image 002
The first load of Colleen earlies. This was just the first row that I dug and it yielded just over 13 KGs.
Image 003
More rainbow chard picked yesterday.
Image 004
Some carrot thinnings (alot of which were pretty useful), small pea harvest, turnip thinnings (nice roasted whole) and the blessed beetroot. Can't get enough of this one, the variety is Boltardy and it's doing great for me with very little soil preparation. These all get roasted whole in my house with loads of honey, salt and pepper.
Image 005
Yesterdays haul. Another 15 KGs of earlies (Colleens). These turned out to be a good cropper. I may have earthed them up a little late though as on each plant there was 4-5 large spuds, 1 or 2 tiny marble sized ones and a couple of salad sized ones. Had a few last night with a ridiculous amount of butter...nom nom nom.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Maynooth Allotments on Maynooth.org
We've been featured on maynooth.org along with Paddy from plot 32.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Plot 40 Picasa Slideshow
Myself and Isabelle were down on the plot last night to take some photos in the nice evening light.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Message Board Down
The message board is down at the minute, don't know why and haven't had any response from hosting phpbb. Will update when it comes back online.
UPDATE 19/06/09: Message board is back up and running now.
UPDATE 19/06/09: Message board is back up and running now.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Paddys Blog and Blight Warning
Check out fellow Maynooth Allotmenteer Paddy Fada's Blog. He's got lots of great pics of his and others plots.
In other news a blight warning was issued on the 13th June and conditions conducive to the spread of blight will continue up until Wednesday 17th. With all this rain forecast for later I'm wondering whether to bother spraying. I have seen people spraying over the last few weeks and would be interested to know what concoctions are going on the spuds. Plain ol' Dithane or something more interesting...? I'll be spraying with diluted milk and a mixture of bi-carbonate of soda, washing up liquid and water. There's a good Horsetail recipe on the Irish Gardeners forum:
"Herbal teas concocted from common weeds/herbs such as nettle, horsetail (Equisetum arvense ) and comfrey can be sprayed on potato foliage to help prevent the spread of blight disease.
To make the horsetail tea you should ideally in early summer pick the green part of the plant, leaves and stem, excluding the root. You will need one kilogram (2 ¼ pounds) of equisetum to submerge in drum filled with 20 litres of rain water, stirring it daily over three or four weeks.
When the time comes, mix it in your watering can at a rate of ten parts water to one part horsetail tea, then water liberally onto your plants. Plants that show any symptoms of bight or other fungal type disease should be sprayed with this mix once every four days.
If in a rush to create a batch of horsetail tea, you can make up some by simmering 1/2 kilogram of the weed in a pot with 10 litres of rain water for about an hour. Once cooled it should again be mixed it in your watering can at a rate of ten parts water to one part horsetail tea."
And apparently a Burgundy Mixture of:
50 grammes of copper sulphate (bluestone)
60 grammes of sodium carbonate (washing soda) or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in five litres of water
while not strictly organic is acceptable for use by alot of organic gardeners.
Anyone noticing any blight like symptoms on their spuds?
In other news a blight warning was issued on the 13th June and conditions conducive to the spread of blight will continue up until Wednesday 17th. With all this rain forecast for later I'm wondering whether to bother spraying. I have seen people spraying over the last few weeks and would be interested to know what concoctions are going on the spuds. Plain ol' Dithane or something more interesting...? I'll be spraying with diluted milk and a mixture of bi-carbonate of soda, washing up liquid and water. There's a good Horsetail recipe on the Irish Gardeners forum:
"Herbal teas concocted from common weeds/herbs such as nettle, horsetail (Equisetum arvense ) and comfrey can be sprayed on potato foliage to help prevent the spread of blight disease.
To make the horsetail tea you should ideally in early summer pick the green part of the plant, leaves and stem, excluding the root. You will need one kilogram (2 ¼ pounds) of equisetum to submerge in drum filled with 20 litres of rain water, stirring it daily over three or four weeks.
When the time comes, mix it in your watering can at a rate of ten parts water to one part horsetail tea, then water liberally onto your plants. Plants that show any symptoms of bight or other fungal type disease should be sprayed with this mix once every four days.
If in a rush to create a batch of horsetail tea, you can make up some by simmering 1/2 kilogram of the weed in a pot with 10 litres of rain water for about an hour. Once cooled it should again be mixed it in your watering can at a rate of ten parts water to one part horsetail tea."
And apparently a Burgundy Mixture of:
50 grammes of copper sulphate (bluestone)
60 grammes of sodium carbonate (washing soda) or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in five litres of water
while not strictly organic is acceptable for use by alot of organic gardeners.
Anyone noticing any blight like symptoms on their spuds?
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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