2001 Record

1 Tomatoes

All tomatoes etc in April. Half in first week, half in third week. Under fleece.
Lettuce plant till June.
Aubergine Black Beauty, Aubergine long purple, Pepper California Wonder, Pepper Long Red Marconi, Pepper Cayenne.
Tomato: Matina, Moneymaker, Beefsteak, Marmande Super, Tigerella, Gardener's Delight, Yellow Pear, Tomatillo, (Branywine not delivered).
Basil: Sweet, Lettuce leaved, Lemon.
Lettuce: Buttercrunch, Marvel of Four Seasons, Smile, Paris Island Cos, Remus, Floreal.
Raddish Cherry Belle.

1b

February: Garlic sown in rows 1 and 2.
Week 1/4 - 3/4 Row 1 Aubergine etc, row 2 Tomatoes
Raddish and Lettuce on 1/4/01. Raddish, Smile, Buttercrunch, Paris, Marvel of Four Seasons (?), Remus, Floreal.
Week 9/4 - 15/4: Prepare plots.
Week 16/4 - 22/4: Plant tomatoes etc in rows 4 and 5. Start other end. Some varieties finished - Long Red Marconi, Cayenne, Strawberry Spinach, Basil Lemon; Moneymaker, Beefsteak, Marmande Super, Tigerella, Gardener's Delight, Yellow Pear.
Week 23/4: Prepare and plant lettuce in drills.
Week 30/4: Last sowing of tomatoes. Maintain.
Week 7/5: Lettuce in drills and maintain, Remus finished.
Week 14/5: Mow unplanted area.
Week 21/5: Till unplanted area.
Week 27/5: Weed tomatoes. None seem to have germinated. Use flail mower for strips because no emergence evident. Hand weeding of garlic. Rerotovate first lettuce row - Raddish, smile and floreal OK, rest failed. Replant from drills also - raddish, smile, floreal and Paris Island Cos?
Planted 6 rows potatoes at bottom of plot Osprey, Kestrel, Robinta, Nicola, Verity, Arran.
Week 4/6: Sow remaining lettuce (except Floreal) and raddish. Consider repurchase
Week 11/6: -
Week 18/6: Plant more lettuce
Week 25/6: Mow tomatoes.
Week 2/7: -
Week 9/7: Raddish to seed, some harvested.
Week 16/7: Dry weather
Week 23/7: Start lettuce harvest
Week 30/7: Strim in between potatoes.
Week 6/8: Harvest lettuce - floreal productive, also smile and cos.
Week 13/8: Humid weather, blight attack.
Week 20/8: Cut stems of blighted potatoes. Verity all OK! Start harvest - all Nicola plus some others.
Week 27/8: Floreal lettuce beginning to seed.
Week 3/9: Continue harvest potatoes and start garlic. Flowering garlic taken for seed.
Week 10/9: Continue harvest.
Week 17/9: Continue harvest.
Week 24/9: Continue harvest.
Week 1/10: Continue harvest.
Week 8/10: Continue harvest.
Week 15/10: Continue harvest.
Week 22/10: Continue harvest. Garlic flower bulbs planted.
Week 29/10: Continue harvest.
Week 5/11: Continue harvest.

1c

Remove last potatoes and tidy.
Greenhouse tomatoes very successful - cropping from August to September. Plan for greenhouse next year.

Plant beans April to May. 1 pack of each variety every two weeks or 1 pack per week in April and 2 packs per week in May. Prepare quarter of plot every two weeks.
Futura (instead of Super Aquadulce) BB, Prizewinner RB, Milagrow FB, Maxi FB x2, Slenderette FB, Hildora FB (Modus FB not delivered)
Dill.

2b

Futura beans planted 31/3 with some dill every 10 plants.
Week 9/4: plant bag of Futura. Prepare 4 rows for next week.
Week 16/4: plant 1 bag of Futura - all planted. Harvested some young parsnip from 2000.
Week 23/4: Preparation of one row.
Week 30/4: -
Week 7/5 Prepare and maintain.
Week 14/5: Plant 1 bag of each variety.
Week 21/5: Till remainder of plot. Carrots and parsnip now seeding (therefore OK till ~ March).
Week 27/5: Mow interrows. Sow 1 bag of each variety in a new row.
Week: 4/6: Stake beans and weed.
Week 11/6:
Week 18/6: Plant another bag of each
Week 25/6: Plant dill.
Week 2/7: Consider repurchase if space allows.
Week 9/7: -
Week 16/7: Start harvest broad beans.
Week 23/7: Weed first batch. (Mow interows and strim edges).
Week 30/7: Tractor till end.
Week 6/8: Harvest last of broad beans. Stake runner beans.
Week 13/8: -
Week 20/8: - (needs strim)
Week 27/8: -
Week 3/9: Weed in between rows. Start harvest of runner beans and french beans.
Week 10/9: -
Week 17/9: Harvest beans and hand weed.
Week 24/9: Continue harvest.
Week 1/10: Continue harvest.
Week 8/10: Continue harvest.
Week 15/10: Continue harvest.
Week 22/10: Continue harvest.
Week 29/10: Last harvest of beans. Also take last of dill.

2c

Prepare ground as possible.

Turnips early to late so sow slow.
Leeks to be transplanted, so leave space. Also 6 month growing season.
Onions, parsnip and garlic chives now.
Turnip Purple Top Milan, Turnip Tops Namenia. Parsnip Guernsey.
Garlic Chives, Leek Alora, Leek Monst de Cartenan, Onion Dorato di Parma, Onion Suron Globe, Onion Stuttgarter, Piroska onion set NO.
Carrot: Chantenay, Danvers, Magno, Starka, Berlicum, Flakee, Rothild, Cubic

3b

Some garlic resown from 2000 in 2 rows in January, February, March.
Week 2/4: Double row of garlic chives and parsnip, turnip etc sown 4/4. Only half row filled.
Carrots (5 varieties Starka, Berlicum, Flakee, Rothild, Cubic) sown in double row on 4/4. Only half row filled.
Week 9/4: prepare two more rows.
Week 16/4: Plant more parsnips etc from other end.
Week 23/4: Plant more carrots from other end plus some Pirstoika onion sets. Preparation
Week 30/4: Plant Chantenay, Danvers, Magno and prepare.
Week 7/5: Till
Week 14/5: -
Week 21/5: -
Week 27/5: Mow and weed. Till rest of plot.
Week 4/6: Sow rest of onions and carrots. Buy more.
Week 11/6: Sow onion sets. Weed
Week 18/6: Weed.
Week 25/6: -
Week 2/7: -
Week 9/7: - Last carrots
Week 16/7: -
Week 23/7: Water weed attack!
Week 30/7: Strim all including latest rows and edges to reveal carrots.
Week 6/8: -
Week 13/8: -
Week 20/8: Strim top of water weed (too late).
Week 27/8: -
Week 3/9: Strim interows. Start harvesting.
Week 10/9: -
Week 17/9: Carrots doing well. Continue harvest.
Week 24/9: Continue harvest.
Week 1/10: Continue harvest. Harvest flowering onion for seed.
Week 8/10: Continue harvest. Some parsnip ready.
Week 15/10: Continue harvest.
Week 22/10: Continue harvest.
Week 29/10: Continue harvest.
Week 5/11: Continue harvest.

3c

Continue harvesting, prepare ground if possible.

Courgette 1 bag every 2 weeks starting in May. Cucumber in May.
Plant old nasturtium and pumpkin in April.
Courgette; Nero di Milan, Partenon
Cucumber: Stimora Mix, Muncher, Marketmore.
Pumpkin: Genovese, Greenwich, Uchiki Kuri, Delicata, Baby Bear, Vegetable Spaghetti, Small Sugar, Big Max, Buttercup,.

4b

Old nasturtium sown 29/3.
Week 9/4: sow old nasturtium and pumpkin. Prepare 2 more rows.
Week 16/4: -
Week 23/4: Plant Partenon, Nero Di Milan . Preparation.
Week 30/4: Plant Cucumber and Pumpkin.
Week 7/5: -
Week 14/5: - -
Week 21/5: -
Week 27/5: Till remainder.
Week 4/6: Plant remainder of seeds except courgette, plus nasturtium.
Week 11/6: Odds from saved seed jars.
Week 18/6: Weed.
Week 25/6: Transplanted melons and cover with fleece (others already eaten).
Week 2/7: -
Week 9/7: -
Week 16/7: -
Week 23/7: -
Week 30/7: Strim whole to reveal some gourd leaves.
Week 6/8: Sow courgettes.
Week 13/8: -
Week 20/8: -
Week 27/8: -
Week 3/9: Strim tops and interows. Pinch out end of some pumpkin and marrow.
Week 10/9: -
Week 17/9: Start harvest of umpkin and marrow.
Week 24/9: Germnination of late sown marrow OK, but growth slow.
Week 1/10: Continue harvest.
Week 8/10: Continue harvest.
Week 15/10: Continue harvest.
Week 22/10: Continue harvest.
Week 29/10: Continue harvest.
Week 5/11: Continue harvest.

4c

Continue harvest. Prepare ground if possible. Centre boggy!

Seven varieties, 12.5 kg per week ~ 2 kg per variety. Keep Arran Victory and Verity till late April.
Kestrel (purple eye), Osprey (red eye), Remarka, Robinta, Arran Victory (purple floury), Verity (red eyes, red rose), Nicola. Thyme.

5b

Old marigold sown on 4/4. Part row.
One row of potatoes on 4/4: Kestrel, Remarka, Osprey.
Week 9/4: Sow rest of marigold row with Robinta, Nicola, Arran. . Prepare 2 more rows
Week 16/4: sow another 2 rows: Kestrel, Remarka, Osprey, Nicola, Robinta, Arran.
Week 23/4: Preparation and marigold in row
Week 30/4: Sow another 2 rows???
Week 7/5: -
Week 14/5: -
Week 21/5: Plant one row each of Osprey, Kestrel, Robinta, Nicola (later sprouting than others), Verity, Arran Victory, Remarka.
Week 27/5: Sow 6 rows in plot 1.
Week 4/6: Sow Marigold in bottom row(s).
Week 11/6: -
Week 18/6: Weed.
Week 25/6: -
Week 2/7: -
Week 9/7: Mow interows. Crow attack is bad, may not recover.
Week 16/7:
Week 23/7:
Week 30/7: Still not flowering! Others (plot 1) doing well.
Week 6/8: Mow interows.
Week 13/8: -
Week 20/8: -
Week 27/8: -
Week 3/9: Plants recessed. Mow stalks, begin harvest. Poor yields in first four rows because of crow attack.
Week 10/9: -
Week 17/9: Potato digger works well to remove top layer of soil, then pass with plough to turn out potatoes.
Week 24/9: -
Week 1/10: Continyue harvest.
Week 8/10: Continue harvest. Heavy rain makes harvest difficult.
Week 15/10: Continue harvest. Marigold seed harvested.
Week 22/10: Continue harvest.
Week 29/10: Final harvest. Yields poor but economical.

5c

Prepare ground if possible

Corn protected in April or in open in May. (If fleece remains consider early sowing.)
Sweet Majoram NO in May.
Corn: Jubilee, Golden Bantam, Double Play.
Beetroot April - July. Sow slow to get long season. Libero, Detroit Globe, Egyptian. Carillon

6b

Beetroot sown 1/2 pack 3 varieties 4/4. Keep rest till May.
Week 9/4: Corn sown similar to beetroot.  Staggered planting. Covered with fleece.
Week 16/4: Preparation
Week 23/4: Maintain
Week 30/4: Sow remainder corn and some beetroot under cover.
Week 7/5: Mow plot and prepare 2 more rows.
Week 14/5: -
Week 21/5: Mow
Week 27/5: Till remainder of plot. Mow interows.
Week 4/6: Sow more beetroot.
Week 11/6: Check.
Week 18/6: Resow more corn - Golden Bantam?
Week 25/6: -
Week 2/7: Mow/till whole except germinated corn and beetroot.
Week 9/7: Weed beets and corn.
Week 16/7: -
Week 23/7: Till end.
Week 30/7: -
Week 6/8: -
Week 13/8: -
Week 20/8: -
Week 27/8: -
Week 3/9: -
Week 10/9: Strim top of beets. Harvest corn. Very poor. Not properly developed.
Week 17/9: -
Week 24/9: -
Week 1/10: -
Week 8/10: -
Week 15/10: Start harvest of beets, penultimate sowing is yielding.
Week 22/10: -
Week 29/10: Continue harvest of beets.
Week 5/11: Continue harvest.

6c

Mixed: some now till July. Tatsoi in July.
Broccoli Rudolph, Calabrese Green Spouting, Calabrese Waltham, Brussels Sprout Igor F1, Brussels Sprout Fillbasket, Cabbage Marner Allfruh, Cabbage Cuor di Bue, Cabbage Savoy Vertus, Cauliflower Vroege, Chinese Cabbage Tatsoi.
Swiss Chard, Rhubarb chard, Kale Red Winter, Kale Westland Winter, Spinach Matador, Spinach Viroflay, Spinach Giant Winter, Spinach Strawberry.
Celery Imerial Organic, Chicory Palla Rossa, Chickory Sugar Loaf.
Rosemary NO.

7b

Week 2/4: Karina peas sown by mistake in first part of first row.
Then brassicas and spinach sown in 2 rows 1/4: cauliflower vroege melchese, cabbage Marner Alfruh, spinach Avanti, spinach Monopa;//; spinach Matador, spinach viroflay, calabrese Green Sprouting, calabrese Waltham.
Week 9/4: Prepare 4 more rows.
Week 16/4: Sow 2 rows as before, plus Rosemary at end.
Week 23/4: Prepare and sow new group: Leaf Beet Swiss Chard, Leaf Beet Rhubarb Chard, Celery Imperial, Broccoli Rudolph, Kale Westland Winter, Kale Red Winter, Brussels Sprout FillBasket, Brussels Sprout Igor.
Week 30/4: Prepare 2 rows.
Week 7/5: Drills of group 1.
Week 14/5: Drills of group 2
Week 21/5: Group 3 Cabbage Vertus, Cabbage Cuor di Blue, Chicory Palla Rossa, Chicory Sugar Loaf, (Tatsi and Giant Winter Spinach not sown).
Week 27/5: Mow interows.
Week 4/6: Sow remainder group 1 and some of group 2, U turn UP on group 2.
Week 11/6: Mow rows, some coming up. Spinach does better than cabbage.
Week 18/6: Weed and mow.
Week 25/6: Swiss chard and rhubarb chard only.
Week 2/7: -
Week 9/7: Weed sprouting rows.
Week 16/7: Weed sprouting rows.
Week 23/7: -
Week 30/7: -
Week 6/8: Rotovate upper rows with 4wheel tractor.
Week 13/8: -
Week 20/8: Start harvesting chard - coppice style.
Week 27/8: Continue harvest.
Week 3/9: Continue harvest.
Week 10/9: Continue harvest.
Week 17/9: Continue harvest.
Week 24/9: Continue harvest. Harvest some cabbage leaves but bad catterpillar attack.
Week 1/10: Continue harvest.
Week 8/10: Continue harvest.
Week 15/10: Continue harvest.
Week 22/10: Continue harvest.
Week 29/10: Continue harvest.
Week 5/11: Continue harvest.

7c

Continue harvesting chard. Prepare ground if possible.

Wet patch avoided.  Use spare corner so plot 8 is unusual shape.
9 varieties to be sown March to June: 10 to 20 seeds per week.
Peppermint NO.
Karina, Alderman Rama, Progress #9, Ezetha's Krombek, Oregon Sugarpod, Markana, Rondo, Norli; Sugar Snap NO

8b

Rest of bag of Karina plus mint in first row and Alderman Rama in 2^nd row. Only half of each row filled.
Week 9/4: Prepare 4 more rows. Plant 1 bags Progress 9.
Week 16/4: Plant 1 bag Ezetha's Krombek.
Week 23/4: Prepare and plant some sugar snap in row 1
Week 30/4: Prepare and plant Oregon Sugar Pod and Markana
Week 7/5: Prepare and sow sugar snap
Week 14/5: -
Week 21/5: Tilled remainder of plot
Week 27/5: Plant Norli and Rondo, plus some sugar snap. Mow interows.
Week 4/6: Sow bag of Karina and Alderman Rama. Sow mint in near sugar snap.
Week 11/6: Stake peas
Week 18/6: Weed
Week 25/6: Sow Progress 9 and Ezetha's Krombeck. Till end of plot.
Week 2/7: Sow Oregon and Markana.
Week 9/7: Weed. Start to crop; Karina C, Alderman B, P9 A, EK A.
Week 16/7: Sow Norli
Week 23/7: -
Week 30/7: -
Week 6/8: Sow 5 short rows.
Week 13/8: -
Week 20/8: Last harvest of peas. Some kept for seed. Remove tractor from bog!
Week 27/8: -
Week 3/9: 5 rows sprouting well.
Week 10/9: -
Week 17/9: -
Week 24/9: Weed 5 rows.
Week 1/10: -
Week 8/10: Cover 5 rows with fleece.
Week 15/10: -
Week 22/10: -
Week 29/10: 5 rows all in flower, some peas emerging.
Week 5/11: -

8c

Watch 5 rows. Harvest if/when ready.

21/5 Rotovated whole
25/6 Rotovated patch.
20/8 Rotovated whole.
3/9 Fennel's removed fallen wall to corner of garden field. 8/10 Rotovated top 4 ha.

21/5 Rotovated whole
23/7 Rotovated whole
20/8 Rotovated whole.
24/9 Cleared stream, upper half only.
1/10 Rotovated whole.

Waste silt/soil piled in front of shed to help with ground firmness.
15/10 4wheel tractor stuck in cantry bog! Very wet in centre consider system (rotation, perennials etc). But soil improving well.
Joe Rothwell for mechanical engineering - digger, rake, greenhouse etc.
Build irrigation system and tunnel.
Diesel chain saw, splitter, shredder. Hay baler.