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This diary will be written about twice monthly
during the summer by either Charlie or Clare to keep you updated with what is happening with the crops, people and wildlife
on the farm and anything else we feel maybe of interest.
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Sept 2009
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| Wallflowers ready to harvest |
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| Spinach after 55mm of rain |
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We have to use flotation tyres with reduced
air pressure when the ground is wet or load off the field by hand in extreme cases such as the above. Another result
of the weather is the damage to some crops and in this instance the spring onion season came to an abrupt finish and
there is nothing we could have done about it!!
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| Spring Onions flattened by the rain |
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We have started harvesting our Wallfowers (Cheiranthus)
this week which to us, means summer is well and truly over!! They are pulled with the root on, with ten plants per bunch all
done by hand and it is probably the dirtest job on the farm as the mud flicks everywhere. Writing about mud brings
me to what happened a couple of days ago on the farm. The picture shows the Wallflowers with an irrigation machine watering
them as it had been very dry!! That was about to change in the space of 6 hours we had over 55mm of rain and the reason for
not knowing the exact amount, the rain gauge had overflowed and only measures up to 55mm!! Even the weather website we use
had an apology the next day for the under estimation. Trying to harvest the day after was interesting to say the least
a pair of boats for boots would have helped!!
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| Can Coriander Swim! |
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