Last week’s job was clearing out the cucumber tunnel.

Its not the best job in the world, with the cucumber plants withered and dead and they are always all full of cob webs.

So when...

Last week I was talking about machines, and getting a new weeder for the front of the tractor.

Well this week its machines again.

The wee compact Siroma tractor which we use for tunnel...

Summer seasonal workers has always been an entertaining time of the year.                     Entertaining,...

Pumpkin harvest time has come round again.

We can never tell how many pumpkins we will have, until we actually cut them, then place them in batches of 50.

 

That’s the courgettes finally finished for the season.

It seems like the year has really flown by, planting them feels like it was only a few weeks ago, and now they are almost...

This week we are putting Green Kale in the nets.

Kale is a great crop to grow, and is very popular, most of the customers I meet at the markets buy it for two things, one is for Juicing and the...

In the tunnels last week we direct sowed a few varieties of seed that we haven’t tried before.

It is three different types of Radishes, they are supposed to be sown at the end of August...

 

Last week we had to make a quick change to what was going in the nets for delivering.

We have been harvesting courgettes weekly for a while now, and they have been fantastic.

But...

 

Two weeks ago I had Calum helping me out on my Glasgow deliveries, and last week I had another youngster helping out.

Last Friday was Breagh’s first day on the deliveries.

 

At long last the Cucumber tunnel is almost ready to start growing Cucumbers for harvesting.

This year we lost most of the crop, right at the start.  with a very late and very...