Backyard Update Late August 2017 Full HD
Channel: Allotment Fox
Date: 2017-08-27

Bank holiday update. It's now late summer and I am cropping from both the greenhouse and the garden. Tomatoes and french beans are aplenty; though I am getting a glut of them, I haven’t yet tired of them. From the greenhouse I am also getting plenty of cucumbers, basil and some peppers, though not as many peppers as I would like. I can make quite big plants but not so many fruits.

I have noticed that stinging nettles have been stopping me from getting to my compost heaps. They act a bit like barbed wire, so I donned my long sleeved raincoat and my rubber gloves. I still got stung. I have used the trimmings to make nettle tea, a liquid fertiliser.

My grapes need thinning, though quite frankly, I am way too late, but hope springs eternal. I thinned both the grape bunches and the branches. I may have massacred the plant, oh dear!