HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY
27th June 2017
The vegetable plots are still thwarting the pesky
rabbits and the peas and broad beans promise
bumper crops. As do the potatoes with a small (we
hope) reservation. Runner beans? Can only get
better. Inside the polytunnel the tomatoes and
courgettes are going very well and we still have
plentiful cavalo nero.
Blackleg. We spotted one potato plant (left) that didn’t look quite
the right shade of green and sure enough, when we looked more
closely, the stem was rotten. It isn’t the usual air-borne blight but a
bacterial infection found in a rogue seed potato. We’ve burnt it.
The leylandii has to go.
We still haven’t decided
what to replace it with to
provide the necessary
windbreak from the south
but more yew is highly
likely, plus a rabbit-proof
fence to protect the
vegetable growing area.
We’ve been burning a lot
of the cut down wood as
well as throwing it over
the north bank into the
Morwelldown Plantation -
we were given the option
by the owner! The current
bonfire has been burning
for two days now…