I picked my first sweetcorn yesterday, 1 September. Perhaps a few days too early - they still had a bit of growing to do - but absolutely delicious. Each had 15 rows of kernels, and they had all set properly. I did a bit of hand pollinating, which might have helped. I cut off a few of the top tassels and wiped them over the silks protruding from the cobs lower down a few weeks ago.
Also harvesting beans and courgettes (lots) and chard, cabbage, carrots, beetroot, spring onions and potatoes. This year's hard work has not been in vain!
This shows our 10 000 litre water butt, which is now plumbed in. It has a submersible pump, which (when necessary) feeds the smaller watering stations dotted round the plots. It is also topped up automatically from the mains, and there is also a supply of drinking water, protected by a non-return valve. Well done Alan!! (And not for the first time either. Alan has been responsible for, and has done the work on, most of the improvements made to the site since we started here 2 1/2 years ago.)
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