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Earlier this year I posted about how our humble bit of food production at the end of the garden was progressing<\/a>.\u00a0 As the lettuce (the last of our summer crops) gets turned to mush by the already severe frost tonight, its time for an update.<\/p>\n

Fruit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pretty much as I reported in the earlier post due to its seasonality.\u00a0 The Apple tree has had a very poor crop.\u00a0 This has upset the homegroup who were looking forward to the cider.\u00a0 I’ve bought two small apple trees one of these is in.<\/p>\n

Vegetables<\/strong><\/p>\n

Potatoes.\u00a0 As I said about half the tubers rotted before the shoots came above ground.\u00a0 Those that cropped were very good.\u00a0 The variety is a new German one called Milva.\u00a0 What I like about them apart from the colour and the taste was that they do not produce any minute ones that you miss and become “guardsman”.\u00a0 I cropped this magnificent specimen below.<\/p>\n

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I grew this Potato!<\/p><\/div>\n

The mangetout produced a reasonable crop, but poor by previous standards.\u00a0 The lettuce loved the weather and we were still eating some this week.\u00a0 One of the big surprises is I’ve managed to produce some reasonable carrots for the first time ever.\u00a0 The weather was so bad even the carrot fly couldn’t eat them!\u00a0 We have a few Parsnips but these have also cropped poorly this year.\u00a0 Courgette crops were disappointing although the plants were healthy.\u00a0 Squash was a near miss.\u00a0 The plant was quite large and produced some small ones (that rotted), but if the weather had been better we would have got some.\u00a0 The French and Runner bean crops were disappointing.\u00a0 Tomatoes did well in the end (still got a few ripening), very late, but this was due to me.\u00a0 The biggest failure was cucumbers which we had very few, made a financial loss on those.\u00a0 I don’t know what the problem was.\u00a0 They don’t need sun normally.<\/p>\n

At the end of the season I planted Winter Spinach direct into the soil which has fed the slugs and started winter lettuce inside.\u00a0 These lettuce are all planted out bar one or two stragglers, each under its own cloche made from plastic bottles cut in two and are doing well.\u00a0 In fact we have already eaten some leaves.<\/p>\n

The weather has been crazy this year.\u00a0 I’ve never seen such rain in Scotland and whilst I’m loath to attribute individual events to climate change, what’s happened in the UK this year is becoming a pattern.\u00a0 One of the big lies put about by climate sceptics is we can adapt to the changing climate.\u00a0 This year has convinced me otherwise.\u00a0 Most crops need not too much wind\/rain\/sun but just the right amount.\u00a0 A changing climate is not going to allow this.\u00a0 Add in rising oil prices, given agricultures dependency on oil and we have got a problem looming.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n

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