Small Garden July 5th

20 long July days since we made this video, and finally I'm publishing! Sorry for the delay - Edward had hoped to send me the edited version while away in China, but could not.
Homeacres small garden is no dig with compost mulch on beds, and is 25 m² / 270 ft.². I keep succession cropping the 12 blocks of fruit and vegetables.
See the earlier videos in the series on my playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7WDfop74y-njULr-6gXPcfyF_VHS4mm5

UPDATES since the video
The beetroot are now finished and instead of fennel, I planted strawberries.
The lettuce finished and I transplanted multisown chard.
Onions I cleared 24th July, and planted savoy cabbage. Pigeons immediately tried to eat them so I covered with mesh.
Likewise calabrese, which I transplanted after potatoes. They yielded 6kg altogether, from 5 seed potatoes.

WEATHER UPDATE
We filmed this after almost 7 weeks of sunny, very dry weather. I had a feeling this was not going to last and unfortunately I am correct. Writing now on 25th of July, we are in a spell of very unsettled weather which will last for another month. Counting the 40 days since mid July, we can expect some better weather in the last week of August and possibly into September.
However I have seen a lot of trails in the sky. Weather modification is happening, and makes it harder to forecast ahead, because the old rhythms can be broken.

00:00 Introduction, I talk about watering
00:53 Leeks, possibility of allium leaf miner
01:35 Dill, keeping plants for seeds
01:58 Beetroot, options for succession plantings
02:25 Lettuce, how the plants look when close to finishing
03:00 Chard as a succession planting
03:27 Onions
04:24 Flowers – zinnias, dwarf French marigolds
05:02 Potatoes – I harvest a plant, Charlotte second early, with an interesting result
08:02 Tomatoes – I explain ways to care for the plants to support growth
10:02 The climate in Somerset, plus see intro
10:31 Empty spaces after clearing tall peas and calabrese broccoli
11:46 I harvest a cauliflower and discover a caterpillar, plus likely root damage from cabbage root fly
14:19 Options to fill the space – dwarf French beans, beetroot, chicory, frizzy endive
16:38 Ridge cucumbers – two ridge varieties, Marketmore and Spacemaster, when to harvest
18:01 Harvesting carrots, early Nantes and Napoli, a hybrid
19:41 Strawberries Marshmello, and how to propagate
21:24 Sorrel and mallow, Molope vulcan
22:13 Tayberry (where the fig tree used to be) – a look at the fruit
23:21 Outro

Filmed Homeacres by Edward Dowding on 5th July. Edited on the move. He is up for jobs as videographer.
https://edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio

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