Plans for next year
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I'm already thinking about some radical changes for next year.   I think this is an annual event, which gets thoroughly forgotten in the first flush of excitement of sowing in the spring.
I hope to reduce the work involved in the garden. P isn’t as able as he once was and I'm past my sell by date  Smile  I'm planning to drastically reduce the number of tomatoes I grow. Reduce the toms in both the gh and outside. Although i love growing them the freezer isn’t big enough, plus the amount of 'from scratch' cooking I do is getting less and less. I also don't think that I need 6+ cucumber plants, that's just ridiculous for two of us. Same goes for 10+ courgettes/squash.  The 4 or 5 courgettes sown in July after my faux pas with the sprayer, are producing more than enough fruit for two of us.

This year I grew mainly DFB with just one row (instead of 3 or 4 rows) of CFB, which weren't that successful as it turned out.  I put up a 15ft long 'A' frame with MT one side and CFB the other. The principle worked reasonably well, the baking weather at the wrong time did not. The DFB were fine early on but then succumbedto drought or summat so weren't keen on producing a second flush.  

I say it every year but next season I'm going to try and concentrate on successional growing and sow courgettes and beans in two batches. If I reduce the gh plants I may be able to keep a potting station active all year in the gh. Usually I fill up the gh's then haven't got a flat space to sow, prick out etc. 

The upshot is, fewer cucs, toms, beans and courgettes. I wonder how much of this I will achieve.  Rolleyes
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Plans for next year - by JJB - 28-08-2024, 03:06 PM
RE: Plans for next year - by Veggie - 28-08-2024, 03:58 PM
RE: Plans for next year - by JJB - 28-08-2024, 04:51 PM
RE: Plans for next year - by Small chilli - 28-08-2024, 06:57 PM
RE: Plans for next year - by toomanytommytoes - 31-08-2024, 11:37 AM



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