This garden bed is in a protected corner of our garden 4, facing south with willow trees in the back to catch and hold the warmth of the sun. Therefore it is ideal for growing cucumbers and chilli’s, but first we need to weed, again (as we had to in previous years).
As you can see in the picture the “weeds” where hip high for our children, who where very helpful in pulling out the “weeds” and looking for little treasures (like the self seeded sunflower).
They had a lot of fun, especially after discovering a self seeded nasturtium.
After spreading manure and rotary tilling this garden bed in early spring, the Humphrey has spread like creasy, so we have an entire row of this growing here now. We worked our way around this with the weeding and found a lot of potatoes growing around the Humphrey. Obviously we left them for harvesting later.
This weeding was done beginning of June and about 2 weeks later we put the cucumbers in.
Next to the cucumbers we planted a block of chilli’s we had extra from the greenhouse and after weeding frequently we started the potato harvest beginning of August.
We also harvested some nice pickling cucumbers and lots of big cucumbers for fresh eating. The big fresh eating cucumbers produced very well, better then in the greenhouse. The pickling cucumbers did not produce so much in this garden bed. They did better in the greenhouse.
The leaves of the cucumber plants started turning yellow and then brown and dry out completely. After reading about cucumbers in the internet I started cutting of all of the leaves that where not beautiful green.
This was middle of August and there was not much left of the plants.
Unfortunately, in the second half of August, the nice wetter turned colder and very wet and the cucumbers started rotting on its vines.
September we where able to harvest some nice Chilli’s. Although they did not have enough time to turn red, but that’s ok.
Whit this the garden season came to an end here.
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