Weedy paths and poly tunnel

The paths between beds have been growing to the extent that the vegetation is starting to interfere with growth of the crop. In the image below the weeds and volunteer green manure plants are falling onto the bed and swamping the crop. Leeks are very sensitive to low light levels and without action there would be a considerable drop in the harvest.




We removed all the mesh covers and used a brush cutter to cut back the paths and cleared debris from the crop by hand. The result can be seen below. I am happy with the development of the leek crop this year, so far.



The polytunnel crops are very slow this year the Aubergene plants are looking reasonably healthy but are over 4 weeks behind in expected development. This puts future plantings of some of these half hardy crops in doubt for future years, we shall see what transpires during the rest of the season.