{"id":26269,"date":"2020-08-03T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26269"},"modified":"2020-08-03T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:46:50","slug":"towards-a-record-early-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26269","title":{"rendered":"Towards a record early harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This summer we&#8217;ve experienced a big swing in temperatures from one month to the next&#8230;from a record cold May to a record warm June followed by most of July being also record cold. The warmth in June straight after planting my runner beans on 11th (later than normal) resulted in quick growth and by the end of July the earliest variety, two-toned Painted Lady was already in flower, a month earlier than a normal year (if there is such a thing as normal anymore)&#8230;.so maybe we are heading for a record crop, where runner beans are marginal and almost never give a good sized crop:<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26271 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970881.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970881.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970881-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970881-769x1024.jpg 769w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970881-768x1022.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970881-640x852.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My courgettes (zucchini), planted out on 14th June on my shady composting area (no more than 2 hours of direct sunshine) also started cropping very early at the end of August:<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26270 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970787.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970787.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970787-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970787-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970787-640x481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>Finally, I was surprised when folk told me last year that their Worcesterberries (a selection of <em>Ribes divaricatum<\/em>) ripened in July.\u00a0 I&#8217;m usually eating mine from the middle of September to the first frosts late in October, but they are also turning colour already:<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26272 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970942.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970942-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970942-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/P1970942-640x481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer we&#8217;ve experienced a big swing in temperatures from one month to the next&#8230;from a record cold May to a record warm June followed by most of 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