So, my time has been taken up a bit.The garden is full!!! . . . of produce and weeds, needless to say, produce is not so good, but I understand its been a bad year in general?
However I have had some success despite my lack of attention, the six new Raspberry canes (Joan-J) are romping away, as is the single new Blackberry (Navaho), watch these in anticipation. The Rhubarb I planted in 2010 has finally found it feet, thought it was a failure and nearly dug it up in the spring, but as time overtook me, it was left, I'm glad I did. Planted self-blanching celery, that too is doing OK with no attention.
No traditional British runner bean this year, instead I planted Cobra french climbing bean. As an experiment, I have tried 'Algarve' its a flat, wavy edged stingless pod. We sampled them last week, cooked in the microwave, a way we are preferring to retain flavour of our veg., highly recommended, also nice raw, straight from the plant as I pick! . . . Very sweet, crunchy and flavoursom.
Courgettes are doing well again, grown on a mound of rotting turf and semi composted waste.
A couple of Courgette samples, or is that three? . . . I haven’t looked at them for over a week! the big one is 12" long, ear marked for stuffing with mince, onions and mushroom in the week. The Siamese courgette was a surprise
All the rest of the garden produce is compromised by weed and/or neglect, it has two chances?
Hazel is well on the road to recovery but will never be 100% . . . she is resilient. We now have a couple of mobility scooters in the shed, terrorise the high street 'Boadicea' style . . .
yes, my knee and feet are now giving up on me . . . ? makes gardening difficult to . . . ?Looking forward to this week, with Hazel improving and the weather looking fine, I might be able to tidy things up in the garden a bit?
CJS
