Blooming hot again today.. yesterday's respite at 16C was a very workable day. I have continued setting out bedding and border gap filling all looking ok...plenty of water in planting hole and dry soil pulled back over to trap the moisture in below plant.
Swifts are at last screeching about over the town. Humming bird hawk moth is about along with many painted lady butterflies.
Another stormy build to the West this morning early but the hoped for shower on my clary seed went away in a few flicks of the wipers...but enough for a full and indeed double rainbow out west.
Strange tea tonight....Lincolnshire plum bread toasted and buttered...
C.
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Homemade pizzas for tea tonight 
I planted mixed short rows of climbing beans (cobra) and sweetcorn (can’t remember) . Only the beans have emerged. I’ll have to see if GC has any sc plants to complete the block. Not much space and they are supposed to combine well together.
I planted mixed short rows of climbing beans (cobra) and sweetcorn (can’t remember) . Only the beans have emerged. I’ll have to see if GC has any sc plants to complete the block. Not much space and they are supposed to combine well together.
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Still very hot here….we did get some rain yesterday, but with yesterday afternoon being so hot, it dry up so quickly…..looks like 2 more hot days, then we should get a break.
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I managed to get the runner frames up today & I did need to do quite a lot of watering to get them secured; with one or two extra little canes around some as kinda did overdo the watering, but probs already secured as still very hot. My 2 neighbours were having a bet on how long it will remain standing, but I think they were happy with how secure it was after inspection & tutting. After watering & some other little bits that was pretty much all I managed but at least they are up & I can plant & sow the rest when down on the weekend.
It's Squash & pumpkins turn to get sorted & planted as well on Saturday so it will soon look 'proper' & filled, but strangely still having lots of fails with lettuce sows. Crazy year, but rain on the horizon which might get things back to normal....fingers crossed!
It's Squash & pumpkins turn to get sorted & planted as well on Saturday so it will soon look 'proper' & filled, but strangely still having lots of fails with lettuce sows. Crazy year, but rain on the horizon which might get things back to normal....fingers crossed!
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The heat is certainly hanging around still especially in the tunnel, immediately walking in I started sweating. It said 40.1C at 7am so no real chores in there except watering. I thought it was a wee bit extreme for the little seedlings to be that hot so moved them outside on the staging so a wee breeze. Rain expected Monday so they should be OK. Rain's supposed to hanging around a few days but more drizzle than rain. Planted the runners & french beans in, got the pumpkin & squash in & all dog proofed. Courgettes also went in along with some french beans.
Once again my fat thumbs got in the way so I have to thin a couple of other beds & got a nice harvest of strawberries again. Still no shows on the lettuce beds so will move them elsewhere as well, wondering if bit to shallow rooted & a bit close to the trees so maybe.
Once again my fat thumbs got in the way so I have to thin a couple of other beds & got a nice harvest of strawberries again. Still no shows on the lettuce beds so will move them elsewhere as well, wondering if bit to shallow rooted & a bit close to the trees so maybe.
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The courgettes that I sowed some while back, came up ok and yesterday were planted in a small rectangle that I cleared by the little shed door...they've got a lot of growing to do but have gone in with plenty water underneath...and I see that there is some rain about this week.
Just now I have deployed the cotton twill dust sheet, with some compost over, on the opposite side of the path.. It actually went down very well, had to have a few slits to work round some young apple trees at which point I used cardboard under to bridge any gap...The apples were a nursery bed to test out tree grafting, but they seem to be staying put.!
Alongside on the west side i have planted 3 pumpkins that can thence roam their vine of the covered area.....
I did have the spade out.....to lift out the spent chard row and thence cultivate for the pumpkins to go in.
Otherwise, I am having kittens over internet and phone things...long story, but it stems back to the early internet days and thence to broadband when my mum used to have the phone side of the deal and I had the broadband deal. The two elements have wandered along sort of independently. It's knowing which way to jump....as I require a phone still as mobile signal here can be poor...
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Just now I have deployed the cotton twill dust sheet, with some compost over, on the opposite side of the path.. It actually went down very well, had to have a few slits to work round some young apple trees at which point I used cardboard under to bridge any gap...The apples were a nursery bed to test out tree grafting, but they seem to be staying put.!
Alongside on the west side i have planted 3 pumpkins that can thence roam their vine of the covered area.....
I did have the spade out.....to lift out the spent chard row and thence cultivate for the pumpkins to go in.
Otherwise, I am having kittens over internet and phone things...long story, but it stems back to the early internet days and thence to broadband when my mum used to have the phone side of the deal and I had the broadband deal. The two elements have wandered along sort of independently. It's knowing which way to jump....as I require a phone still as mobile signal here can be poor...
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Sounds like your garden is now fully productive again Clive, it must give you great pleasure seeing all the hard work you have put in, now coming back together again.
Spent a few hours just hoeing this morning…..tiny weeds seedlings that have just germinated, but might as well take them out at that stage, as it looks like we are in for some damp weather.
Spent a few hours just hoeing this morning…..tiny weeds seedlings that have just germinated, but might as well take them out at that stage, as it looks like we are in for some damp weather.
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I think it might be productive if the rain listed for tomorrow evening is a nice steady event. Otherwise it is very dusty...just been hoeing round with my Fiskars classic range sharp bladed draw hoe in a cloud of dust..likewise, catching some of the little weed seedlings.
I had a quick trip to the local independent nursery/garden centre after lunch and came back with two packs of mixed bedding salvias and a packet of eschscholzia 'orange king' that I have sprinkled and raked in at the edge of my new patch of clary....so that's ready for the drop of rain too.
The bedding salvia have gone in the tiny borders in the gateway....long time since anything was bedded in there....not quite up to my mums standard but better than lost as it was after the pink hyacinths one side and red species type tulip on the other had finished. It too is just dust over rock hard....so as ever put loads of water into the planting holes and squidged them down in and pulled dry soil around to give the plants an extra hint to put roots down
....meanwhile my online herbaceous top up order/retail therapy hit a snag on Friday...despite arranging via their portal for the parcel to be left in 'my safe place' as no signature reqd...it wasn't left as arranged...instead it is listed as 'no answer'?! and has had the weekend I suspect back at the depot.! as the second leave in safeplace arranged for Saturday, which was my response to the next date they offered me didn't happen either....bother.!
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I had a quick trip to the local independent nursery/garden centre after lunch and came back with two packs of mixed bedding salvias and a packet of eschscholzia 'orange king' that I have sprinkled and raked in at the edge of my new patch of clary....so that's ready for the drop of rain too.
The bedding salvia have gone in the tiny borders in the gateway....long time since anything was bedded in there....not quite up to my mums standard but better than lost as it was after the pink hyacinths one side and red species type tulip on the other had finished. It too is just dust over rock hard....so as ever put loads of water into the planting holes and squidged them down in and pulled dry soil around to give the plants an extra hint to put roots down
....meanwhile my online herbaceous top up order/retail therapy hit a snag on Friday...despite arranging via their portal for the parcel to be left in 'my safe place' as no signature reqd...it wasn't left as arranged...instead it is listed as 'no answer'?! and has had the weekend I suspect back at the depot.! as the second leave in safeplace arranged for Saturday, which was my response to the next date they offered me didn't happen either....bother.!
C.