Early Summer Bits and Bobs.

[oldherbaceous]

Afternoon Westi, don’t really have an answer to your questions but, I think blight is always triggered off by hot and humid conditions…..so i’m not sure watering the soil directly on a dry day, would cause too much of a problem, unless there were blighted potatoes left in the ground from the previous year.

[Westi]

Didn't do any growing things today as my kindly plot neighbour started clearing out the home garage for us & dismantled & took 2 sofa's down to the tip & other bits that would fit. What a difference in the garage already & still some things to get out which he is looking forward to as Mr can't use all the stuff he collected over the years now on a mobility scooter/wheelchair & I have told him to take what he wants. (Mr aware)! So far he has been gifted a tiller & a mower, need some work on them & he found a telescope & his son-in-law is mad on astronomy. I'm quite looking forward to him coming next as I'm also quite interested in what else Mr has bought & has hidden in there. I rarely entered the garage as way to many spiders, so a perfect hiding space for his sneaky purchases.

When garage is cleared it will be insulated, re-roofed & proper door sorted out for Mr to have a man cave so all his newly collected hobby stuff will be taken out there & I will have room in the lounge. Don't worry I won't permanently move him out there...

[robo]

I’ve never known a year like it my tomatoes are not growing seem to have come to a stop I planted 3 beds of spuds 40 sets in the first one only 1 has shown second around 50 sets not one has failed the third bed planted nine weeks after the first around 50 sets planted around a third shown through a bed of onions I planted all doing well garlic looks like it’s gone for a hike

[tigerburnie]

Lovely start too the day, been scrumping Strawberries in the greenhouse(is at actually scrumping if you own the plants though?), 10 degrees overnight in the greenhouse and first fruit setting on the tommies.

[Clive.]

I reckon it depends if you were picking for the house...how many for the dish / eaten at location, ratio

I went down the shed for some brushcutter petrol this morning and stopped by the raspberry rows for a minute on the way

Suitably fruit fortified I have at last got the long grass and bulb top remnant on my roadside frontage cut down this morning....no doubt this year that the bulb tops were well finished before the cut. Another overdue pending job...

C.

[oldherbaceous]

It is scrumping, Burnie, if you are not sharing them with your wife….

There’s always plenty to do, Clive.

[tigerburnie]

It is scrumping, Burnie, if you are not sharing them with your wife….

There’s always plenty to do, Clive.

errrr........busted, but I won't tell her if you don't.................lol

[Westi]

Continued with the last section of weeding which is a separate spot under the fruit trees. (If I had the right size of trees delivered as ordered I would not have to crawl under the trees to do this)! I just sow anything extra in this bed to just give them a chance but no real care or attention. Well the excess garlic was pants, have one elephant garlic looking perky from a bulb found in their last years bed....but the biggest surprise was the excess French brown onion seed plants I put in there are loving the neglect & weeds! They are huge already & green & lush & not ready to harvest. Some of these will be in the lottie show as proper huge!

No idea why these survived & thrived but wonder if under the trees they were protected by the trees being greedy & taking the extra moisture from the excess rain & also protected from the dips in temp?