Kitchen Garden Forum

lizzie wrote:Was at the lottie again and got loads more done.

Sounds like you should be back in the kitchen again Lizzie, sorting out that bread

Oooohhhh Colin...you cheeky bugger

I've just put 3 loaves in the oven and they are looking magnificent after everybodies great advice.......might post a picture up later if i can remember how the hell you do it.

Back off to the lottie in about 20 mins once the bread comes out.....hoping to get the rest of the garden planted up and get some more peas and beans sown.

Dear Lizzie, you are putting us all to shame.

Oh Herby...i didn't think that the word shame ever entered your vocabulary

Dear Lizzie, I must admit, i did have to get the dictionary out to check the spelling of shame.

Went away for 5 days last week and returned to a jungle of weeds so am desperately still trying to pull them out after a day of non-stop rain yesterday.

Managed to get the grass cut today, as it had finally dried out enough
Potted up some Blueberries into large tubs. Thinned out some swedes. Picked a few strawberries ( and ate them ). Then went for a long walk along the beach. Quite a nice day all round really.

Cheers, PJ.

It's another beautiful day here in my small tiny hamlet.....so i'm off to the lottie in an hour to get some more done.

Got to get Grocks flowers planted up for her house and choose which ones i'll be using at home.

Also got to get some parsnips in the ground and weed the bottom 1/4 of the plot then i'm sorted...happy days. Just got to decide what i'm putting there now. Also got to gt some liquid Derris on the fruit trees to stop the little buggers burrowing in.

I love this allotment thing...great stuff with loads to nibble on too

Dear Lizzie, you just can't beat something to nibble on, my favorite has to be peas.

What do you think i was on about, bad girl.

Lovely day here, mostly sunny and almost still (though still no rain, I'm afraid). Spent the morning carting water in 5-gallon drums to water everything on the allotment, particularly the peas (don't want to get powdery mildew!!), beans and brassicas. Then lots of hoeing and weeding and hubby is still busy now pilingup fresh manure which a nearby farmer has dropped over the fence to let it "stew" until the winter digging.

Highlight of the day: ate our first new potatoes (Ulster Sceptre) but weren't too struck on the taste.

Another beautiful day here too. Ended with taking the dog for a walk. Crossing a field of sheep I heard this strange noise. Turned out to be a lamb bleating with a feed bucket stuck on its head, hope you can imagine the sound. Tied the dog to a wall and walked up behind the lamb (a skill you acquire when you live in the country) and managed to flick the bucket off. It ran off and found its mother quite a way away so I think it must have been stuck like that for a while.
End of a busy week planting out lots of soft vegetables; Runner Beans, French Beans (Cobra), Tomatoes, Tomatillos, Sweet Corn, Cucumbers, Gourds, Squashes, Courgettes and Pumpkins. Now I can get some Peppers and Aubergines out of pots and into the greenhouse border where all these were in pots then just have to decide what to do with Melons and Butternuts.
Anybody else get afflicted by midges, they've been terrible here this week?

Went to Trooping the Colour [Colonel's Review]on Sat. Superb, best one I have watched for some 12 years or more, should you get the chance to see it live, GO

Geoff, how are you doing for rain? One of my daughters, Harrogate-way, therefore further east, had torrential downpours on Friday, but nothing but a few drops here.

Hi Monika We had a very light shower on Friday night. We have had nothing since. This afternoon I found we had blackfly on the broadbeans. It is such a shame because these broad beans have really struggled to grow as the first two sets I started were taken by mice and I thin I must have gone through three packets of sees to get what is in the ground now. I did not nip the tops off so maybe I should have done it sooner.

Our cabbage also have cabbage root fly so not much going for us at the moment.

My OH has done a brilliant job of building me another small bed in our first (top allottment) so tomorrow I will be planting that up with various stuff. I am now off to water my back garden before we eat our evening meal.

Sorry but just thinking about it and how it can rain close by but not in our valley. My sister who lives in Zambia used to say that the next farm might get rain, (four or five kilometers away) or even a thunderstorm but they would get nothing. It seems that maybe our weather is going in that direction.