Kitchen Garden Forum

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.

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.

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.

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!

I forgot to say... I saw two wheat fields this afternoon that were coming in to ear..


C.