Beautiful day here - no rain so far. Will have to water the baskets, tubs and planters tonight.
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oldherbaceous
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The complete opposite here, rain nearly all day.... but next week, now that's what we have been waiting for.
Hope Donedigging is stocking up with after-sun...
Hope Donedigging is stocking up with after-sun...
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Just been down to the greenhouse and found that blight has today set in to the Shirley Tomatoes. 
I have carefully removed the affected leaf sections in hope... Never had to do that before in all our years of Tomato growing in this greenhouse...built by Dad in 1969.
Potato tops in the garden here are already cut off with the fastest developing blight I have ever seen.
Clive.
I have carefully removed the affected leaf sections in hope... Never had to do that before in all our years of Tomato growing in this greenhouse...built by Dad in 1969.
Potato tops in the garden here are already cut off with the fastest developing blight I have ever seen.
Clive.
I had to do the same today Clive only mine were Ferline outside. Looks like they will go the same way as the potatoes although I have managed to save those. Not much else one can do about tomatoes is?
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Nature's Babe
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this year I erected a roof over the tomatoes to keep the rain off leaving sides open to allow free air circulation - so far touch wood they look really healthy, picking the greenhouse ones now outside fruits forming but still green - rain most days and very little sun here
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My Runner Beans have been sulking for several weeks and simply refusing to grow so in desperation I gave them a double strength of Chempak 8 and in just a week they have hit the 9ft mark!
I think that this is all my own fault because I should have dug in some compost when I prepared the bed in March. Today they have had a mulch of Comfrey Compost and if the weather improves as the weatherman says next week they will be smothered in flower. I can see many flower spikes that have formed so far on the lower parts of the plants and much lower than normal. They should be in full flow by September which is almost six weeks behind. What an awful year this has been!
The snag with September is that we normally get our first frosts around the same time. Thinking of a Polythene cloak for frost protection.
I made a cloak a few years ago and ended up picking beans until the first week of December and just so long as they do not have a direct frost on the plants they are surprisingly hardy.
JB.
I think that this is all my own fault because I should have dug in some compost when I prepared the bed in March. Today they have had a mulch of Comfrey Compost and if the weather improves as the weatherman says next week they will be smothered in flower. I can see many flower spikes that have formed so far on the lower parts of the plants and much lower than normal. They should be in full flow by September which is almost six weeks behind. What an awful year this has been!
The snag with September is that we normally get our first frosts around the same time. Thinking of a Polythene cloak for frost protection.
I made a cloak a few years ago and ended up picking beans until the first week of December and just so long as they do not have a direct frost on the plants they are surprisingly hardy.
JB.
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Good idea Johnboy with this awful weather we will have to think creatively!
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Rain to finish the day again today,
Picked some Early Onward Peas, Beetroot, Courgettes and Marrows. Then we set about the dead heading of more of the Pemberton Musk Roses and had earlier trimmed the Garden/Church boundary Loncicera hedge.
Not so many visitors today given a poor forecast, although whilst it did rain late afternoon we escaped the advertised thundery showers.
I enjoyed a long chat with a couple who had visited us from Suffolk as a direct result of reading last years KG article. Keen KG magazine readers, they reported that the garden was just as mentioned in the magazine... In fact their visit is exactly a year on from the week Steve visited.
I just looked back at the report myself this evening to find weed free dry gravel paths, sunshine and blue sky... There has been another change, whilst I was wearing the same shorts as in the article..I now sport a NT polo shirt.................
I did give the Forum a mention.
..so if this is read;..Good to chat,...and I hope the Morina Longifolia travels well.
Clive.
Picked some Early Onward Peas, Beetroot, Courgettes and Marrows. Then we set about the dead heading of more of the Pemberton Musk Roses and had earlier trimmed the Garden/Church boundary Loncicera hedge.
Not so many visitors today given a poor forecast, although whilst it did rain late afternoon we escaped the advertised thundery showers.
I enjoyed a long chat with a couple who had visited us from Suffolk as a direct result of reading last years KG article.
Keen KG magazine readers, they reported that the garden was just as mentioned in the magazine... In fact their visit is exactly a year on from the week Steve visited. I just looked back at the report myself this evening to find weed free dry gravel paths, sunshine and blue sky... There has been another change, whilst I was wearing the same shorts as in the article..I now sport a NT polo shirt.................
I did give the Forum a mention.
..so if this is read;..Good to chat,...and I hope the Morina Longifolia travels well. Clive.
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Good morning,
Oh, how I have missed you all....been on holiday for the last two weeks, just got back this morning
no Internet while I was away
Dear OH, I have needed more after sun than you can think of , to think yesterday I was led on a very sunny warm beach
Can't wait to get up to the allotment, bet it's a mess
Weather looking good for the weekend here
Glad to be back
Oh, how I have missed you all....been on holiday for the last two weeks, just got back this morning
no Internet while I was away
Dear OH, I have needed more after sun than you can think of , to think yesterday I was led on a very sunny warm beach
Can't wait to get up to the allotment, bet it's a mess
Weather looking good for the weekend here
Glad to be back
donedigging
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And we are mighty glad to have you back, Donedigging.
Hope your allotment hasn't got too overgrown, although everybodies seem to have gone this way a little this year, with the weather the way it has been.
Hope your allotment hasn't got too overgrown, although everybodies seem to have gone this way a little this year, with the weather the way it has been.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Overnight temperature in the polytunnel down to 6C
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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Dear Alan, so sorry to read you were not allowed back in the house again last night.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Help. Woke up this morning to find a big bronze thing rising over the horizon. Does one water it or what.
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I'm still hoping it's not a mirage, Shallot Man.
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[whispering very quietly] the sun is out and the pumpkins are flowering - mustn't scare either away 
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