Tomatoes are coming on a treat, courgettes, pumpkins, peppers and chillis just planted, enjoying new potatoes and early cabbage, climbing beans going up the poles, weather dry enough to cut grass and tame the wilderness.... Just hope it does turn out to be a barbecue summer for once.
Another busy morning on the plot in prospect. First job is to connect the three hoses together and fill up all the water butts and the IBC container yet again
Cheers PJ.
I'm just off down the greenhouse. I won't be long...........
All four of our water butts are empty, I think yes a barbeque summer is quite likely. Picking peas carrots, turnips, broad beans, chard, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, wet garlic, lettuce, outdoor cuc's forming, etc At this rate with temperatures climbing it will be a race to pick the cane fruit before they cook on the vine! Grapes on the vine are the size of peas now, the earliest tomatoes, jostaberries and blackcurrants are beginning to ripen. Melons and peppers, kiwi and aubergines are flowering, my sprouts are about three ft high, so should be ready early, perhaps I should plant some more if I want some at christmas. One bonus is after the ducks predation and all this sunshine slugs and snails are rare now, hooray!
Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. By Thomas Huxley http://www.wildrye.info/reserve/
Hi OH, I thank you for your welcome back. That is the first holiday I have had since 1995 and was very badly needed. There was a slight blip in the middle but apart from that I have had what amounts to a rest in my terms. Have sourced some rather super unusual trees through Vilmorin Nurseries for delivery in the Autumn and the deal is about a quarter of the cost it would have been in UK and because the size of the order, free delivery from France. To work! JB.
