@fidgetbones if you were MY neighbour, I might consider you a little odd. But only a little - and that's from someone who apologises every time I hear that "crunch" underfoot!!😁
Cleared the other side of the path. Cut back some of the very very long grass in the orchard. Picked some more broad beans, peas and dwarf beans....getting soaked when the heavens opened.
Cut some of my grass and ploughed the rest!!! It's the first time I've been able to get the mower onto it in nearly three weeks and I had to be careful about bogging in! It's a right looking sight but if we have any dry spell at all at least it'll dry a bit quicker. That's the plan anyway.
I sallied forth and picked my peas, all 20 odd. Ate the peas raw, so delicious and sweet and will blanch the pods to eat with a salad today. Watered the tomatoes, again. I fought my way into the remains of the fruit cage, getting tangled in 6ft bracken, netting and rotten posts to find very sparse crops of blackcurrants and red currants. I ended up with about half a kilo of mixed berries. I could see from the empty strigs I had lost most of the crop. It is unbelievable that I have not given the fruit bushes a drop of water but unearthed the blueberry bushes to find plenty of new growth and quite a few big fat green blueberries. I will have to keep an eye on them to try and harvest them before the birds find them. I am going to make a fruit cordial as I have plenty of jam in the larder. I am tempted to buy some wonky strawberries and some raspberries to add to the cordial recipe to make it a mixed fruit flavour. I am not having to take steroids Lizzie, mainly BP lowering drugs and blood thinning drugs which means I am coping with light headedness when I move around, as well as sudden bouts of breathlessness. Very challenging. Friends and family have been really kind and keep telling me to ask for help but there is never anyone around just when I need a hand.
The storm is wending its way over us right now. As dark as night, rain hammering down and the wind beginning to wind itself up. It is going to be a duvet day for me. Plenty of jobs to do indoors as well as Wimbledon to watch. Got up late. Still in my PJs. What the heck! Relax. Go with the flow and enjoy. Enjoy your day.
O heck @AnnaB, that means the storm's likely to hit us in about four hours, it's already raining hard here so no gardening today. I'm still in my PJ's as well. My son and his tall 15 yr old son (going to be so useful!) are coming to stay in a fortnight and I'm compiling a list of the heavier garden jobs we can't do any more - I've asked them to bring old gardening clothes!
Woke to rain this morning. Hubby still went and watered/fed the greenhouse ( using from the full butts) and as the weather says tomorrow will be our bad day for wind/rain won't get much done this weekend! Maybe a good time to do some baking or make Raspberry cordial. 🤔 I suppose there is always housework. 😖
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Watered the tomatoes, again.
I fought my way into the remains of the fruit cage, getting tangled in 6ft bracken, netting and rotten posts to find very sparse crops of blackcurrants and red currants. I ended up with about half a kilo of mixed berries. I could see from the empty strigs I had lost most of the crop. It is unbelievable that I have not given the fruit bushes a drop of water but unearthed the blueberry bushes to find plenty of new growth and quite a few big fat green blueberries. I will have to keep an eye on them to try and harvest them before the birds find them.
I am going to make a fruit cordial as I have plenty of jam in the larder. I am tempted to buy some wonky strawberries and some raspberries to add to the cordial recipe to make it a mixed fruit flavour.
I am not having to take steroids Lizzie, mainly BP lowering drugs and blood thinning drugs which means I am coping with light headedness when I move around, as well as sudden bouts of breathlessness. Very challenging.
Friends and family have been really kind and keep telling me to ask for help but there is never anyone around just when I need a hand.
The storm is wending its way over us right now. As dark as night, rain hammering down and the wind beginning to wind itself up.
It is going to be a duvet day for me. Plenty of jobs to do indoors as well as Wimbledon to watch.
Got up late. Still in my PJs. What the heck! Relax. Go with the flow and enjoy.
Enjoy your day.
Maybe a good time to do some baking or make Raspberry cordial. 🤔 I suppose there is always housework. 😖
Toms are coming on nicely.