Rain if only! the ground here is as dry as a very dry thing, we need a weeks rain to soften it up for digging but not two weeks rain. I'm glad the garden is slowing down now, the courgettes are about finished, tomatoes are ripening the last few pickings, butternut squash are ripening but look too small to be any good, apples are still ripening, everything else is harvested apart from a bit of winter veg.
Just been to plot for a couple hours , got 4 bags of manure for a friends garden picked a load of out door toms and handful of raspberries, tidied up hollyhocks, so another wheelbarrow load of stuff for burning
You can do it either way. You can have an overall theme for the entire
garden. or you can have nooks and crannies of style. In the
latter instance each ornament should have it's own space and not be
cluttered together with non-like ornaments. That way it looks and
feels like you are going on a journey (as in life) as you walk through
the garden.
Hello all missed you lot been so busy have not had much time - just finished reading eveything, what a lot done
I have done lots up allotment building of chicken coop and run - Welfare came out looked at it all just to add netting to run roof area but all good, harvested a nice cauliflower the other day few cucamelons, courgettes have got going now so will have to harvest some
Mr. Vine Eye Great compost bins really good size I use one to store horse manure in
O/H went to plot yesterday and Harvested our first cucamelon , they where ok Picked the rest of the French beans , as every courgettes , see is going to make a courgette cake today , plus some more sweet corn 🌽, tastes much better than shop bought I’m helping put top soil on village bowling green again this afternoon
Rain if only! the ground here is as dry as a very dry thing, we need a weeks rain to soften it up for digging but not two weeks rain.
Oh how true! we need proper rain too. I have late salad & beans that I am having to water every other day at least just to try to keep them going. I wanted to put down green manure after lifting the spuds but it's a waste of time without rain.
I have my chickens 4 of them all in the house and coop they have been out in the run, got them yesterday so was up early to let them out watching which one came out of house area first
Was windy weather today so made it feel colder than yesterday
some of my newer broad beans have flowers on and some of the dwarf runner beans have too and started making little beans
Going to be having another open day for the station garden on the 28th so will be busy tuesday tidying up - good news we have managed to get a community grant fund for a shed as well as dontations raised from open days
Harvested a melon from the cold frame on Friday very sweet and juicy, there are two more ripening I don't know if they will ripen enough as the weather is turning cooler here. Raspberries still cropping but runner beans seem to have stopped I think because of the dry weather, rain is forecast but there aren't any new flowers on the plant so I think that it is finished.
@barry island We have the same problem the dry weather means a lot of things have just suddenly stopped, beans in particular. Harvested the last cauli the other day they have been good though up to 2kg each!
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picked a load of out door toms and handful of raspberries, tidied up hollyhocks, so another wheelbarrow load of stuff for burning
Picked the rest of the French beans , as every courgettes , see is going to make a courgette cake today , plus some more sweet corn 🌽, tastes much better than shop bought
I’m helping put top soil on village bowling green again this afternoon