I'm not fussy @Nanny Beach - I'll scoff that beauty whichever way round you do it
Love how quickly these dwarf French beans germinate and grow. 14 of 15 seeds broke the surface after 6-9 days. This is day 10. Bit narked at seed number 15 though - what's your problem, fella!? Â
Hello everybody, Managed to get down and back to the local shops in the dry this morning, quite pleasant. Back home I raced round the garden battening down the hatches  in case the threatened high winds materialise. It's windy with intermittant rain but not so bad at the moment. No hail or lightening here so far @Pat E. Dinner sounds good @Dovefromabove, we're also having chicken but a roast, not poached. I've also picked some rhubarb so will do a crumble later.
Our blackbirds take great delight in kicking bark mulch over the lawn @BusyLizzie. I recently tried installing a short, dwarf decorative metal fence faced with mesh, in the hope that would stop them but oh no, it comes sailing straight over the top.
I bought a packet of sequestered iron sachets yesterday as my potted olive bush looks rather sickly with yellowish leaves. Although it's had both seaweed drenches and slow release fertiliser at different times since Xmas, it hasn't picked up. Is the iron treatment okay for olives? Doesn't mention them on the box.
Try it and see then try Epsom salts - 15ml in 5L of water then used as a foliar spray and/or watered round the roots. It provides magnesium. Deficiency also makes plants chlorotic, not just lack of iron but but take up of both is affected by alkalinity in the soil or water.
Thanks @Obelixx. The sachets also contain magnesium so I'm hoping that's enough. It was potted in J.I.No.3 and I use mainly rainwater on my pots. I'll try it anyway and then try the Epsom Salts as suggested. Wish I'd bought both while I was looking at them in the GC yesterday but at least it will give me an excuse to go to another one.
I love a good thunderstorm @Pat E - the more dramatic the better! Hope it doesn't ignite any bush fires though. Your scones (pron. skonns) look delish @Nanny Beach and, like you I'm a jam first kinda gal. Your dinner sounds very healthy @Dovefromabove - my husband doesn't drink and I drink only rarely these days so have a glass for me. @Biglad - I'm planning on sowing my climbing French beans direct at the base of the canes of the frame I have built - but not for a good couple of weeks yet. Just no room indoors or my zip-up greenhouse or makeshift coldframe!  All my babies are still inside today - just too horrible out there. I hate the wind. But now have to go and pick some sprouting brocc. and kale for supper. Pork in marmalade gravy with new (local) potatoes.
Those French beans will be going outside at the end of the week @didyw, when the forecast is for improved weather. With hindsight I should've sown direct as well. They are fun to watch germinate on the windowsill, though Â
I was late sowing everything last year and may have gone too early this It's all a learning curve!
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Love how quickly these dwarf French beans germinate and grow. 14 of 15 seeds broke the surface after 6-9 days. This is day 10. Bit narked at seed number 15 though - what's your problem, fella!?
No hail or lightening here so far @Pat E.
Dinner sounds good @Dovefromabove, we're also having chicken but a roast, not poached. I've also picked some rhubarb so will do a crumble later.
Our blackbirds take great delight in kicking bark mulch over the lawn @BusyLizzie. I recently tried installing a short, dwarf decorative metal fence faced with mesh, in the hope that would stop them but oh no, it comes sailing straight over the top.
I bought a packet of sequestered iron sachets yesterday as my potted olive bush looks rather sickly with yellowish leaves. Although it's had both seaweed drenches and slow release fertiliser at different times since Xmas, it hasn't picked up. Is the iron treatment okay for olives? Doesn't mention them on the box.
All my babies are still inside today - just too horrible out there. I hate the wind. But now have to go and pick some sprouting brocc. and kale for supper. Pork in marmalade gravy with new (local) potatoes.
I was late sowing everything last year and may have gone too early this