Welcome to the forum @TPW ! May you stay long and prosper.
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My harvest is very minor compared to all of your collective bounty, but still .... I have been espalier-ing a Discovery apple tree for the last eight years or so and never really had much fruit from it. This was possibly a mix of an immature tree and daft, inaccurate prunning from me. But this year I got it right-er. I have had about 20 apples from it (two tiers), and about five fell, plus a small June Drop.
So... I'm pleased and feeling slightly less inept re fruit trees than usual.
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It's lovely to pick one and eat it while walking around the garden on the morning survey. I like my apples crisp and sharp, so should have picked them in July, really.
Thank you for the warm welcome!
It's great to hear you've have a successful fruit harvest, sounds like you've earned a well deserved home-made apple crumble!
Yes welcome @TPW There are some of us like you who have a small growing space, who enjoy the fruits of our labour ( pun intended 😆) Nothing tastes as nice as home grown, from picking to plate in minutes. 😋
French beans are doing really well, another lot ready for the freezer, runner beans are well in flower but always later here. They love the heat though. Next year I will grow more of the climbing French Beans and less runners, I like the French frozen but not the runners. I have watered these beans only twice since planting, they’ve rooted deep. Never feed them just well prepared ground.
tomatoes are good, cucumbers are slowing down, outside cucumbers practically non existent !
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I have been picking runner beans and cucumbers regularly. Chillies, though loving the heatwave are not much productive this season. Here are the first 2 chillies that have started ripening:
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
First decent picking of runner beans since the last heatwave when all the flowers dropped, hoping for a decent crop now as the plants are hanging in beans 😊. Could be our best ever year for courgettes, they're loving the hot weather, but turn your back for 2 mins and they turn into small marrows 🤣
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It's great to hear you've have a successful fruit harvest, sounds like you've earned a well deserved home-made apple crumble!
There are some of us like you who have a small growing space, who enjoy the fruits of our labour ( pun intended 😆) Nothing tastes as nice as home grown, from picking to plate in minutes. 😋
Next year I will grow more of the climbing French Beans and less runners, I like the French frozen but not the runners.
I have watered these beans only twice since planting, they’ve rooted deep. Never feed them just well prepared ground.
tomatoes are good, cucumbers are slowing down, outside cucumbers practically non existent !
Hops looks okay so far