I think it was @Lizzie27 who commented that I had a tidy garden when I planted it and posted a photo in May this year. I said that I would take a photo of said garden around about now so - yer tiz:
Have you picked any tomatoes yet @tui34? My neighbour picked her first ripe ones this morning. I've been picking mine for a while, different garden different growing conditions.
Thank you @coccinella but you wouldn't say that with all the weeds growing willy nilly. It's the grasses that are the hardest to pull out . They do retain the humidity!! Cough cough!!
Yes @floralies I have started picking the toms. Made my first batch of ratatouille early last last week - and I have even given some tomatoes away - some!! So things are coming along. My cucumbers are spinning out now although there are flowers on the plants but no fruit. Down to 2 cukkies - still I made cucumber soup and enjoyed that. Peppers and aubergines are in full production and I have had a bumper crop of basil this year. So my neighbours are basil happy at the moment.
The winter root vegetables have been sown and the spinach has appeared. I'll plant out my brassica seedlings next week as the nights are becoming a little longer.
Mid August already!! It seems that the summer has flown by!!
Very organised @tui34. Lots of tomatoes here now but only in the last couple of weeks. I've had enough basil to cook a few meals and make 2 batches of pesto. Must plant more next year.
Our one cucumber plant is a lemon cucumber so produces roundish, lemon-shaped, yellow cucumbers. Flavour's good tho.
OH has just lifted all our garlic but it's been so dry that it's come up as cloves rather than bulbs. I'll go and inspect later but will probably end up roasting it all and storing it in oil.
Made jam this morning with 1.5 kilos of apricots. It's a new tree that gave us 5 fruits last year. This year it'll be more like 10 kilos so we have happy neighbours now.
I have cavolo nero and PSB already planted and the CN is ready to start cropping but I'll wait till it's cooler now. Panzanella for dinner this evening and we'll have pointy cabbage with our roast chook tomorrow.
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Loads more than I have @tui34 . I grow mine in the polytunnel and have a row of normal basil along the tomato side and Thai basil on the chilli side. I use the flowers in salads as a means of encouraging more leaves. Very good in tonight's panzanella.
I shall sow more varieties next year as I do love it.
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Yes @floralies I have started picking the toms. Made my first batch of ratatouille early last last week - and I have even given some tomatoes away - some!! So things are coming along. My cucumbers are spinning out now although there are flowers on the plants but no fruit. Down to 2 cukkies - still I made cucumber soup and enjoyed that. Peppers and aubergines are in full production and I have had a bumper crop of basil this year. So my neighbours are basil happy at the moment.
The winter root vegetables have been sown and the spinach has appeared. I'll plant out my brassica seedlings next week as the nights are becoming a little longer.
Mid August already!! It seems that the summer has flown by!!
Our one cucumber plant is a lemon cucumber so produces roundish, lemon-shaped, yellow cucumbers. Flavour's good tho.
OH has just lifted all our garlic but it's been so dry that it's come up as cloves rather than bulbs. I'll go and inspect later but will probably end up roasting it all and storing it in oil.
Made jam this morning with 1.5 kilos of apricots. It's a new tree that gave us 5 fruits last year. This year it'll be more like 10 kilos so we have happy neighbours now.
I have cavolo nero and PSB already planted and the CN is ready to start cropping but I'll wait till it's cooler now. Panzanella for dinner this evening and we'll have pointy cabbage with our roast chook tomorrow.
Here we are: basils ago go. I have more planted in the tomato rows and they are more leafy and less flowers as these, which are in full sun.
I shall sow more varieties next year as I do love it.