Everyone is watering. i have done two hours this morning and that is just the front garden. i brought a fern in to soak in the sink and a frog came in uninvited. it scurried under the washing machine and no doubt will scurry out again when i switch it on. All my trial tomatoes in the drive have been watered and the ripe ones picked and some munched as i worked. I have some trusses with twenty tomatoes on one of the varieties not on the market yet. one was ripe so I ate it for flavour test. it is delicious. We have another week's drought to contend with so watering will be very important. I do hope you use organic spray,flumpy1 as our food supply depends on the insects. Every one is precious. Even if a few leaves get nibbled you will still get flowers. just pick off the unsightly ones.
We had too in Bristol two days before but the things in pots , especially my 100 tomato pots need watering regardless of that. It did my new plantation of trees and shrubs the world of good. i hope nothing was damaged, Buey- Lizzie. Today at 1.45 on radio 4 starts a 25 part series on botany which promises to be right up to date from the very beginnings and fascinating to anyone who loves plants.
the water butt is half full and I had buckets under the run-off from the shed roof, so the pots are watered, lawn is growing and the cabbage white has found my sprouts which I have started off pre planting in the allotment. So I'm researching companion planting for vegetables. Interesting, lots of good advice on this forum.
I will be listening to radio 4 too, feet up time for me in this heat.
The radio program lived up to my expectations. I have been to Kew many times and did a course on Evolution of plants at Bristol University a few years back so it is right up my street. I found quite a lot of rainwater in the butt on the corner of the caravan.which came on useful. my aoniums, all four of them are now in place in the front garden and turning heads!
Watered everything when I came in from work today-water butts definitely full after all the storms on Saturday. Made Rhubarb and Ginger Jam with my home grown Rhubarb, which is going bonkers this year! Picking Redcurrants for Jelly to keep for Christmas. Had my first Carrots of the season-love this time of year when we start to get tasting stuff! What is your favourite food that you have grown so far this year Marion?
I had my first "sunrise tomato" with my supper tonight - a big yellow tomato, think "Sungold" writ large it was scrumptious but "Sweetheart" strawberries are too. I did enjoy having loads of baby broad beans to eat in their pods for the first month!
Another very warm day but thunderstorms forecast for Thursday so will just water pots that are desperate till then. The sweet corn is still standing up proudly and the new broad beans. Have got nearly all the bedding plants out in the front garden or their pots now. The plums are beginning to colour and the Conference pears are elongating. No doubt the storms will bring down a few more apples but I have a glut again. If the sun is not too bright may take some pictures.
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Everyone is watering. i have done two hours this morning and that is just the front garden. i brought a fern in to soak in the sink and a frog came in uninvited. it scurried under the washing machine and no doubt will scurry out again when i switch it on. All my trial tomatoes in the drive have been watered and the ripe ones picked and some munched as i worked. I have some trusses with twenty tomatoes on one of the varieties not on the market yet. one was ripe so I ate it for flavour test. it is delicious. We have another week's drought to contend with so watering will be very important. I do hope you use organic spray,flumpy1 as our food supply depends on the insects. Every one is precious. Even if a few leaves get nibbled you will still get flowers. just pick off the unsightly ones.
I'm not watering! We had huge storms yesterday.
We had too in Bristol two days before but the things in pots , especially my 100 tomato pots need watering regardless of that. It did my new plantation of trees and shrubs the world of good. i hope nothing was damaged, Buey- Lizzie. Today at 1.45 on radio 4 starts a 25 part series on botany which promises to be right up to date from the very beginnings and fascinating to anyone who loves plants.
I will be listening to radio 4 too, feet up time for me in this heat.
The radio program lived up to my expectations. I have been to Kew many times and did a course on Evolution of plants at Bristol University a few years back so it is right up my street. I found quite a lot of rainwater in the butt on the corner of the caravan.which came on useful. my aoniums, all four of them are now in place in the front garden and turning heads!
Watered everything when I came in from work today-water butts definitely full after all the storms on Saturday. Made Rhubarb and Ginger Jam with my home grown Rhubarb, which is going bonkers this year! Picking Redcurrants for Jelly to keep for Christmas. Had my first Carrots of the season-love this time of year when we start to get tasting stuff! What is your favourite food that you have grown so far this year Marion?
I had my first "sunrise tomato" with my supper tonight - a big yellow tomato, think "Sungold" writ large it was scrumptious but "Sweetheart" strawberries are too. I did enjoy having loads of baby broad beans to eat in their pods for the first month!
Another very warm day but thunderstorms forecast for Thursday so will just water pots that are desperate till then. The sweet corn is still standing up proudly and the new broad beans. Have got nearly all the bedding plants out in the front garden or their pots now. The plums are beginning to colour and the Conference pears are elongating. No doubt the storms will bring down a few more apples but I have a glut again. If the sun is not too bright may take some pictures.
The variety in my tomatoes is very picturesque! More pics from my jubilee garden.
The tomatoes look good!! I want to grow some black ones next year. I have plum ones at the moment, and my first one is just starting to turn red.