I picked another half pound of runner beans this morning after denuding the plants yesterday so looks like it is daily pickings from now till the frost. Supper tonight will be sauteed potatoes, runner beans, tomato omelette and only the eggs will be shop bought. When the children were young we had chickens and I think the fecundity of the soil in my garden is partly due to their droppings.
That photo looks really good, it's like a picture you would see in a magazine , I was only saying to my husband the other day, that you must never have to shop for veg,fruit or salad, when we get our second house I will make sure it has a bigger garden And live off our own food, at least you know nothing as been sprayed on it, they weather is changing again, I kept getting chased by bees today when I was trying to cut my evergreen, so it's only half cut ha, got my weeding done and my big chrysanthemums planted, have you got rain in the south yet?
Fairly dry eoday in Bristol - just a few drizzly episodes. Forecast is for summer to return next week. My roof repairs are scheduled for Sept.2nd so i hope so. My friend calls my photographic attempts and my writings my gardening journalism. Sometimes I get lucky with them and win garden vouchers from gardening magazines.
Garden wet again this morning but bright now and forecast is for the rain to reach Bristol in te afternoon so I will try and get as much done as i can in the morning. Some of the tomato plants are finished cropping so i will empty their pots two each day now till i have worked my way through the hundred or so. I am eating so many cherry tomatoes I fancy my oink cheeks are beginning to resemble them.
Bucketed down just after noon so think I will not risk getting soaked up the garden but go and do some long needed shopping. I did get two tomato plants out of their pots and squeezed into the green wheeliebin which gets emptied tomorrow morning. It is going to be windy tonight so that is four less pots to right tomorrow morning. I will pick in all my ripe peppers as they might get blown off and scattered round the drive.for the foxes to pinch.
Lovely chrysanthemums, Flumpy. Your border is looking good. We had some more rain in the afternoon but it looks like summer is on its way back next week.
Thanks Marion, yes I've heard it's nice next week, just when I'm back in work too , but my brother is off next week so I hope he enjoys it, think he's going to Scarborough for a few days, we have relatives there too, you sound like you've been very busy harvesting mmm I like peppers especially with a nice juicy steak .
I checked on my tomatoes and I counted twelve, they are small and green at the moment, I also checked on my curly Kale, the ones on the top shelf i'm a little worried about as some of the bottom leaves have gone yellow, do they need watering more??
Flumy 1, if I were you I would take off the yellow leaves and replant my kale plants in the flower border. They would then get some food when you fed the flowers and water if need be. You should be eating it now. Many big estates do this and it does look good with the dark green leaves. If not new compost in a bigger pot might do it for you. I have seen good kale grown in a big planter.
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I picked another half pound of runner beans this morning after denuding the plants yesterday so looks like it is daily pickings from now till the frost. Supper tonight will be sauteed potatoes, runner beans, tomato omelette and only the eggs will be shop bought. When the children were young we had chickens and I think the fecundity of the soil in my garden is partly due to their droppings.
This is what I collected from a third of one of my eight raised beds in ten minutes of harvesting.
That photo looks really good, it's like a picture you would see in a magazine
, I was only saying to my husband the other day, that you must never have to shop for veg,fruit or salad, when we get our second house I will make sure it has a bigger garden 
And live off our own food, at least you know nothing as been sprayed on it, they weather is changing again, I kept getting chased by bees today when I was trying to cut my evergreen, so it's only half cut ha, got my weeding done and my big chrysanthemums planted, have you got rain in the south yet?
Fairly dry eoday in Bristol - just a few drizzly episodes. Forecast is for summer to return next week. My roof repairs are scheduled for Sept.2nd so i hope so. My friend calls my photographic attempts and my writings my gardening journalism. Sometimes I get lucky with them and win garden vouchers from gardening magazines.
Garden wet again this morning but bright now and forecast is for the rain to reach Bristol in te afternoon so I will try and get as much done as i can in the morning. Some of the tomato plants are finished cropping so i will empty their pots two each day now till i have worked my way through the hundred or so. I am eating so many cherry tomatoes I fancy my oink cheeks are beginning to resemble them.
Bucketed down just after noon so think I will not risk getting soaked up the garden but go and do some long needed shopping. I did get two tomato plants out of their pots and squeezed into the green wheeliebin which gets emptied tomorrow morning. It is going to be windy tonight so that is four less pots to right tomorrow morning. I will pick in all my ripe peppers as they might get blown off and scattered round the drive.for the foxes to pinch.
The weather finally cheered up in the afternoon
Lovely chrysanthemums, Flumpy. Your border is looking good. We had some more rain in the afternoon but it looks like summer is on its way back next week.
Thanks Marion, yes I've heard it's nice next week, just when I'm back in work too
, but my brother is off next week so I hope he enjoys it, think he's going to Scarborough for a few days, we have relatives there too, you sound like you've been very busy harvesting mmm I like peppers especially with a nice juicy steak 
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I checked on my tomatoes and I counted twelve, they are small and green at the moment, I also checked on my curly Kale, the ones on the top shelf i'm a little worried about as some of the bottom leaves have gone yellow, do they need watering more??
Flumy 1, if I were you I would take off the yellow leaves and replant my kale plants in the flower border. They would then get some food when you fed the flowers and water if need be. You should be eating it now. Many big estates do this and it does look good with the dark green leaves. If not new compost in a bigger pot might do it for you. I have seen good kale grown in a big planter.