In Bristol when we have wet and warm summers the potatoes and tomatoes outside get decimated by blight. I do not like the taste of the blight resistant potatoes so concentrate on earlies and moving the crop about but the bungalow tends to shelter tomato plants lined along the drive from the fungus which comes in the rain and it never affects any under glass. We do have outdoor ones in the trial as well as three types to grow under glass. I have a beautiful hebe in my woodland garden which is very shaded that brightens it up with its plentiful white flowers.White tinged variagated ivy works as well. Wet again today but loads to do in the conservatory and planning my Mayday display for next week.
Thank you. Good to have a recommendation of plants that suit and grow well.
Just need that touch of white to lift the border. It's not in the shrubbery/tree (west) border but sheltered from easterly winds by established variegated ivy on trellis fencing, so border about four X six feet in shade, the rest of the border extending into the sunlight. Always been a bit of a problem area.
It looks like a dull, wet start to a dull, wet and eventually colder week. But it will not stop the garden growing lusher and lusher every day now and my goodness there is lots of potting on needing done - peppers and cocamelons have been added to the list to join the tomatoes which have their first flower trusses and the maincrop potatoes needing planted. My early 2Charlotte" outside are showing above ground and the Dutch Iris "Royal Yellow" from a farm in Cornwall are showing their glorious gold colour in time for May Day. Perhaps I might not have been such a duffer at Chelsea after all! Whitsun display will be even more gold as my Coreopsis "Early Sunrise" are beginning to flower and yellow pansies too. Some very late daffs I planted in January are flowering too.
Marion! My Spanish bluebells are finally flowering , my hubby and I have been busy over the weekend in the nice weather, built a large raised bed, in which we had to order one tone of soil to fill it, we are now suffering from aching backs , a nice hot bath was welcomed later, I will send you a picture tomorrow, you look like your very busy with your tomatoes and your pictures are lovely too, keep up the good work Marion
I pricked out 15 cucamelon plants from the packet of seeds we were sent by Mr. Fothergills for the Nation of Gardeners Trials. I bet they will need put into bigger pots very soon. They look like very fast growers. I have just put three more tomato plants into their final pots, staked and labelled them and started the daily round of pinching out side shoots. Got some early potatoes from raking about in the bed so have a treat for supper tonight. I thought some of the broad beans would be ready to accompany them but not quite big enough yet though i do like to eat them, skins and all when they are small.
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In Bristol when we have wet and warm summers the potatoes and tomatoes outside get decimated by blight. I do not like the taste of the blight resistant potatoes so concentrate on earlies and moving the crop about but the bungalow tends to shelter tomato plants lined along the drive from the fungus which comes in the rain and it never affects any under glass. We do have outdoor ones in the trial as well as three types to grow under glass. I have a beautiful hebe in my woodland garden which is very shaded that brightens it up with its plentiful white flowers.White tinged variagated ivy works as well. Wet again today but loads to do in the conservatory and planning my Mayday display for next week.
Thank you. Good to have a recommendation of plants that suit and grow well.
Just need that touch of white to lift the border. It's not in the shrubbery/tree (west) border but sheltered from easterly winds by established variegated ivy on trellis fencing, so border about four X six feet in shade, the rest of the border extending into the sunlight. Always been a bit of a problem area.
It looks like a dull, wet start to a dull, wet and eventually colder week. But it will not stop the garden growing lusher and lusher every day now and my goodness there is lots of potting on needing done - peppers and cocamelons have been added to the list to join the tomatoes which have their first flower trusses and the maincrop potatoes needing planted. My early 2Charlotte" outside are showing above ground and the Dutch Iris "Royal Yellow" from a farm in Cornwall are showing their glorious gold colour in time for May Day. Perhaps I might not have been such a duffer at Chelsea after all! Whitsun display will be even more gold as my Coreopsis "Early Sunrise" are beginning to flower and yellow pansies too. Some very late daffs I planted in January are flowering too.
Marion! My Spanish bluebells are finally flowering
, my hubby and I have been busy over the weekend in the nice weather, built a large raised bed, in which we had to order one tone of soil to fill it, we are now suffering from aching backs 
, a nice hot bath was welcomed later, I will send you a picture tomorrow, you look like your very busy with your tomatoes and your pictures are lovely too, keep up the good work Marion 
I mean I will send you a picture of our raised bed not the bath!
I took an hour off my gardening efforts to attend a charity coffee morning in a neighbour's garden and won this! A supply of fresh fruit enough
to do me till my first strawberries are ready.
How lovely Marion. You will have to work out a rotation of eating - probably the bananas first. Very pretty basket too.
I pricked out 15 cucamelon plants from the packet of seeds we were sent by Mr. Fothergills for the Nation of Gardeners Trials. I bet they will need put into bigger pots very soon. They look like very fast growers. I have just put three more tomato plants into their final pots, staked and labelled them and started the daily round of pinching out side shoots. Got some early potatoes from raking about in the bed so have a treat for supper tonight. I thought some of the broad beans would be ready to accompany them but not quite big enough yet though i do like to eat them, skins and all when they are small.