Can't you send some of that rain our way? -We haven't even had thunder!! When I was little I was told it was the Giants moving their wardrobes -A lovely explanation I think.
Gosh what super Rhubarb, well done. Hope you had a good break Obelixx, did you see any interesting plants? (How do you upload yur photos onto this Site??)
Just planted 3 lavender bought for 2.99Euros in Lidl this morning. Nice chunky little things. Petit Provence peas just about to flower so have sown some more. Nearly finished Japanese Onions. Must plant twice the quantity next year. Never realised how much we use onions till I grew my own.
Coming to UK today HURRAY! (Only for 24hrs!)-Picking up Biodynamic Gardening Book on Preperations I have ordered from Amazon, so will have lots of interesting tips and wrinkles to report I hope. My Peas thriving at the moment. Cabbage Butterflies have found the Broccoli, but a weird thing has happened. I have noticed a new spider that has taken up lodgings on 7 of the broccoli (several spiders) and the Cabbage White has left these completely alone, whilst consisting laying eggs on the others. It is only a little spider with a white rump. Any ideas? Think I will put this up on the Wildlife Thread when I get back.
Update for Lunar Calender will be from 19th because I am working away today and tomorrow at Farmers Markets am & pm -So so pleased -picked up 10 mixed Dahlias for 1Euro (84pence!) in supermarket sale on Sunday, all sprouting and all happy in pots.
Uk was great, have booked again for 1 day in August -Cannot recommend Euro Tunnel highly enough -35min and your in UK. Return Ticket with Car £63 on selected crossings.
Hello ,used the Euro Tunnel many years ago when Ferries could not run because of really bad weather and we where stranded in France and both of us needed to get back to work , it was great , so easy
Dahlias where a good price , have a bed at allotment, just in front of shed where we sit
Hope all your plants have not been washed away -Thrilled to fill rain barrels again yesterday. Farmers Market on the beach cancelled due to thunderstorms, so leapt into action despite rain and planted out pumpkins/courgettes and cucumbers into the raised beds as they were climbing out of their pots! Now need to plant out peas/celery and beetroot, oh - and baby broccoli (8 left standing after slug attack!)
Here is the Lunar Calender until the end of the month
19/20/21st July - Moon ascending in Taurus so Root Days. Sow Winter Radishes/Turnips and Carrots.On 21st avoid gardening after 1.05pm as Moon is perigee and at closest point to earth so negative effect on plants especially new sowings..
22nd July - Flower Day Moon on turn to descend. . Take cuttings from Summer flowering shrubs. I have added a 2nd Buddlea to my pickings bed -a beautiful deep purple to match the white which has taken root already.
23/24th July - Leaf Days - New Moon 10.45am on 23rd - Start blanching endive to sweeten the leaves which will be ready in 10-14 days time.
25/26th July - Moon descending in Leo so Fruit Days. On 25th no gardening recommended before 6.55am as noued ascending (I don't think that you would be outside then anyway! Darker in the mornings already here which is sad) Prune Apples and Pears/ Nip tops out of tomatoes courgettes, cucumbers and pumpkins to encourage fruit to ripen and form. Cut down Fruited Raspberries, add compost to baby strawberry plants to give them a boost before Autumn. (I scatter ash around raspberries and strawberries from now onwards after bonfires and then top with manure in October before frosts)
27/28/29th July - Root Days again Prepare New Onion Beds for sowing 6-8th August. Do not add manure or sow them in the same bed as this year.Lift current crops of onions/garlic and shallots. Lift potatoes and thin turnips and carrots sown 10-12th July and beetroot sown 21-23rd July
30/31st July - Flower Days Moon descending in Libra. Plant or divide Irises and Day Lilies. Start planting out Autumn Bulbs. Try some Saffron Bulbs -They seem to be much cheaper this year and you only need a couple of stamens to make a tasty rice dish. (Or you could use pot Marigold which imparts the same flavour!) - Don't forget to add chive flowers to salads and crystallise Day Lilies and Rose Petals for Cake decorations on Flower Days.
So there we have it -July will be over in a fortnight. I find that depressing, but then I look at the new garden and am thrilled to see what I have achieved in just 3 months and am looking forward to the challenges ahead.
Just in passing I have woven the young variegated dog wood branches through trellis and looped my clematis around them. Works a treat as they are so stretchy and the variagated leaves look stunning against my purple Jackmanni. Just keep taking the tips off the dogwood so it does not cover the clematis.
My new Bio-dynamic Book is a bit 'off the wall' but I am persevering -Once I think I understand it -I shall let you know!! -But don't hold your breath! Are there any Biodynamic Gardeners out there to join this Thread??
Storms and bangs and flashes all night here but only 2MM of rain. That makes 5.6cms since mid January so my garden is very thirsty. Established shrubs are starting to wilt and my new shade garden is very stressed despite occasional waterings. 13 months of drougt according to the locals and exceptionally hot weather too.
Yesterday I cleaned and weeded all my roses in pots and then top dressed, fed or re-potted into bigger pots because, clearly, I'm not going to get them in the ground now till autumn or they'll die. Same with my clems and other shrubs and treasures I brought or have bought.
My red onions have fried to a crisp, the squashes I planted out with loads of compost are really struggling, the sweetcorn looks OK but is not growing apace. Brassicas OK but also not filling out as they should. I need to get my hands on lots of compost and horse poo.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Allotment and garden going well , although lots of nice warm days , we have had a few showers to keep the plants happy
In fact , just having a heavy shower while having a beer before dinner , have given bushes and trees on stream a major prune , I can now sit in side conservatory and look over fields
Oh Obelixx, you must be really upset. I know it is normally dry and hot down there, especially compared with us in the lusher Normandy where it seems to be more like the West Country. Will you have to rethink your crops etc? Have you got a local Gardening Club that you can join to see what grows well where? - I would have thought raised beds would be the answer, but they will need lots of extra care. I've decided to up my number to 8 to allow for some additional fruit, as prices seem quite high in the shops this year. A Wine producer who sells his wares from the Loire during the Summer here in the Farmers Market tells me he has lost 80% of his crop this year due to early frosts, and he like many other growers is going to have to surplus wines from previous years to mix in with this year's grapes to make up the shortfall for next year. GWRS -yes we've had plenty of rain too, need extra barrels. Cats catching loads of shrews and voles. So good to have a view isn't it. There is something very peaceful about gazing across fields at dawn and dusk. Plenty of bats here as well -New project for Pushkin! - He jumps really high but has not caught one yet thank goodness. Boots chucked into Ditch by local Tomcat yesterday -Came out wringing wet, black and smelly. So much for being a fierce bengal! -Now he says he cannot possibly go outside without me! -Interesting to read Prele (Mares Tails) used by pharmacies as source of Vitamin C and also excellent contre osteoporosis (spelling?). Still struggling with BioD Book -Interesting titbits to absorb. Off to visit BioD Market Garden this afternoon -Will run ideas past them. Found out Veg Lady next to me on a Saturday morning has been on a BioD Course in Amiens. She is also a bit 'foxed' so we are going to see this Garden together today.
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Can't you send some of that rain our way? -We haven't even had thunder!! When I was little I was told it was the Giants moving their wardrobes -A lovely explanation I think.
Gosh what super Rhubarb, well done. Hope you had a good break Obelixx, did you see any interesting plants? (How do you upload yur photos onto this Site??)
Just planted 3 lavender bought for 2.99Euros in Lidl this morning. Nice chunky little things. Petit Provence peas just about to flower so have sown some more. Nearly finished Japanese Onions. Must plant twice the quantity next year. Never realised how much we use onions till I grew my own.
Happy Gardening.
Last edited: 08 July 2017 16:15:38
Hello , I have lavender at home and at allotment, at the moment they are full of bees ?
We have lifted our onion and they are drying , garlic has done particularly well this year
Both spent day at plot , peas where hopeless again , so,o/h pulled them up , going to try growing them as per RHS book I have
Weather again sunny
Coming to UK today HURRAY! (Only for 24hrs!)-Picking up Biodynamic Gardening Book on Preperations I have ordered from Amazon, so will have lots of interesting tips and wrinkles to report I hope. My Peas thriving at the moment. Cabbage Butterflies have found the Broccoli, but a weird thing has happened. I have noticed a new spider that has taken up lodgings on 7 of the broccoli (several spiders) and the Cabbage White has left these completely alone, whilst consisting laying eggs on the others. It is only a little spider with a white rump. Any ideas? Think I will put this up on the Wildlife Thread when I get back.
Rain last night thank goodness.
Happy Gardening!
Perhaps the Cabage Whites known the spiders will eat them ! Personally nelly don't like either
Have a good trip
Update for Lunar Calender will be from 19th because I am working away today and tomorrow at Farmers Markets am & pm -So so pleased -picked up 10 mixed Dahlias for 1Euro (84pence!) in supermarket sale on Sunday, all sprouting and all happy in pots.
Uk was great, have booked again for 1 day in August -Cannot recommend Euro Tunnel highly enough -35min and your in UK. Return Ticket with Car £63 on selected crossings.
Hello ,used the Euro Tunnel many years ago when Ferries could not run because of really bad weather and we where stranded in France and both of us needed to get back to work , it was great , so easy
Dahlias where a good price , have a bed at allotment, just in front of shed where we sit
All the best
Hi Everyone
Hope all your plants have not been washed away -Thrilled to fill rain barrels again yesterday. Farmers Market on the beach cancelled due to thunderstorms, so leapt into action despite rain and planted out pumpkins/courgettes and cucumbers into the raised beds as they were climbing out of their pots! Now need to plant out peas/celery and beetroot, oh - and baby broccoli (8 left standing after slug attack!)
Here is the Lunar Calender until the end of the month
19/20/21st July - Moon ascending in Taurus so Root Days. Sow Winter Radishes/Turnips and Carrots.On 21st avoid gardening after 1.05pm as Moon is perigee and at closest point to earth so negative effect on plants especially new sowings..
22nd July - Flower Day Moon on turn to descend. . Take cuttings from Summer flowering shrubs. I have added a 2nd Buddlea to my pickings bed -a beautiful deep purple to match the white which has taken root already.
23/24th July - Leaf Days - New Moon 10.45am on 23rd - Start blanching endive to sweeten the leaves which will be ready in 10-14 days time.
25/26th July - Moon descending in Leo so Fruit Days. On 25th no gardening recommended before 6.55am as noued ascending (I don't think that you would be outside then anyway! Darker in the mornings already here which is sad) Prune Apples and Pears/ Nip tops out of tomatoes courgettes, cucumbers and pumpkins to encourage fruit to ripen and form. Cut down Fruited Raspberries, add compost to baby strawberry plants to give them a boost before Autumn. (I scatter ash around raspberries and strawberries from now onwards after bonfires and then top with manure in October before frosts)
27/28/29th July - Root Days again Prepare New Onion Beds for sowing 6-8th August. Do not add manure or sow them in the same bed as this year.Lift current crops of onions/garlic and shallots. Lift potatoes and thin turnips and carrots sown 10-12th July and beetroot sown 21-23rd July
30/31st July - Flower Days Moon descending in Libra. Plant or divide Irises and Day Lilies. Start planting out Autumn Bulbs. Try some Saffron Bulbs -They seem to be much cheaper this year and you only need a couple of stamens to make a tasty rice dish. (Or you could use pot Marigold which imparts the same flavour!) - Don't forget to add chive flowers to salads and crystallise Day Lilies and Rose Petals for Cake decorations on Flower Days.
So there we have it -July will be over in a fortnight. I find that depressing, but then I look at the new garden and am thrilled to see what I have achieved in just 3 months and am looking forward to the challenges ahead.
Just in passing I have woven the young variegated dog wood branches through trellis and looped my clematis around them. Works a treat as they are so stretchy and the variagated leaves look stunning against my purple Jackmanni. Just keep taking the tips off the dogwood so it does not cover the clematis.
My new Bio-dynamic Book is a bit 'off the wall' but I am persevering -Once I think I understand it -I shall let you know!! -But don't hold your breath! Are there any Biodynamic Gardeners out there to join this Thread??
Happy Gardening!
Last edited: 19 July 2017 12:14:29
Storms and bangs and flashes all night here but only 2MM of rain. That makes 5.6cms since mid January so my garden is very thirsty. Established shrubs are starting to wilt and my new shade garden is very stressed despite occasional waterings. 13 months of drougt according to the locals and exceptionally hot weather too.
Yesterday I cleaned and weeded all my roses in pots and then top dressed, fed or re-potted into bigger pots because, clearly, I'm not going to get them in the ground now till autumn or they'll die. Same with my clems and other shrubs and treasures I brought or have bought.
My red onions have fried to a crisp, the squashes I planted out with loads of compost are really struggling, the sweetcorn looks OK but is not growing apace. Brassicas OK but also not filling out as they should. I need to get my hands on lots of compost and horse poo.
Hello , Bio , thanks for update
Allotment and garden going well , although lots of nice warm days , we have had a few showers to keep the plants happy
In fact , just having a heavy shower while having a beer before dinner , have given bushes and trees on stream a major prune , I can now sit in side conservatory and look over fields
Hope alls well
Oh Obelixx, you must be really upset. I know it is normally dry and hot down there, especially compared with us in the lusher Normandy where it seems to be more like the West Country. Will you have to rethink your crops etc? Have you got a local Gardening Club that you can join to see what grows well where? - I would have thought raised beds would be the answer, but they will need lots of extra care. I've decided to up my number to 8 to allow for some additional fruit, as prices seem quite high in the shops this year. A Wine producer who sells his wares from the Loire during the Summer here in the Farmers Market tells me he has lost 80% of his crop this year due to early frosts, and he like many other growers is going to have to surplus wines from previous years to mix in with this year's grapes to make up the shortfall for next year. GWRS -yes we've had plenty of rain too, need extra barrels. Cats catching loads of shrews and voles. So good to have a view isn't it. There is something very peaceful about gazing across fields at dawn and dusk. Plenty of bats here as well -New project for Pushkin! - He jumps really high but has not caught one yet thank goodness. Boots chucked into Ditch by local Tomcat yesterday -Came out wringing wet, black and smelly. So much for being a fierce bengal! -Now he says he cannot possibly go outside without me! -Interesting to read Prele (Mares Tails) used by pharmacies as source of Vitamin C and also excellent contre osteoporosis (spelling?). Still struggling with BioD Book -Interesting titbits to absorb. Off to visit BioD Market Garden this afternoon -Will run ideas past them. Found out Veg Lady next to me on a Saturday morning has been on a BioD Course in Amiens. She is also a bit 'foxed' so we are going to see this Garden together today.
Happy Gardening!