Came home 2 days later than expected to high humidity and Brussels/Kale/Broccoli climbing out of their seed boxes! - Must get them out on prepared plot today as Leaf Day and planting out Cabbage Family recommended plus pruning of hedges. With Jupiter sitting just below to the right of the Moon, according to the Weather Calender, when in close association with the Full Moon, Jupiter brings high humidity and heavy squalls (In Winter this would be threats of flooding and unusual warm periods). Must say the rain barrels are nearly full so it must have rained here whilst we were away, although apart from Saturday night, neighbours say it was dry.
Yes Obelixx I'm going to plant out my Potimarrons and Cucumbers (tomorrow Fruit Day 31st May with Moon descending in Sagittarius. Also supposed to thin out apples and pears after natural 'drop' - Bought multipacks of beans and peas in Poundland and treated myself to 2 new Raised Beds 1 x 1 metre x 20cms for 11 Euros each in Super-U. I know they are really shallow, but need an emergency overflow area for salad crops and want to see if I can stack them to make 40cm deep trough -If so, I shall go and buy 2 more. Potager overflowing with goodies. Ate first peas (sowed in Feb outside under fleece) last night. -King Edwards Potatoes are coming into flower and does Tansy grow 4ft high??!!It's a true giant bearing lots of leaves to be shredded and scattered over brassicas anti- cabbage white butterflies. Going to test out Rhubarb Liquid decoction this evening anti slugs. It has had 10 days brewing so will be interesting to see if it works.
1-2nd June Moon Calender tells us to sow more beans with nasturtiums around them plus sow Sweetcorn -Just telling you this now if you need to rush out and buy more . Will do Weather report and w/e forecast tomorrow - Happy Gardening!
Hello , soon be June Intrested to known if Your Rhubarb liquid works Plot and g/h , now up to date , just can’t seem to get Nasturtiums to grow at allotment Have had lovely weather hear , rained last night All the best
All my squashes, cucs and melons planted out on last fruit days along with remaining larger toms. My own sowing of San Marzano still too small. Sweetcorn planted out too and, since there are just the two of us with Possum here over summer, I don't need any more. A friend gave me a teeny cucumber and a melon yesterday but they need potting on before they can go in the ground. I have strawberries in need of a bed so might work on building one for them.
Red Baron onions look like they're going to try and run to seed rather than fatten up so I'll be bending their stems over tomorrow. Garlic just starting to turn a bit brown so should be ready for harvesting soon and the first of the sweet potatoes to get going will be in need of an obelisk in the next day or two as it's just decided to start heading for the hills.
I have Tuscan and Provençal salad mixes ready for planting out but no more brassicas for now. Might try sowing some tho.
I found that leaving rhubarb laves on the ground after cutting stalks enticed slugs to shelter underneath, thus rendering them easy to find and dispatch. Easier than making smelly concoctions.
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)."
I had brick chipping paths in the veggie plot in my Belgian garden and a deep mulch of wood chip in the rhubarb patch and still had slugs - all that rain! In this garden it's mostly snails but also some teeny slugs, usually lurking in or under pots of new plants.
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)."
I'm happy just to dip crusty bread in hot garlic butter and not chew rubber. I do know people here who collect their garden snails to give to friends who then eat them........
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)."
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Intrested to known if Your Rhubarb liquid works
Plot and g/h , now up to date , just can’t seem to get Nasturtiums to grow at allotment
Have had lovely weather hear , rained last night
All the best
Red Baron onions look like they're going to try and run to seed rather than fatten up so I'll be bending their stems over tomorrow. Garlic just starting to turn a bit brown so should be ready for harvesting soon and the first of the sweet potatoes to get going will be in need of an obelisk in the next day or two as it's just decided to start heading for the hills.
I have Tuscan and Provençal salad mixes ready for planting out but no more brassicas for now. Might try sowing some tho.
I found that leaving rhubarb laves on the ground after cutting stalks enticed slugs to shelter underneath, thus rendering them easy to find and dispatch. Easier than making smelly concoctions.