CATCH UP TIME

CATCH UP TIME

Posted on 27 Jun, 2008 10 comments

Hi Folks.

Seems ages since I wrote up, well it has really, but with feeling a bit crook and busy out in the garden, I’ve been too tired to do much, but anyway, here goes.

The camera nest box I installed, has sill not had any lodgers, but I had a family of coal tits in one of my other boxes, and a robin family in another.
I couldn’t manage to take any photos of the robins, but, with the help of my brother-in-law, managed to take some of the coal tits.







I’ve been overrun with salad leaves grown, one plant to a pot, on the window sills. Very nice in a salad sandwich. I’ve also started on my radishes, but they don’t seem to have swollen as much as commercially grown varieties. Guess I’m not watering them enough. I’m also getting good crops of Charlotte potatoes, grown in my large tubs. I’ve emptied one tub and replanted with beetroot I have grown from plugs …... just trying this method out.

I wonder if any others of you have had a bad year with spring onions and beans? Not many grown at all thins year, but the last lost of broad beans I planted, I soaked for 48 hours before sowing in pots. I was surprised to see they had chitted in that time, but don’t look too bad and have been planted out amongst the sweetcorn and look good.

I’ve had my first Tumbler tomatoes and the plants in the hanging baskets are coming on. However, the Gardeners delight and Shirley don’t seem to be doing too well, despite a weekly feed.

I’ve also had the first serving of Marshmello Strawberries and they were very tasty. I notice that there are enough ready for my tea tonight.

I have decided that, as I am not as mobile as I was a year or so ago, that I will not be planting anything in the dug areas that I have at present, once the garlic is up. I have dug up one variety, Pink Lady, but not too impressed. They are a bit on the small side, but that may be because of bad drainage. Iwill leave the other standard Garlic, White Pearl, in for a little longer and give them a soaking. The stems are turning white, so must be nearly ready. The Elephant Garlic are still mainly green, though I had one left over on planting and put that in a large pot on it’s own.
Turned out to be small, but smells OK The Pink Lady are all tied up and hanging in a net, out of the sunlight, and I will keep an eye on them.

As for the rest of the garden, all the containers and hanging baskets are looking good



BROOM

This Broom is the biggest it had ever been and seems to have taken over part of the garden, but brightens up what is basically a dark corner, north facing
part of the garden.





PATIO ROSES

Right. That’s all for now, Folks! Got to get some beans ot of the freezer that I grew last year and scrape some tates that O fot out of the garden, that’s going to go with the smoked haddock in garlic butter sauce and fresh parsley,
also from my herb corner. What could be better?????

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