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Took 4 hanging baskets down tidied them up, gave them another feed. Picked runner beans, and picked all the ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse. Had a meal supplied by next door and was then too full to do any more work!!

Walked to the allotment, started cutting the grass, then a tremendous clap of thunder and lightning, didn't want to get struck by lightning, so walked/run home and just about got home before the rain started.

Tidied up for the Open Day and dodged the rain!  ;D

After this morning's storm passed I was on the allotment just long enough to pick some raspberries but it started to rain again so I made the dash back home. What a miserable day! And now I wont be able to get there til next weekend so I guess it wll be another weeding session to look forward to!

Picked the last of the runner beans for the freezer (I can't freeze any more  ::) the rest will go to neighbours and family.

Picked raspberries and made raspberry icecream.

Strawberry bed weeded and replanted. 7 seed trays full of plants ready for a 2nd bed!

Ninnyscrops

Picked beetroot and pickled it.

picked the last of my radishes, picked some pakchoi for dinner, composted spent peas and sweetcorn plants, generally tidied a bit then went inside for lunch and forgot to go back out :P ;)

Yesterday I weeded, harvested carrots, spuds and a small cabbage, went down the pub to watch the footie, went home for my dinner and watched the rain, thunder and lighting show from my back door.  ;D ;D ;D

Nipped over to plot and picked beans, corn, toms, spuds and a red cabbage. Called in at daughters on the way home and parted with most of it. :o ::)

Harvested runners and sweetcorn earlier, only bought one cob home, and you wouldn't think any of us had eaten the way all four of us fought over one juicy, buttery cob,   :P  and how come the three year old seemed to have won.  ???       ;D ;D ;D

Dug up potatoes for the show on Saturday - do you think I can find 5 the same size and shape  ???

I've got a Donald Duck and a Mickey Mouse tho'  ;D

Ninnyscrops

Managed to finish laying a path and cut the hedges before the big open day on Sunday.... hope the weather improves! Oh and nipped down to cut the cutting sunflowers just before it went dark!
;D

Tony and I were at the plot at just after 9 am. We were back at 11.30 after picking beans raspberries, blackberries and some chrysanths. Spent the afternoon processing it ready for the freezer. Even managed to get some washing done. Its great to be able to do exactly what I want to do without the responsibility of me mom. BTW the home phoned last night and she is settling in very well. Going shopping tomorrow cos its gonna pee down.

Picking beans and raspberries, a few toms. Loads of stilt grass going to seed ::)

Harvesting flower seeds for next year.

Began a jug of Basil Wine, first attempt. If it tastes terrible can use for cooking.

Harvested spuds, carrots, sweetcorn :P and beetroot, covered 25 cobs with plastic bottles and cleared some weeds.     ;D ;D ;D

It rained almost continuously until 4 pm, then cleared a bit. At the lottie, said hallo to a frog in the water tank then harvested some Pink Fir Apple spuds (good crop; interesting shapes; minor slug damage), beans and more beans, Ferline tomatoes (still blight free, unlike Gardeners Delight and Alicante), autumn fruiting raspberries and some good sized  Nantes and Chantenay carrots. The slugs are having a field day and have eaten the tops off some of the carrots, but there is still plenty of juicy flesh left. Also harvested the last of the pot grown Charlotte potatoes. Cabbages, kale, sprouts, spinach, beetroot, parsnips and leeks are doing well. There were a surprising number of people down there this evening, even in this weather.

In the garden this morning, finished off a waterfall into the pond, loosely modelled on High Force but not on quite the same scale!  - i.e. it has a drop of about 18 inches but makes a good splashing sound and should help to keep the water clear. This gardening lark is fun, even in the rain, isn't it?

Absolutely nothing 'cos it poured down.   Am also having to rest with legs up as got badly burned on the ankles and feet last week whilst on holiday on the Isle of Wight.   

CC

Dug up hundredweights of Potatoes, Desiree, King Eddies and Picasso... huge spuds as the tide was coming in and another day of rain and they would have been standing in water...  ::)

Very wet down the lotty but round the shed and my raised beds I have put down bark so it is ok to walk on, Mrs Smith painted the shed door I watered and picked some Toms, cabbage, sweetcorn and a colly and moved a water butt :)

After hurricane, propped up flattened twig arbor.
Am hopeful its blue morning glory and moonflower vines will continue to bloom since they only commenced  in Sept.!