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Ower Tone sprayed his tatties ready for the blight. I dug and mucked a patch for some maincrop onions ( I know its a bit late but its first time growing them and I just want to see if they make a bulb before the winter sets in.) picked raspberries and tay berries, mange tout, beetroot, spuds and lettuce. One more root of Rocket and we are on to the Pentland Javelin. Yippeeee. Nearly forgot. Planted the willow seedlings eack side of the bench.

Watered the plots at 6.45am and had raspberries for breakfast while we were up there :)

Watered hanging baskets at home that were looking droopy.  Waiting to go to the allotment to water, but it is just too hot out there at the moment.  Certainly is sunny Enfield today.

 :) been going to lottie every morning really early to water and pick , picked pounds of redcurrants, blackcurrants,goosegogs, peas.

lovely lottie neighbour insisted we pick all his strawberries as he is going away for a few days, ate as many as we could, but making jam at the mo and drinking vino ;D

sorted out toms and melons,watched the house martins coming down to drink at the spillage from the taps,loads of butterflies,boiling hot day, bliss!

got to plot at 7am left at 2pm, and if we could have some lovely gentle overnight rain it would round up a perfect day 8) / shades x

Watered this evening.  ;D ;D ;D

yesterday, the tunnel was 98 degrees at 9.30 a.m. so, we, well, Ray, watered  ;D

Transplanted some sweetcorn, weeded and watered.  ;D ;D ;D

I dug a 10 x 4 veg bed thats 2 in 2 days also riddled about a quarter of the soil from that bed.
Sprayed my beans with garlic water and watered all the plants.
Oh and now I am drinking a bottle of lager as a reward.

 :D picked more blackcurrants,redcurrants , red goosegogs, cherries ( a fight between me and every bird imaginable!)

was given sweetpeas and lots of strawberries and broad beans, what lovely lottie neighbours,

dug up shallots and garlic/ shades x

Dug out a row of Epicure, the first Kohl Rabi, got a calabrese head from DebP, some tomatoes (whippersnapper) and had them for tea... Did some watering, planted out some french beans, took down a row of Peas and shelled (3lbs of peas)...  :)

I got about 20 pea pods which is good for me.  Will be even better next year, think I will grown them up chicken wire, and they got all tangled up in the netting I put over them when they were small.  Boiled some beetroot so can go to bed now.  Missed Manuel at the allotment today as the pumpkin seems to be growing out of the compost box and may need supporting.  Hope he will be there tomorrow and show me what to do.  Gave it the four watering cans of water and a good talking to and it just kept growing.  He gave it to me and will never forgive me if it gets top heavy and the stem breaks. He is pumpkin mad and if he grows the biggest will give it to a charity shop or raffle it for charity.  Apparently we have a charity shop that takes vegetables, it may well be in for some courgettes soon.  All mine are green so far and I am sure I planted some yellow ones and some yellow ones that look like flying saucers.

Woohoo, made it to the plot unsupervised for the first time since the op... Frustratingly slow & painful, but I was pleased to have made it. Picked the red & white currants, the first 3 toms (Sungold). Dug up some Annabelle spuds & another row of garlic. Picked 3 courgettes - the flood is beginning but we're still nowhere near a glut (see, we only have 5 plants - because we're not insane!). Did a bit of watering, mostly half a can at a time...

Picked some Tree Spinach leaves for tea as well - thanks Georgie!

Picked more blackcurrants as a swap for red from lovely neighbour at home, we're both making summer pud. ;D

 :D picked more redcurrants and blackcurrants, fought the blackbirds for more cherries,

dug up more garlic,

planted out more runner bean plants,had to water the ground well before the canes would go in,

picked dandelions for my tortoise,

had a cuppa with my mate Harold (88 years young, looks about 60!!)

watched the air display from RAF Waddington from my plot/ shades x

Harvested my first carrots and some lettuce.  :P     ;D ;D ;D

Pulled some beans and more lettuce. Got the cabbage ready for the first time in years and looking forward to it. Checked on the strawberry runners and they have all taken, great. Mowed down the grass between the raised beds and re-covered the cabbages to keep the pests off. Pinched out the side shoots off the toms and looked at my lonely cucumber plant to see if the flowers are coming.
Finally took some Hornbeam cuttings so as there can be a longer hedge down the side and that way I can lay this one in years to come.

 Tied the squash up the canes. Layered all the sweet peas.(had to cos I couldn't reach the bloomin things) picked some beetroot (cooking now). For once I didn't digress from what I had planned to do. Tone got the radar onions up.(chuffed or what), Not a sign of the alium moth,

Shirl have you got any piccies of the squash climbing up the canes.  ;D ;D ;D

While I was setting up the runner bean "tent" I watched the other half of our domestic operation bent over and doing some weeding......... ;D Life is good !!

Quote from: cornykev on July 09, 2009, 20:12:11
Shirl have you got any piccies of the squash climbing up the canes.  ;D ;D ;D
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