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Planted out my drawf and blue lake french beans and also my sweetcorn.

Not a great deal, when I am on nights I can only get a few hours in.
Got the sweetcorn in and sunflowers for the birds to eat when they are ready.
Then it started to rain and has continued all night. Only just stopped for a break and now the rain has started again.0508hrs

planted a dozen sweet pepper plants

plenty of weeding.managed to get the shears on the hedge line so thats all tidy now

i have a leak at my header waterbutt so need to address that tommorow,my rainwater is getting wasted

planted up the last melon in the poly and a couple more tomatoes  ::)
plus planted another potimarron squash outside, all looking really good and the rain all night helped  ;D

i did some serious weeding!! my ground is like concrete when dry so i took the opportunity of the rain to get some weeds out!

when i got home i looked like i had been mud wrestling but still i loved it!

Me too Le-y, weeding was so much easier today after all the rain ;D
I also thinned out my turnips & swedes, planted some sweetcorn out (abit late but got my fingers crossed), transplanted 2 clumps of comfrey & picked my first strawberries, yippee!

Quote from: Crystalmoon on June 08, 2010, 21:51:48
Me too Le-y, weeding was so much easier today after all the rain ;D

totally you can actually see that i am growing stuff on my plot now :)

Planted out some cauliflowers, calebrese and cabbage.  Very high germination rate I have hundred of seedlings.  Also shifted quite a lot of fat hen.

weeded both the onion beds, dug up some garlic and planted another butternut squash in it's place  ;D

Weeded part of the flower border, dug this over to remove the roots.
Set out the plants to put in and the heavens opened.

Supposed to have put in a mix of alyssum, cosmos, veronica, aubretia, and bergamont.

Fought off my fear of the strimmer, hung in the garage for the last eight months, and it started first go! Strimmed daughter's tiny allotment, then part of my own before the line gave out, curses.

Sowed chitted mangetouts Carouby de Mausanne (bought in Holland last week), netted strawberries and cabbagey things.

made a new squash bed with black pourous membrane & lots of tent pegs to hold it down, was quite a job on my own in the wind :o but was so relieved to get the last of my sqaush planted out & covered in individual cloches (recycled large plastic bottles) ;D

planted out 90 sweetcorn plants, and a dozen sweet pepper plants, harvested some spuds and asparagus :D

Fed, watered and mulched tomatoes, (going away for 3 weeks) and weeded for England. Tried to make all as hastle free as poss for my pals who will be tending plot for me.

Weeded and resowed the parsnips (too late I know but what the hell )
Thinned out beetroot and planted out seedlings in the back garden.
Harvested 14 onions  thats 36 in total.    ;D ;D ;D

thinned and replanted parsnips; weeded, weeded, weeded, planted out yet more leeks, beetroot, chard, spring onions, red cabbage, did I say weeded  ;D planted out fennel and last of the runner beans and some more calabrese - help running out of space  :o

planted on some more peas, french beans and transplanted my cucumbers today under the watchful eyes of my chooks!

weeded the patch that was going to be the pea bed (before the greenhouse decided to move there) and it was beautiful soil so made me very happy to think what my soil might be like next year (its horrible this year)


weeded a bit and watched the chooks have a dust bath and a rugby scrum over a worm :)

Hot here today in Cornwall so got to lottie very early and watered a few things.  Then weeded and weeded some more, then I weeded again.  Stopped for a break, admired my onions which I overwintered (and most of which survived against all the odds) and which are almost ready.  Then weeded along my neighbour's border (it's an overgrown plot and weeds creep onto mine).

Got round to pulling up last year's parsnips left to flower cos the bees go mad for it, easy to pull out.  Put up some more pea netting.

And finally picked some wonderful strawberries (nearly 3 lb) some of which I have already consumed sitting under my garden umbrella on my decking outback.  Heaven!

Spent 4 hours up there, so I needed my lovely snack and the rest.

Regards, Caro


Regards, Caro

Hot here in Cornwall so went to lottie early.  Mega-weeded, pulled up last year's parsnips left to flower cos the bees love 'em so much.  Put up some more pea netting.  Watered squashes, beans and sweatpeas also spinach, planted last row of annuals for cutting.

Had quick break whilst admiring my over-wintered (against all odds) onions, which are almost ready, weeded again.   Dug over small plot in readiness for some brassica plants.

Picked 3lbs of magnificent strawberries some of which I have just consumed (avec Rodda's for those in the know) sitting under an umbrella out on my decking at home.  I was 4 hours at the lottie, I deserved that snack !  Luv me lottie.

Regards Caro