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picked 7 lbs of red currants for the jelly, picked loads of strawbs and raspberries, when will they stop coming (now who said that?  ;D); picked some chard and dug up more spuds; planted out a few rows of rossa di treviso then cleared the first early peas after picking hundreds of them - I almost don't care about the hose pipe ban  ;D

Picked another 3kg of 1st early lady Chrystl today (That's 17kg now).  Another punnet of raspberries which are heading for the freezer. 

Also picked my first pepper today "Big Banana".

Did my second cut of comfrey- it was flowering so thought I'd better! Put some in a dustbin and left the lid off in hope of rain rather than use precious water from the butts. Picked courgettes and first few french beans and dug some more garlic. Planted some beans given by a fellow plotter- didn't really want them but seemed churlish to say no!
Weeded and watered- but not everything as those cans are hard work!

Put up a gazebo (v cheap, £10 in Argos 3 years ago) that was blown away and damaged last week. Lashed it together with duck tape and tethered it with extra strings and new, stronger tent pegs. Absolutely vital to be able to retreat into its shade after working in these temperatures.

That left little time to do more than some urgent watering and a little picking of pea pods and courgettes, raspberries and cherries.

Put ALL the houseplants in the garden - no, surely I didn't count 83  ::)

Ninny

collected yellow & green courgettes, 3 punnets of raspberries, handful of blueberries, gave evrything a big watering....still praying for rain in my part of Kent ::)

dug up the mint I'd planted a few weeks ago and put it in a large pot- could see it had designs on taking over the garden!

at last i can post something here :)

Up at 6am dirty nappy alert and bottle for Harriet and by 7am she was asleep and i was in the garden basking in a cool breeze.

Strung up runner beans so they have some support, watered the growbags (onions, lettuce, tomatos).
Laid down weed membrane over herb bed and made holes for the 2 courgettes and 2 squash plants.
Went over weeds with hoe (only managed 1/2 garden) and Wheelbarrowed soil over to level off the ground (this is where the grass will be so i will be covering this with membrane until we organise some turf.
Wheelbarrowed over more soil to bring up soil level behind patio to mulch dalias and climbers in this weather.
Wheelbarrowed more soil after clearing under the other fence pannels to plant more climbers and shrubs got as far as 4 wheelbarrows when my back decided to seize (10.30am) so after a mug of tea and a bacon butty had a hot shower and crashed for an hour while husband looked after harriet.

photo of my handy work :)
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This is a photo of the herb bed (peonys in the left and side and rhubarb in the shady right hand side :) cant decide how to cover the membrane onces its planted but will probably be wood chips.

Picked some broad beans and carrots for this evening and found a lovely cabbage to go with these. Also had a look around at the cuttings and seedlings for signs of any more loses to the ever growing area to cover.
Looks as though the wallflowers are struggling to get under way, they have shown their heads in one tray but the other twelve trays are not looking so good.
Sown some pansies and sweet peas for next year.
Still waiting for the rain. It falls and evaporates before hitting the ground. It all seems to be going around us yet again :(

Watered and weeded
Took home some onions and shallots and I harvested my first ever Turnip, quite a big un to.  ;D ;D ;D

Watered the spuds and springies
Harvested 2 turnips, beetroot, onions and my first dwarf beans.   ;D ;D ;D

dug up a potato that looked poorly and got a decent amount of potatoes (Nicola)- enough for 5 of us.  harvested turnips, broad beans and our first beetroot.  watered everything and now it's raining!

Not that much been raining allday did put up some pot lockers on the fence

After a long sleep as I am on nights, I sat and watched the rain for a while then said to myself "not going to get much done today" ;D

I dug up 2 anya plants and got 1.64kg see pic.  I also picked some garden pearl tomatoes, 2 courgettes and a dinners worth of french beans.
;D

That's a lot of potatoes!  Are Anya a first or second early?

Quote from: landimad on July 14, 2010, 05:30:41
After a long sleep as I am on nights, I sat and watched the rain for a while then said to myself "not going to get much done today" ;D

'wasn't on nights Landimad but watched the WELCOME rain from the kitchen window

All I hope is that my new fuchsia's are getting a welcome drink after the heatwave we have been in Macmac.

Quote from: gwynnethmary on July 14, 2010, 22:12:19
That's a lot of potatoes!  Are Anya a first or second early?

Second early
Julie

picked a few pounds of peas and this made space for some more chicory - planted some spuds for xmas in the greenhouse - thinned the grapes - picked loads more strawberries and raspberries and spuds - picked some kale as well - then battled home in a gale force wind  ;D