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Just come in.... it went dark...  :'(
Lots of watering... another cucumber, courgette, and tomato cull...
planted out some beetroot and beans.. shelled some peas for saving and 1kg of Magnum Bonum for freezing...  :)

noticed that one of my damson trees are nearly ready, so i picked a few ripe ones today but they were so-so tasting. are any of your damsons ready yet? a lotti friend gifted me some of his eating apples, but they still had a bit of a tart taste to them...

watered today for an hour, but then we had a bit of rain so i've been told (been at work all day so didn't noticed). said it'll be a downpour tomorrow - let's hope so!! it's been so dry here in notts and getting sunburned watering for more than a hour each time isn't good for me! :-\

Picked some tomatoes (some had blossom end rot - bummer), TWO cucumbers, parsley, rocket and chives for the salad and a green Black Beauty courgette. And ate a few raspberries off the bush  ;D ;D

Walked around the wet lawn in barefeet.

Cut 8 courgettes.  Must make some courgette bread tomorrow.  And maybe courgette soup.  ::)

Picked. runner beans, parsnips, tomatoes, lettuce,marrow, pumpkins,fennel and a few herbs!! What a great year !!! :)

picked a trug full of discovery apples to give away, 2 to process into puree and juice, made 7 lbs of damson jam, brought home 9 sweet corn cobs, first of the season, yum  ;D

Dug up Kestrels and bagged
Harvested Carrot's, Runners, Peas, beetroot,
Given apples and Victoria plums
Borrowed a big swede
Weeded and Watered
;D ;D ;D

Picked (more) courgettes, pattypans and dug up the Cara spuds.

Tasted a plum for readiness (was a BAD idea - sour as anything).

Dug up our first Roosters...very yummy too,
harvested all of the beetroot, picket some marrows, chillies, runner beans and sweet peas, watered the tomatoes and did a bit of weeding  :)

cut the grass pathes,pick sweetcorn and cabbages, carrots,watered everything ,we had a coffee break and i picked wild flower seeds for next year,shard my veg with my nabour aged 98.

i picked some tomatoes and some carol Leenstra benas my first one ( thanks jayb for the seeds) think those beans are going to be loaded, the plants are so prollific.

Wtaered everything one for it to rains seconds after I got in, oh well there can never be too much water hey.

Down the lottie with the boys later tomorrow see how thats doing.

Weeded around my leeks.
Cut back the foliage on my potatoes because they didn't look healthy.
Picked French and runner beans, a cucumber, and some carrots oh and a few potatoes for a vegetable curry.
At home I potted on some basil and sowed some overwintering onion seed in modules.

Duke

Laid some well rotted manure on the area's I've weeded and hoed over the weekend.

Watered the greenhouse.

Picked 1 red tomato  ::)

Dug potatoes, picked runner beans (again!) , picked spinach and cut a couple of marrows.  :)

Harvested the rest of my onions bar 4 which still have greenery on them
A lot of weeding
Mixed home compost in dalek
Listened to police sirens
:-\

Harvested french beans, courgettes, ridge cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, raspberries and early leeks. As usual no time to weed, feed or dig over the potato patch for leeks to go in.

Finished weeding old onion patch
Planted more leeks
Harvested carrots and a few figs
;D ;D ;D

Weeded the front garden.
Cut all the grass at the back.
Dug a row of potatoes.
Picked a few more plums (& ate them!).
Watered all the pots.

we made frames for our winter cabbage and cawli,picked more courgetts,beans,and watered,need tea and bicy.