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  • Farway
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    Good picture of the birds Woolsery, no finches around here, or none I’ve seen anyway

    A few days of hot & dry ahead, luckily up to date on my watering so not a worry

    With that forecast I got my skates on yesterday & planted out the last of the coleus into tubs at the front, and tied up some straggly lilies to let light onto the coleus

    I also potted on the figs I grew from cuttings last year, the ones I rooted in water. They have settled in nicely now so deserve a good chance, if my plum does die a fig in the pot would seem ideal replacement, at least they seem tough

    I have a tomato!! Spotted it yesterday, it’s Akron, an F1 that I must have bought on clearance offer because no way would I pay around three quid for a packet of tom seeds. At least just this one means my crop is looking far better than last year’s lot in the grotty compost






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  • Woolsery
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    edited 22 June 2022 at 8:53AM
    Some more great photos, Lily and Farway. :)  I remember Patty of Patty's Plum fame. To give her full name she was Mrs Patricia Marrow and she ran a very disorganised nursery in deepest Somerset where nothing was labelled, let alone priced! She would look at you and decide what to charge on the spot. :D She kept going well into her 80s.
    I was somewhat surprised yesterday to see that one of my silly little trailing Tumbling Tom tomatoes for the deep bed has 3 fruit on it. Better still, we have 3 courgettes pickable today. <3
    I'm loaded up with 9 bags of manure and off to see my friend with the clay soil on the estuary today. Apparently she's already planted all the stuff I gave her last week and stuck 6 bags of cheapo compost around those, so she deserves more help for showing enthusiasm. She's in a really tough place at the moment, caring for a very sick person, so I think the garden's come into its own. o:)
    We have a barn owl visiting the fields every evening, being some of the last to be cut around here. It's too dark when it arrives to get a photo, but we can virtually set the clock by it.
    Just a general photo today, showing that the yew arches are finally coming together, even if the border's a bit sparse and neglected. :(
  • RAS
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    Another scorcher due, so about to head over to the allotment,

    The bargain of the Show last week was a Marshall's offer on strawberry 60 day bare rooted stock. Normally a tenner per 10 plant bundle, offered at 4 bundles for the same cost.

    I've been intending to sort out my strawberries as I have Royal Sovereign and had a few others that got lost amongst. We've bought the same wholesale, planted up and grown or flogged with success. So got a very early, very late and two mid-season. and am planting now. 

    After a 24 hour soak, and 24 hours crammed in a bucket with a little water, three varieties have developed into nice green plants; the earlies are a bit behind. Should give me a late harvest in 10 weeks and a staggered harvest next year. 
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  • Farway
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    The hot weather continues today but only a spot of watering needed now I’m sort of on top of it

     All the strawberry talk, I ate my two survivors yesterday, sun warmed, fresh & in my gob before chance of photos. I do have another one changing colour so if the slugs spare it maybe photo time then

    My Burpless cucumbers are a bit iffy, one has gone to the compost heap in the sky, just keeled over one day and never recovered. Another has just sat there looking glum with a tendril here & there. The other, outside where I expected it to be slug scoffed has surprised me and has flowers on it, only male ones of course just to spite me.Plans of fresh cucumber every day are still in the dream on stage

    Today’s pic is my Thorn free blackberry taken this morning, spot the pollen beetles? This plant is a freebie, a self-rooted tip that sprang up without me doing a thing, and of course it must love where it has chosen ‘cos there’s more potential fruit on it than on its mother


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  • liberty_lily
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    edited 22 June 2022 at 10:53AM
    Farway said:

    I do wonder if all this Eco & unkempt looking show gardens are a bit “Emperor’s new clothes”, it’ll be a brave judge who crosses the Eco warriors, as you say RAS, must be infuriating when not show quality is given. You may recall someone submitted plastic flowers once, the Irish bloke I think, and because of name he got away with it.

    I couldn't agree more, Farway 🙄

    Whilst I'm all for rewilding (in the right locations, which isn't everywhere!) and am personally trying to attract as much wildlife - except deer and escaped cows, lol - to our garden, I do think so much of this eco warrior stuff when applied to gardening is virtue signalling.....

    Anyway, back on topic....

    Glad you got to eat a couple of strawberries, Farway, but shame about the cucumbers 😔 We currently have just the one strawberry on the plants we put in a few years back...although elsewhere in the garden the wild ones are encroaching (and as my rewilding effort, I've left many to ramble through the jungley bit 😉).

    What a wonderful name, Woolsery....I'd love to be called Patricia Marrow - or maybe I wouldn't 😆😆😆 Great pics too - particularly the swallows!

    I spent a chunk of yesterday sorting planters around the mill entrance as well as the courtyard, where it was blooming hot. More of the same to follow today as I ran out of compost yesterday...

    Today's pics are fruity ones!!!

    Apples (and a sheep!)



    My one Medlar (Nottingham Royal)


    And one of just two surviving Quinces (Meech's Prolific)



  • twopenny
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    Very envious looking at the pics and reading your stories.
    So blisteringly hot here again even the geraniums are suffering. The roses are crisping up nicely still and hard to keep on top of the deadheading.
    I managed to dig out a little turf today and pick redcurrants but the sweat was dripping off me so apart from mowing the lawn i gave up and went for a swim.

    I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!

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  • liberty_lily
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    edited 23 June 2022 at 5:56PM
    I don't blame you giving up to go for a swim, twopenny 😄

    It's been another scorcher here today...till mid afternoon when a couple of spots of rain fell. It's still spitting now, but imperceptibly....

    Got the last pots planted up, did more staking (mainly veronicastrums) and lots of weeding in one of the herbaceous beds where I discovered that the vernonia giganteas aren't dead! Yay!

    One of our rambling roses is today's offering from me...

    Wedding Day 


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  • Woolsery
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    Smashing rose lily. When I get the stream area sorted I'll plant a rambler for the hell of it and let it go into the trees our farmer neighbour doesn't maintain and I believe we share. >:)
    Not much to report. I 'lost' all the manure somewhere in my friend's clay garden and she'd also bought more bags of cheapo compost and dug those in. It was 27c when we did that!  Perusal of the labels from dead plants revealed only 3 losses: a teucrium, a hyssop and a helenium, so last winter's lack of drainage wasn't that bad. The clematis are more recent losses.
    Back home, it's been mainly mowing before the rain, which hasn't materialised. I've loaned the van to SiL, so I can't get the ride-on mended. :( Still, along with the digging, I've been getting my exercise! :D
    The owl returned on Wednesday night and brought its mate. :)Last night I was too knackered to wait, but I spotted one of them materialise on a post at the far end of the field as I was locking the hens up.:smile: Locking up is being done very diligently. A neighbour 1/2 mile as the crows fly had 30 hens wiped out in a night. She says they were locked up, but I'm guessing in a matchwood Chinese house, not a good old shed with double bolts on the door and hatches. Always a chance of a badger!  :o

  • Farway
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    Bit of a change in the weather, dull but warm enough for weeds to continue growing

    Not much work on garden front, just fed & watered the pots at the front first thing this morning even though it looks like it may rain I know if I do nothing it will never rain. I may do same for the large pots out the back later this afternoon

    Today’s pic is of a rose up at the volunteer patch, I was up there yesterday giving the pots a hose soaking while rain tipped down, the pots are in a rain shadow so tend to dry out. Anyway the rose is Peace of course


    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
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