GreenFly - A 'flylady style' gardening thread with weekly tasks to tame your garden

redofromstart

Mine is a weedy mess sadly.  I took my eye of it for a few weeks for various reasons and now I am trying to play catch up.  Pockets of nice and smiles as things flower.

EssexHebridean

Aargh - the combination of heavy rain and windiness meant that the canes supporting the runner beans around our lovely metal obelisk said "enough!" yesterday - two canes snapped, meaning that the third collapsed, and the entire top section of beans came sagging down into several tomato plants. Imagine our joy when we realised that we were going to have to venture out in the rain yesterday evening to sort things out!  Anyway - it DID get mostly sorted - at least, the tomatoes got rescued from underneath, we took the chance to harvest some beans we'd not previously been able to see, and will just have to do our best with the remainder now I think.  I also noticed that in spite of what I thought, there are also a number more of the yellow bush beans to harvest - they really are the gift that just keeps on giving! 

The first of the flat yellow courgettes has been harvested but not yet eaten. 

Anyone know whether it's best to leave Bishop's Crown chillies on the plants to ripen to red, or will they do so if I pick them and leave them on a windowsill? 

EssexHebridean

Beans still coming, albeit at a slightly slower rate, and the yellow ones have pretty much finished. 

Cucumbers coming steadily - and courgettes likewise, it makes a nice change to have THOSE at a rate that means we're not swamped with them.

Tomatoes now being picked daily although still in small-ish number, and the sweet peppers have started changing colour as well which is exciting.

Cabbages were re-sown and are now peeping through - hopefully they'll be OK in their starter pots for a while until we have time to pot them on.