Entries from June 2009 ↓

Can you guess what these are?

That’s right beetroot. Everyone else’s are higher, but I am being late this year for some reason.

I planted out my courgettes this week. I’m hoping that the slugs will not find them as tasty as I do. We will see. I have held a couple back in case of the inevitable.

The beans are out now too. Once again, I hope the slugs do not eat them. But it has rained a little lately and that encourages them to eat.

I’ve put my canes up for beans and as you can see, so has everyone else – it’s a veritable cane vista at the plots right now. Hopefully the beans will soon grow.

This year I intend to harvest early and often as last year some of them got too far along to be sweet and tasty.

I didn’t show you me planting the onions this year as I’m sure you still remember it from last year and can look it up on this site. But here are the latest bath on their way to becoming tasty salads and such like. I have again grown a mixture of red and white as they are good for different dishes – I particularly like red with roasted pine nuts and dressing.

I have been growing my greens under netting, hence the cast on these pics. They are so far not slug food and I hope they remain that way as they have a long way to go – some of these are sprouts.

Note the dead fly in the bottom right of the first pic.

It is looking good for a bumper crop of strawberries this year. I do so love delving through the green to pick them and marvel at how the basket keeps on filling until it is more than full.

Then of course I have to eat them in some shape or form, fruit salad, with yoghurt, jam, trifle, etc. It’s such a hardship 😉

I planted a blackcurrant bush earlier this year and it has taken quite well so it is now showing fruit forming.

I planted the bush next the the strawberries so I could have a fruit corner – no yoghurt jokes please. The raspberry bush at the other end has not done so well – ho hum.

I tend to use these nitrile gloves to do the gardening as they allow close contact without ruining my hands. However, they get awfully hot and sweaty at times and I let them dry before using them again.

The only way is up.

The broad beans are not doing so well this year. Some on an adjacent plot are about a metre tall, but mine seem not willing to grow more than 30 centimetres.

I have sown some more and will try a different position on the plot to see if they will grow better. This is the last of this seed so I may go for another variety next year.