2015 Calendar

[datz]

Missed a month! Anyway its been a scorching June here in the Auvergne and everything is growing away madly. We have had loads of strawberries and currants and dug the first new potatoes last week. I may have to give up on broad beans here though as once more they are very late and only a couple of pods per plant( "The Sutton")
Though this may be due to having to re locate them away from the teeth of the,campagnol terrestre (a bloody annoying vole, classified as a pest here), that had taken over a mole run and was merrily chomping through my leeks, beans and lettuce. Between our cat and a trap I think we have finally got them all.

[Bill HH]

I am afraid I have missed a lot of months due to health problems of my wife and myself, but i have at last made it. I am not sure why but nearly all my stuff is late this year compared to everyone elses. but its all catching up now.


Lettuce, spring onions,a few leeks, flowers and in the gh toms and cucumbers.Also sweet peas courtesy of Martin H.


Potatoes using the disused fire escape.


Sweet corn, leeks, onions etc and in the cage cabbage, peas, carrots and lettuce.

[Jungle Jane]

June

A few photos of my plants in June. Red tumbling toms,sweet peppers,french marigolds,nasturtium & geraniums all mixed together in the same pots,good companion plants,all like tomato feed too. Cucumber,melon,few different cherry tomatoes & the same flowers in the walk in blow-away tent,potatoes outside in bags & large pot of peas with carrots growing directly underneath,never tried this before,but the carrots are well sheltered,the carrot fly will never know.

[Greenleaves]

Just thought I would post a picture of the Autumn / Winter project. Adjoining plot and not been cultivated for 8 years, bargain though, first 2 years rent free. OH thinks I need my head lootking at and she is probably correct!

[Hazel at the Hill]

View of the Hill - June 2015



During the month I have:

At the Hill:
- weeded and weeded and weeded
- planted out runner beans, dwarf french beans, courgettes, squash, pumpkin, sweetcorn
- tied up the pea wigwams (again)
- attended a talk on veg showing at the clubhouse
- joined in with the annual site tidy up
- installed 'Laura the Land Girl' scarecrow
- sowed carrots

Harvested:
- rhubarb, asparagus, a few strawberries, new potatoes, broad beans, sweetpeas

At Home:
- cut living salad

[Penellype]

Love the scarecrow Hazel

[Penellype]

July pictures

From the garden door

Peas, courgettes and nasturtiums to the left have grown a bit (as have most things)

From the lawn facing south

The bush tomatoes have replaced the spinach and its getting harder to get past. Broccoli seedlings under the net next to the wormery.


From the lawn facing north east

Currant bush has been pruned and netted, peas have collapsed under their own weight in spite of attempts to tie them up.

As near as I can get to the garage wall

The potatoes are now so big that there would be little point in taking a photo from the corner. There are 4 varieties of potato, 2 sorts of beans, 2 sorts of leeks, spinach, blueberries, raspberries and a gooseberry bush in this picture.

From behind the fruit cage

The fruit cage completely obscures the view from the corner now. This shows the onions, pole gardens, beans, courgettes, cucumbers and melons growing at the back of the veg garden. The main tomato crop is just out of shot on the left.

[1Bee]

I have so been looking forward to doing this.

I didn't post in May, because our plot was pretty much still a lot of bare earth... we knew the work we'd put in, but it didn't show on pictures so well.

As a reminder, first day on the plot:-

And now, roughly the same view:- and from the other way:

The courgettes are doing well, and late as they are I'm pretty happy with the parsnips.

Cont'd...

[1Bee]

The 4yo's bean teepee finally looks like it might be getting somewhere, and the raised beds sowings are sprouting.

And apparently the site consensus is that our potatoes are as good as anyone's one site...

All in all we're pretty darned chuffed for our first two months!

Thanks for all the advice and shared glee, folks.

[Greenleaves]

Looks really good 1Bee

[Penellype]

Lookign great 1Bee - I was thinking the potatoes looked good

[1Bee]

You know what's going to happen now, don't you? Either we'll get blighted in a month or so, or when I come to dig 'em up something horrible will have happened to them... at least they look good now!

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

July already! "Time flie's when your having fun"

apologies in advance for "Smokey" picture's, should have wiped the lense!

"Flying Rats" have had a "Pick n Pike" but hopfully we shall recover!



"Sweetcorn" Taking an absolute age to get going! Think I may have set them too early, lost a couple too, but hey! 2 choices! but the little borders have done me proud this year, a little tweeking needed!



Greenhouse/Tunnel coming into it's own!



Well Chuffed with it all!

[Greenleaves]

Stunning as always Deano

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Cheers GL! And really glad I ain't tasked with your new "Venture"

But I surley wish you all the very best with it!