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Trying to post my pics but the ads at the sides of the forum are obscuring half the box and I can't see what I am doing. Will try again later.
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A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy -
Er yes something has gone really screwy online. I cannot see half of what I'm typing
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LOVE growing food to eat in my little town back garden. Winter update: currently growing overwintering onions, carrots, lettuce, chard, salad leaves, kale, cabbage, radish, beetroot, garlic, broccoli raab, some herbs.Comment
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All sorted now ladies
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July pics:
Near the hotbin
Tomatoes have now been planted out but are rapidly being swamped by self seeded nasturtiums. Strawberries are turning red and have been netted.
Near the apple tree
Sungold tomatoes are growing well and there is a nice crop of apples on the way (I hope). White currant has been pruned and there is plenty of fruit.
From under the archway
Early peas and spinach have finished. The growhouse now contains a cucumber, a few seedlings and 2 of the balconi tomatoes from the spare bedroom. Runner beans are starting to make their way along the string on the left. The 2 saladgrow planters are now housing leeks (which seem to like it there) and tomatoes and fuchsia berries. Carrots and calabrese growing well in the mesh cage. Every bit of available space is crammed full, with beetroot in the green pot, peas on top of the cover for the brassica seedlings and wild strawberries on top of the compost bin.
The dark area behind the fruit cage
Charlotte potatoes are beginning to die down and are almost ready. The desiree are still green. Everbearer strawberries have been netted against birds and there are buckets of brokali and kohlrabi underneath. The green net in the foreground covers spinach and the pot on the fence at the back is the french beans I grew on the windowsill in spring, still producing the odd bean.
The veg garden
Yet more strawberries, main crop peas nearly ready and the early ones near the fence are about finished. Onions looking a bit tatty now. The early potatoes in the quadgrow are being harvested and the 2 front pots have been sown with carrot flyaway (to test its claims of fly resistance) and swede, which I have never grown successfully. The back 2 pots will house tomatoes, but I will need to cut the hedge first!A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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A few more pictures from around the garden
A different view of the hotbin area
Courgettes in the cold frame
The Sarpo potatoes near the archway
The veg cage
Hard to see but parsnips on the left, carrots at the back and in the middle, and calabrese on the right.
Shady corner behind the fruit cage
Strawberries in towers near the hedge and Desiree potatoes.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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Loving your work NG
What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Pumpkin pi.Comment
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TY for all your lovely comments. I was a bit dubious about the vid but glad I did. Its the being your own worst critic
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Not much to report at the end of June but plenty growing, albeit a little slower than normal
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Looks great GL, I'm sure Jane will be well chuffed................Originally posted by Greenleaves View Post
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^^ I hate predictive text.......
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July in the Garden
The first photo shows broccoli,leeks & dahlias in a bed behind the pots of tomatoes,onions,petunias,geraniums etc in photo two. Runner beans moonlight & celebration,Evesham special brussels sprouts & ovation sweetcorn in the fourth photo. Red onions,white geraniums,two cucino cucumbers,dwarf sunflowers,nasturtium,elephant garlic & a couple more runner beans growing up the swing in the last photo,the cucumbers are just touching the net.
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July in the Garden
A few more photos showing last years runner bean plants-celebration amongst brussels sprouts & tomatoes. On the patio lots of potatoes & tomatoes. The last photo is a pot of dwarf peas & carrots.
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Brilliant photos, Jane. You must be very pleased with how everything is coming along.
The moonlight runner beans are a variety I've got down to try next year as they are self pollinating and have good reviews. I'd like to grow even more beans and flat podded peas next year as they seem easy to grow and give very good returns for the space they take up.LOVE growing food to eat in my little town back garden. Winter update: currently growing overwintering onions, carrots, lettuce, chard, salad leaves, kale, cabbage, radish, beetroot, garlic, broccoli raab, some herbs.Comment
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You did really well. I hope I am brave enough to try video one day - maybe next yearOriginally posted by Norfolkgrey View PostTY for all your lovely comments. I was a bit dubious about the vid but glad I did. Its the being your own worst critic
LOVE growing food to eat in my little town back garden. Winter update: currently growing overwintering onions, carrots, lettuce, chard, salad leaves, kale, cabbage, radish, beetroot, garlic, broccoli raab, some herbs.Comment
NOOOOOOOOOO!!
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