2018 Calendar

[Jungle Jane]

July in the Garden

It’s been so dry my grass is turning to straw,that’s a neighbours cat & our cats on the lawn On the patio there’s tomatoes,peppers,potatoes,petunias,peas,carrots,spring onions & cucumbers with some leeks on the table I still haven’t planted photo two is where swedes have just germinated,I’ve covered it with greenhouse shelving so my cat doesn’t go on it & sunflowers have just recently gone in where my broad beans came out. Photo three is melons in buckets,tomatoes,sweet corn & runner beans. Photos four & five are mainly potatoes & my garlic. I noticed this year I could put big pots on my path & still squeeze through everything,as long as there’s a bit of gap for a foot to step,I’ve got a bit more growing space

[bario1]

Midyear comparison

Just for fun, the same view in January and July:

[1Bee]

Love that...

[Chestnut]

July



Mid July, sunflowers just starting to flower, beans have climbed to shoulder high, dill seeds are forming, and courgettes are going mad.

[bario1]

Last of the sun?

Here's the same view I posted earlier this month... a bit of sunshine makes a big difference!

[Penellype]

August



Tomatoes are growing well. the ones in the green pots are balconi yellow and balconi red, which have already produced a crop on the spare bedroom windowsill. The browner one nearest the weigela bush was in the house the longest, the other 2 are covered in new flowers. The white daisies under the weigela have finished flowering already, probably due to the heat.



Another balconi red tomato on the left. The apple tree has loads of fruit but it is almost all on the very low branches, which I have had to tie up with sticks to stop them from resting on the floor. I'm not really sure what to do with this tree, which is on M27 rootstock. Its not doing quite what I hoped at the moment. Meteor peas have been removed and replaced with a bucket of dwarf french beans.The apricot tree in the other bucket is looking quite happy, unlike my bedding plants, which are frankly a mess. The lawn, cut yesterday, has not been watered at all during the dry weather.



Tomatoes and a cosmos plant in the growhouse growing well (I'm waiting to see what colour the only surviving cosmos is before deciding where to put it - either pink or white). The garden pearl tomatoes in the buckets are growing well and the Lady C potatoes in the quadgrow planter are about ready to harvest, as are the Charlotte on the raised bed at the back. Carrots and brokali under the big net, cabbages and swedes under the small one. The clematis is hanging on in there, despite a lot of dead leaves.



Potatoes (Charlotte and Desiree) starting to die down. Framberries and strawberries have finished and are producing runners. Plenty of fruit on the blueberries in the fruit cage, which are ripening fast now. The 4-way joint near the centre top of the frame has been split by the gales, so I don't know how long the frame will last now.



Calabrese under individual nets has been harvested and is growing sideshoots. White flowered runner beans (Stardust) growing up the arch are just starting to set. Tomatoes doing well - I harvested the first 3 fruit from the Sungold (to the left of the calabrese) yesterday. Cucumber is looking a bit worse for wear but still has flowers and fruit. Peas near the fence (Terrain) and in the green pot near the calabrese (Geisha) are producing a few pods.

[Jungle Jane]

August in the Garden

It’s been so hot & sunny,plants are coping ok...In the first photo my leeks are behind the dahlias,I forgot to take a photo of them. The second photo has courgettes,runner beans,sunflowers,swede (no hope for these with the cabbage whites,but we’ll see) tomatoes,lettuce,one carrot & a cucumber plant in a bed. The third photo is sweetcorn,more runner beans in between,tomatoes behind & around with melon plants in black buckets doing really well (emir). Photo four is some cut down potato haulms ready for harvest today & more tomatoes & sweet peppers. The fifth photos have cucumbers on the right next to some main crop potatoes & more tomatoes

[Jungle Jane]

August Close Ups

A few close ups of sweet peppers gourmet (ripen from black to a dark red) next to peacevine cherry tomato,the thumbnail peppers having a lay down I don’t know how to correct it on the ipad & I can’t remember the name of it,emir melons,aranyalma tomato truss & cucino cucumber underneath wall baskets of halms gelbe tomato & petunias.

[Penellype]

September

Apologies for the quality of some of the photos - taken in the morning in very bright sunshine.



Tomatoes Ferline, Shirley and Balconi (yellow and red) fruiting well.



Another balconi red tomato in the green pot. Plenty of apples still on the tree. French bean Sonesta in the bucket and 2 smaller balconi red tomatoes at the back. Some of the plants on the fence are strawberry Just Add Cream, which have pink flowers, but unfortunately the wasps are eating the fruit before it ripens.



More tomatoes - Shirley in the growhouse and Garden Pearl in the buckets. Carrots and brokali under the big net are being eaten by silver y moth caterpillars - I've caught several adult moths in there and also in the fruit cage. Most of the potatoes have now been harvested but a bucket of Arran Pilot remains.



The raised beds are storing buckets of used compost from potatoes and winter brassicas. Normally these buckets would have been replanted with brassicas for this winter, but most of those have been planted at the allotment. It has made quite a difference at home. The framberries on the shelf are producing loads of runners - I need to decide which, if any, to pot up. Potatoes at the far end are Desiree, still with plenty of green.



Kale and calabrese under nets. Runner beans climbing up the arch. The cucumber on the fence is still producing plenty of fruit. Herbs on the path (the white flowers are garlic chives) and bottom right is my poor hanging basket raspberry, which has been reduced to lace by raspberry sawfly.

[Chestnut]

August


Photo taken a couple of weeks ago - spuds and cauli are out of the ground now, sprout seedlings planted out and some late carrots and experimental parsnips/swede/turnips sown under fleece to protect from pigeons. I know it’s very late for sowing parsnips in particular, but I would rather risk an experiment than throw them away

[Small pumpkin]

A little bit of my September garden. I might take a few more photos in a few days if I mange to tidy the rest of it up .
But I quite like this bit of my garden at the moment. Pumpkin, courgette & sunflower bed.
Runner beans to the left and a forest of Brussel sprouts to the right

[Jungle Jane]

September in the Garden

I decided to put netting over my rocket this time some of my balconi red plants-sowed Jan 15th are in the first photo too. My leeks are in the third photo,bottom right,with tomatoes,sweet peppers & a few cucumbers on the patio. The last photo has swede amongst the courgettes with sunflowers & lettuce marvel of four seasons,also there’s lettuce in the raised bed behind.

[Jungle Jane]

Close Ups

Runner beans celebration have lovely pink flowers,goji berries,sweet peppers,grapes & an apple

[veggiechicken]

I've missed a few months Thought I should add a photo before the leaves change colour and fall off.

[Chestnut]

September

Thanks for reminding me VC!

Here’s September photo, few things looking a bit past their best, and the tomatoes quietly keeling over behind the beans....