Uh-ho…..first its bees, then wasps. Just call Mrs Doolittle! This one is hanging in my shed that houses the mower. Now thats going to be fun when we try and get that out! Its petrol. I may smoke them out with it! We are very friendly with all our local animals…can you tell!? (Nelly the Beagle was nearly not very nice to a local rabbit this morning, but panic over, it escpaed! Phew!)
I’m nice and re-freshed from my jollies, and back into the thick of it at home. Got back mindnight Sat, and then Sunday, in the garden all day clearing out the greenhouse (on the hottest day of the year – oh, SO VERY clever Cat!) and hacking excess foliage off the tommys, cleaning paths and planting celariac into the raised beds.
My greenhouse is looking wonderful and healthy with the tommys that we have grown. My dads “buy a tomato from the spanish market, like it, dry the seeds, and plant when come home” method seems to have worked and we’ve got lovely green cooking toms. Not very big, but they are there. Better than being a sterile F1 hybrid that I was panicking we may have had. Oh wouldn’t that have been fun with the 40 plants all being sterile!
What you cannot see here are the plants that I have left by the old stable walls, as we have too many to go into the greenhouse, so I am trying to do it the old fashioned way, and using the warmth from the brick walls to grow the tommys. Hope it works!
I looked at the tatties aswell yesterday – they are Pentland Javelin, and have not flowered yet, although have started to form a bud. I did notice that they were a bit yellow on some of the leaves:
I’ve googled it, and I believe that it should be okay, maybe a Magnesium deficiency….or something similar. Hoping not blight….
I’ve also got some pics from Spain, where i also grow some fruit, although, not being there, it kind of looks after itself, or i’d be a little bit busy! Mainly fruit.
Olive tree – with Olives – I was VERY excited! In Italy, you can make your own Olive Oil with the olives from your garden! Sadly Castleford does not offer such a service. Don’t know why…?
Could be a lime, could be an orange. As in the UK, my labelling is a bit cack!
**anyone on WordPress – I have lost to 2 buttons at the top of the page where you can flit from HTML to Visual – does anyone know how I get that back? Or is it just an update that has removed them – I hate change, I really do!** thanks! Me (techno idiot extroidinaire!)
I grew Pentland Javelin last year and the year before in containers and I tipped them out before they flowered. I got a great harvest from them and they tasted delicious.
Hi Jo – we also tipped some out of a bag that we had planted up, as an experiment, and there were 3 big spuds and then about 15 really small ones, so I think they may need more time, or just haven’t watered them enough…? Fingers crossed that we get a good amount! Cat