This morning it rained...nice fine soaking in rain..not too cold...shorts and rain jacket weather!!
After finishing the ironing and keeping all the clean clothes...and text chatting with friends....and doing this morning's "leçon"....time for a sandwich lunch and an afternoon's gardening as the clouds cleared and the sun shone.
Tomatoes and aubergine plants are in the earth in the greenhouse ..and drying garlic! I've got three small melon plants but I don't know if anything will come of them.
Runner beans are just starting to run...squash and zucchini plants are there but a bit reluctant! I've had germination problems...but that could be old seed!
Beetroot are doing ok. And a few carrots. Broad bean plants are ok..no blackfly yet, but I'm keeping an eye out!!
I've just put half the seedling leeks out..my back needs a rest before doing the rest!
All that and it is a running battle to crop the fruit before the blackbirds...I don't mind sharing some...but as far as they are concerned they don't do sharing!! Between them and the gooseberry sawfly caterpillars the currants and gooseberries are suffering.
Supper in a minute then tidying the first half of the garlic crop that has been drying already... mainly cleaning off broken leaves and any earth clinging to them.
And of course the evening "leçon".....I may not be getting much proper spoken practice, but my reading and listening is coming along ok helped by links my friend in France sends, and cycling pages on fb like "Dans la musette"... although some of that is extremely colloquial!!
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It is all looking very lush. Obviously benefiting from the rain!
Wow. A busy day out in the garden.
Do you have an opportunity shop near you? Maybe get some old lace curtains and just throw it over the garden to keel the birds out.
Unless we cover our fruit trees we don’t get any fruit.
One of my goals is to have a row of raspberries on the boundary between our house and the neighbor's property. He is very territorial. The thing is that we really have no intention of infringing, but I think that a nice row of raspberries, with a invitation for him to help himself to the berries on his side would be a friendly 'fence', don't you think?
Your garden is looking great. The heat and rain combination are working well for the plants.
Your garden certainly looks well leafed out and prolific even if you do regard some as late. At least you see blackbirds stealing fruit. My uncle hated thrushes - called them sneaky thieves. We have more thrushes than blackbirds here.
Sounds like a plan....
Both peck and run merchants! I wouldn't mind so much if they actually eat the fruit...so much just on the ground one peck and discarded
Looks like you will have quite a fruit harvest despite the sawfly caterpillars. I don't know how you manage to eat/use all this food!
Steve fruit preserves, dried fruit, pickles and chutney make good presents!! As do fresh veges when I have a surplus. I used to grow and store a lot more.
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