Gardening: June 2007 Archives

Thought it was about time I updated you on what I'm up to, on the knitting front it's a felted bag from Nicky Epsteins Fabulous Felted Bags - the Fuschia one. Here's how it is so far (lots more leaves to knit!)

On the gardening side we have a major problem - Vine Weevils!! evil little b*****ds they're everywhere so I have spent £30! on nematodes so fingers crossed they sort it out and it all recovers. The Cauliflowers and Broccoli are suffering the most, but here's a pic of the one cauliflower doing okay - it's lovely how the leaves wrap it up inside to protect it when it's little!

Some fab news, Max and Warren (not to mention Emily and Harrison) are coming to stay! Warren says he'd like the nice Chinese we had last time they came - I think he's still a salad dodger (like he was at uni when we flatshared) and is alarmed by the mention of us having an awful lot of lettuce to eat!!

The courgette fell off!! I spotted the culprit though - a little tiny slug, so I covered him in organic slug pellets! That'll teach him to sneak into the greenhouse! But no need to worry there's more growing well!

Going to Venice very soon! Very excited and charging the camera battery ready!

I just tried walking Paul around the garden showing him all the progress but he really doesn't share my enthusiasm, so I'll share it with all of you instead!

Every year this clematis performs fantastically, it never gets much bigger but couldn't possibly fit another flower on it!

And look how well the salad boxes are doing, complete with nasturtiums for a colourful salad, we've had quite a lot of salads in the last few days (I even had a lettuce only sandwich to try and get through some of it)

Here's some of my many, many pots I'm rather pleased with nicely collected around the old singer sewing machine base!

Lastly here's Bob enjoying the new border that is fast filling up but at the moment has lots of room to bounce about in and hide behind plants to jump out on Tiggy the cat!

Elsewhere I have the start of the tomatoes and peppers, an inch long courgette, flowers on the peas so they'll not be long and the rhubarb is still producing well! Unfortunately my day in the garden yesterday was cut short as the summer shower turned into a torrential downpour complete with thunder and lightning! Tiggy and I made a run for shelter only to have to run back out again to retrieve all the tools when we realised it wasn't going to stop (at least I went back out, Tiggy said 'sod that, I'm off to bed mum')

If only it would stop raining I'd get outside and take some pics of all the action in the garden - lots of flowers opening. The blue clematis is performing as well as ever, it's absolutely covered in huge blus flowers - really quite spectacular! and the first sign of a plum tomato is showing! I'll post again soon with pics but been a bit busy and I've had the in-laws stopping!!