3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

What is it? What the name of the red flowers please? Oh, crumbs! Is that how you train your peas or beans. I am dead. I put 3 canes very close to one another. This plant, possibly the marbled squash, suddenly has sprung up in my flower border! There is also another one in a tub. Then a sunflower has grown out of nowhere! A patch which was home to daff, tulips, hyacinth and some vegs has now shown tomato seedlings, 2 alstroemeria plants, and some others! I am dead - don't even know to weed them or not!

Just had home grown salad and discovered 3 big slugs hiding behind plugs. Thank heavens they stayed underneath the little plugs which I grew microgreens in. No point buying microgreens. A bit of rubbish!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

No! Those plants that are looking soooo healthy romping away up the canes ( NOT) are embarrassingly.....my Morning Glory....not very Glorious are they

Advert your eyes from them please and look at the stunning red ones, known as..........Artificial Silk Flowers.!!!!!.
To be totally honest with you, they are not even silk...but definitely not PLASTIC.......I have some pride in what I put in my garden

 

[DirtMechanic]

Pretty steady pickings. I thought I was past the squash borers, but like everything this year they came 30 days late. Glad I crowded the plants a bit, it is easier to be rid of one and opens up not only some ventilation but also a zigzag walk path as they get grow off their squash hills and into the paths and are dense and brittle which is a bad combo to walk through without breaking a stem. The cucumbers are about to riot, and the tomatoes are packing on both in numbers and weight. I picked hard Saturday before I sprayed, but even so these came out this Monday morning.

 

[MaryMary]

@BigC, I have found a free fertilizer for you to use on your grass!! (I suppose anyone could use it, but you seem particularly interested in keeping your grass green, and "free" never hurts!! )

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/lawn-care/lgen/coffee-grounds-lawn-fertilizer.htm



@DirtMechanic, you're getting a nice harvest!!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

@DirtMechanic .......are you sure they are not Silk

 

[MaryMary]

@DirtMechanic .......are you sure they are not Silk

Wax!!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

 

[alp]

I remember once I had so many potatoes that my ex started moaning to my son that he didn't want any more! He gave me broad beans which I stupidly didn't know what to do with them. They went to the compost bin. Now I realise how nice they can be served cooked in a salad. The good life i.e. grow your own fruits and vegs and keep your own chickens, is actually not so romantic as every blueberry more or less ripens at the same time. Hope you juice them, DM!

Looking at @DirtMechanic 's cucumbers, I lament the fact that I just put 5 plants out to the sun and the baking searing heat. I am worried they will tie my metal chair down. They had already tied themselves to it. Any way, that has tidied up that spot a bit.

Imagine 27 to 30c in Scotland. I reckon the Scots should be banned from any railways, tarmac, roads, pavements as they might explode in the heat!

Dyson's Joy Very prolific

This is called Piquesqueak. I rename it dampsquid!

These flowers are 2 inches above ground, but very delicate. Could be Inticancha Cabana

The ubiquitous verbena Bonariensis - Beware of this beauty - it has legs - probably migrating at night and can be found everywhere in your garden.

People are harvesting their tomatoes and I have only ONE flower!

The biggest blueberries I have

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Yum!...Blueberries!!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Yay!!! We are in for some Rain!!!! Sunday into Monday

 

[Zenj]

A couple from today it’s been a lovely sunny day, and one at dusk of one of the hog visitors having his supper

 

[alp]

That electric blue really wakes me up and cheers me up in amongst the son's sniffings! Very beautiful delphiniums. I have bought tons of astrantias and now I have no idea where they are. I must hunt them down and join the party. Love your visitor!

I am 100% sure that you will have some rain, for me, I am not too sure.

What a nice area I live in - 10 doors down the road, we had a police cordon

Right at the end of the house a policeman was standing guard!

 

[alp]

Yay!!! We are in for some Rain!!!! Sunday into Monday

I will persevere with my prayers!

 

[DirtMechanic]

View attachment 39415 View attachment 39416 View attachment 39417 View attachment 39418 View attachment 39419 A couple from today it’s been a lovely sunny day, and one at dusk of one of the hog visitors having his supper

Oh my. That is beautiful!

 

[DirtMechanic]

That electric blue really wakes me up and cheers me up in amongst the son's sniffings! Very beautiful delphiniums. I have bought tons of astrantias and now I have no idea where they are. I must hunt them down and join the party. Love your visitor!

I am 100% sure that you will have some rain, for me, I am not too sure.

What a nice area I live in - 10 doors down the road, we had a police cordon
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Right at the end of the house a policeman was standing guard!

Hopefully they warded off evil spirits?