3: Gardening Diaries ...

[Upsy Daisy]

Wow you do have a lot. I'm not that great with them, which is sad because I really love them.I've tried digging them up and over wintering them but they just dried up and died so I then tried leaving them in the ground and they still died.Now I just treat them as annuals and ditch them at the end of the season...which is a shame

 

[Logan]

Morning all,@alp here is the jam, it's the same as the other. With the cucumbers, they go yellow after picking, don't put them in fridge.

@alp i would like a collection of dahlias, beautiful flowers. When i was growing up there was someone had a whole garden of them.

 

[alp]

Wow you do have a lot. I'm not that great with them, which is sad because I really love them.I've tried digging them up and over wintering them but they just dried up and died so I then tried leaving them in the ground and they still died.Now I just treat them as annuals and ditch them at the end of the season...which is a shame

As my garden is very hot. Not much of a problem for me. They even set seeds for me and I managed to get some money back, especially Teesbrooke Audrey! Once they start flowering, they will do so for a long,long time and hence in October after went to Hyde Hall with free admission, ex said I had more flowers than Hyde Hall.

@Logan That's a nice harvest. I have had 2 proper cucumbers, but they have prickly tiny thorns on them. This year, all is very sad, one courgette (even that was bought for 75p) to grow on. One or 2 cucumbers or melon plants. All sad and pathetic. We do like the cucumbers though. Freshly picked, they were juicy and fresh. Well done to the jam. I need to sort out my cooking apples.

Good morning to all, a very grey and dark day. No rain - and now the crazy Met Office is sending vibes that we are going to have autumn now because of the repositioning of the jet stream. What can we do?

 

[alp]

Experts again!

 

[alp]

Wisteria advice

Ooops! Sorry! Didn't know you were giving me a link. Got it. Thank you. I googled and pruned one yesterday, Going to prune another today!

 

[Logan]

Thanks @alp i didn't think that i was going to have any cucumbers, very slow.

Sometimes it can be very disappointing.
How are your apples? They should keep as long as they haven't any blemishes.

The wasps have been at my blueberries, i'll have to pick a lot more,but where to put them. Was hoping to pick them when i could use them for breakfast, but have to find room in the freezer or in fridge.

 

[Leeski]

Morning all yet another cloudy gloomy day on Wirral need some sun my out door tom plants are crying out for some sun and heat one plant has over 200 toms on it and is over 7ft tall

 

[alp]

Logan: you can just juice them and it is instantly beneficial for your heart! That's what one female doc said in Embarrassing Bodies. Just drink them or eat them as snacks. I had a little bit of harvest yesterday. Still don't know how to make them as big as yours. But I am so pleased with all those I have, especially the pink ones and Sunshine Blue. Wonderfully sweet.

Apples: I'm thinking of slow cooking them with raisins in where the core parts supposed to be. I hate raisin in my cereal. I will pick them out stuff the apples. One stone killing 2 birds.

 

[alp]

Morning all yet another cloudy gloomy day on Wirral need some sun my out door tom plants are crying out for some sun and heat one plant has over 200 toms on it and is over 7ft tall

Good morning, Leeski - Did you drill all those holes in the containers? Very neat!

7ft tall??? I'd would need a ladder to harvest if they were that tall. Mine is about 2 to 3ft tall. This cold and breezy weather is so dodgy. I do always have sun. You could crease my tin foil to see if the reflection helps. @Logan is very good with this. She does it to her seedlings nearly every year. This kind of ups and downs in the weather is killing our plans, don't you think? As long as they are indoors, they should be OK as there is the constant temperature which won't split the toms. Don't know if I shall reinstall the tomato greenhouse. Really hate the weather this year. Need to water my dahlia in the tub and apples. Something's jinxing my typing. I kept typing appled??? I need to blame something. I'm a bad typist, really!

 

[Leeski]

Good morning, Leeski - Did you drill all those holes in the containers? Very neat!

7ft tall??? I'd would need a ladder to harvest if they were that tall. Mine is about 2 to 3ft tall. This cold and breezy weather is so dodgy. I do always have sun. You could crease my tin foil to see if the reflection helps. @Logan is very good with this. She does it to her seedlings nearly every year. This kind of ups and downs in the weather is killing our plans, don't you think? As long as they are indoors, they should be OK as there is the constant temperature which won't split the toms. Don't know if I shall reinstall the tomato greenhouse. Really hate the weather this year. Need to water my dahlia in the tub and apples. Something's jinxing my typing. I kept typing appled??? I need to blame something. I'm a bad typist, really!

I had to heat a metal rod and push it trough as there brittle plastic and think a drill would have shattered the plastic
Looks like it’s going to be wet and windy for the next wk :-(

 

[Logan]

Morning all yet another cloudy gloomy day on Wirral need some sun my out door tom plants are crying out for some sun and heat one plant has over 200 toms on it and is over 7ft tall

That's a lot of toms.

 

[Leeski]

That's a lot of toms.

I have never seen so many tomatoes on one plant they are still green and small will take some pics

 

[Logan]

Logan: you can just juice them and it is instantly beneficial for your heart! That's what one female doc said in Embarrassing Bodies. Just drink them or eat them as snacks. I had a little bit of harvest yesterday. Still don't know how to make them as big as yours. But I am so pleased with all those I have, especially the pink ones and Sunshine Blue. Wonderfully sweet.

Apples: I'm thinking of slow cooking them with raisins in where the core parts supposed to be. I hate raisin in my cereal. I will pick them out stuff the apples. One stone killing 2 birds.

Thanks, I'll eat them as a snack.

That's a good idea with apples. Score them around the middle so they don't burst.

 

[Leeski]

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning all.
Your toms are doing very well @Leeski , must say we are having a brilliant tom harvest this year too

Yum @alp I really love stuffed baked apples. Yes the apples should keep for ages so long as they don't have any damage at all

We picked a load of blackberries yesterday, love to put those with apples too, but usually eat them just fresh adding them to our breakfast or to yoghurt...lovely. We don't really eat a dessert so I don't make crumbles or pies with them unless we have friends over for a meal.

Doing well with your jams @Logan , again we don't eat jam either, although I have in the past made some when our brood were young

Our strawberries and both our grape vines were a disappointed this year, but thankfully blackberries, apples and pears are loaded