What did you do in your garden today?

[Meadowlark]

Official description: 'Kentucky Wonder' ( Phaseolus vulgaris 'Kentucky Wonder') is an heirloom pole bean variety that produces 8-inch long pods on 6- to 8-foot long vines.

French beans are small, slender, and straight to slightly curved pods, averaging 7 to 10 centimeters in length, and have a cylindrical shape with tapered, pointed ends.

Call them whatever....but here they are pole beans without any credit to the French.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

We have a North pole, a South pole, and pole vaulters; not pole beans

 

[Meadowlark]

Your loss is our gain!!

 

[Sheal]

Yes, we do know them as French beans Oliver but I don't know for how much longer. Supermarkets are changing their name on packaging to green beans. I suspect there may be an issue with the word 'French' since Brexit.

 

[gary350]

92 National cucumbers.

8½ gallons of Bread & Butter pickles.

 

[Sean Regan]

Around 10.00am.vthis morning I mist sprayed the acers and hosed down the roof and back of 'arry's house to cool it down

As it sits on rubber feet on a paving slab, it's well above the level of the earth which drains quickly and has the over-size roof I made that sits on top of the original for more weather protection. He's stopped chucking out surplus hay so I must be content with what he has.

He does a bit of a "jog" around the garden each night, so must be quite fit, though he looks a bit "porky" here. But he has to build himself up as he may start to hibernate in eight or nine weeks time, as he did last year.

Won't do any more watering until tonight. Catching up on the athletics recordings I made overnight.

 

[Vicy]

Courgettes, French and ru ner beans harvested today from my containers! Going to flash fry with herbs and oil as a quick side to my partners bbq!

 

[Sean Regan]

Just done my final watering.

Gave the wisterias a good drink as they use a lot of water, if they are short it can be too late and they don't recover.
Should be cooler for golf tomorrow and there might be some rain on Thursday, but that's "shoppiong day" I don't mind.

 

[DirtMechanic]

I walked around the outside of the fence thinking somebody needs to pick the tomatoes and okra and squash and do something with all those weeds!

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Courgettes, French and ru ner beans harvested today from my containers! Going to flash fry with herbs and oil as a quick side to my partners bbq!

They look good, you don't get huge amounts from containers, but isn't it nice to have something you have grown? And really fresh is a different flavour to the things that have been through a distribution warehouse and shop for a couple of days.

Watered the garden and greenhouses, then took out a bucket and jug and watered myself all over. The bathroom is coming on, but I shall be so glad when it is finished.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I saw some seed potatoes at a knock down price a while ago and bought them. There was a little bit of land where I had cut large sods and turned them over early last year, I grew some climbing beans on it last year and when I cut the hedge in the Autumn I ran the clippings through the mower and spread them out over it. It was still pretty rough when I put the potatoes in, the surface had been hoed, but it was still in big lumps. I planted four rows of four, a nice square. When I cut the lawn I mulched the plants heavily with it, partly it was too rough to be able to earth up easily, partly I couldn't afford to water. Today I dug them, and the ground was dry as dust, so of course it wasn't a super crop, but what there are are nice and clean. I certainly got back my initial investment.
I dug thoroughly, found the turf I buried a year ago and broke up the big chunks and a lot of the dried out grass mulch became incorporated. I now have a small area that is clean and the soil is improved. I am wondering what to plant there next, it is quite late in the season, cabbage?

 

[Sean Regan]

Just a couple of hours as it looks like rain.

I got into the wisterias as the unwanted growth was rampant.

There was also some "bunching" at the left hand end.
I had to tackle it with the ladder from the front, up between the cross beams and from over the fence between the house and the garage at the left hand end.

Job done.

Same with this one.

I've left some of the branches at the front in the hope they'll drop more like the others since I've tied them down. If not I'll prune them off in the winter. Doesn't look much different but there was a lot that needed pruning at the top.

Pruned some of the roses, then gave both patios and the path a good sweep and a vaccing.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

So yesterday I discovered half a tray of left over leeks and thought 'Great, I'll put them where I took those spuds out' . I cut a couple of trenches and piled the earth up either side so I could wash it back in as they grew and I watered. Planted out sixteen leeks and thought 'I'll do the rest tomorrow'. This morning when I got there I discovered some early bird had dug all through my neat heaps and trenches, leveling them and uprooting leeks. Heigh ho.
Tomatoes are coming in a bit regular now, chili just starting to have the first ones, and courgettes of course, broccoli seems to be mostly done, I think it was too hot and dry for it. Took up the shallots and took them in and the missus said "Oh good, I was just thinking I need some for an aubergine curry and hadn't got any" Sometimes things work out perfick.
Started on the back hedge, a major job that will be spread over several days, or as my back can take it Still, made a good start.
Watered, I was going to say 'Of course', but from facebook I discover half the village has been without water for the last twenty four hours or more. Thank goodness it wasn't us, the builders fitted the new shower on Friday and we had the first shower in a while last night, beats bucket and jug

 

[gary350]

Harvest today.

 

[Sean Regan]

I gave the acer in the front garden a bit of a prune.

At this time of the year it looks a bit like a pin cushion with new growth sticking out in a couple of dozen places or more.
So a job for my Barnel telecopic pruner. The bits at the very top are hard to get at from outside. But the interior is a cavernous void so I can see the offending branches at the very top from underneath as they are bright yellow and I can reach them.

Not a lot of choice for the pot by the front door, but I found this lavender for fifteen quid in the garden centre.