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• Chilli Update

  

  My chillis got off to a very bad start this year, but they are catching up rapidly. Most of them now have some small fruit, or at least flowers. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Climbing Beans Are Climbing

  

  Well, the beans had already climbed, and now they are flowering. I nipped out their growing-points as they reached the top of their canes, which will encourage... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Vignettes

  

  Regular readers will know that I like to take "pretty" photos of my flowers and veg, as well as functional ones. This post shows off a few shots in which I... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• More Tomato Problems - Blossom End Rot

  

  "Why did you pick those tomatoes when they are not yet ripe?" you'll say.This is why:They have Blossom End Rot. It looks like a ghastly disease, doesn't it? Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Poached Chicken with Broad Bean Sauce

  

  It's a while since I posted anything about cooking, but the availability of lots of lovely home-grown Broad Beans has persuaded me to rectify that. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Planting Leeks

  

  A couple of days ago I showed off my "pencil-sized" Leek seedlings, so you will understand that they were ready to be planted out. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Harvest Monday - 13th July 2015

  

  This is the time of year when the veg-plot is most productive. I like it when I can take photos of several different veg harvests simultaneously!This time I hav... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Potato Harvest

  

  This week I harvested the first potatoes from one of my big new containers. For a while now I have been dissatisfied with the containers in which I have been... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Tom Thumb Visits Elyburg

  

  This year I am growing lots of different types of Lettuce. We like variety in our salads, and besides, if you grow all the same type they tend to all mature at... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• A Brassica Day

  

  Yesterday I spent some time re-organizing my Winter brassicas. The Brussels sprouts were particularly in need of some attention because they have grown quite bi... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• What's New?

  

  Despite the "roller-coaster" weather we have had, with temperatures lurching from one extreme to another, a dearth of rainfall but a surfeit of wind, the... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Tomato Progress Report

  

  Despite the bad news I reported yesterday - the weedkiller contamination problem - I think I may get a decent tomato crop this year. "Ferline"Most of the plant... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Good News and Bad

  

  Lots of the veggies in my garden are doing well, but one of them is under threat. Let's deal with the good news first...My first cucumber is nearing pickable... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Harvest Monday

  

  This week saw me picking Broad Beans again. This time it was the last few of the "De Monica" and the first of the "Imperial Green Longpod". The contents of... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Broad Bean Harvest

  

  Although my harvest of Broad Beans is not large, it is very welcome. So far I have harvested 2.6 kilograms of pods, and I expect I will get about another... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Potting-on the PSB

  

  My Purple Sprouting Broccoli is destined to follow on from the Broad Beans. The latter are just producing their harvest now, so I have to keep the PSB waiting... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Early July Update

  

  July came in very dramatically here in the UK. 30th June and 1st July were both very hot days - especially Wednesday 1st July, which was a record-breaker. Here... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Self-pinching Cucumber

  

  The other day I wrote about one of my Cucumber plant developing droopy leaves:Well, the whole growing-tip of this plant shrivelled up and died.Bur further down... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Pale

  

  My garden is going through a "pale patch", with lots of white / pink flowers in evidence at present.PhiladelphusThe Philadelphus (Mock Orange) is in full bloom... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Broad Beans with Smoked Gammon

  

  This is the first meal I have cooked this year with home-grown Broad Beans.Home-grown Broad Beans are not available very often. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME