Saturday, July 4, 2009

July 09

4th July

things going well apart from my Hestia runner dwarf beans not growing i read a tip tso i took all the leafs on and cut back going to spray and sock with soapy water to try keep greenfly away i thinning its that but theres yellowish and curled leaves so i have to fing out whats up with them the seeds cost me dearest as well ,well got one bean on one plant i save that for next year hehehe

got 7 nice beetroot out now going to boil and pickle beets or nice :)
letuse OK tomes flying up turnips OK but not keen of them so i will not be growing them again
corn big hope to get something off them fingerling taties flowing other not might have been wind damage thats stutted the other taties but connot wait to try the fingerling one hope end of month

main pic of garden 6th july (click on pic for bigger pic)






courgettes

corn, tomes, onions not got any ripe ones yet and the leafs are worring me going curly have to find out whats up wi th them and soil very dry cannot kep up with water as takes 15 mins to fill a bucket with the well but i trying my best to sort it





































bottom celery doing well so are onions ,taties, broccali got all the beetroot out today (8th july hope to make a few jars of pickle beets i love them on a salad need some water for my taties hope to get rain in few days of not have to water them






15th july
well next 6 days will tell what happens to veg this year i was watering and i pulled my back si i cannot lift goign away for 5 daus as well so weather hot so hope plants will cope without me

sown some late f beans beetroot and peas (testing then )and hope enxt week sowing some lettuce see if i can get a crop for fall

27th july
well one week away can do alot for a garden has i just found out
lost plenty of beans going to seed but thats ok in ways i will use them next year
lettuce bolting celery gone funny and plenty of weeds