In praise of watermelon
Uh-oh, seed buying is continuing. This time from Baker Creek across the pond. All squash seeds: Flat White Boer, Jarrahdale (I’ve had my eye on that one since last year…), Noob […]
Squashes and worms
I went up for a quick hour early this morning to add a couple of bags of wet, unrotted leaves from last year to the navy bed as wormfood. If I’m going to do this leafmould thing properly I need to either construct some decent bins or lay in a […]
Summer harvests coming in
Last week was mostly spent showing my 15 year-old cousin around London, so there has been minimal plot time. Poor thing’s had a very damp week of it. All the rain would have meant it would be difficult to do much anyway. August is turning into a real washout. So […]
Squash tally
I gave the plot the promised soaking yesterday as the rain we had didn’t get far down. I’ve taken all the deformed leaves & flower stalks off the runners, and there were more normal ones there than I thought, so perhaps it won’t be catastrophic. One plant had to be […]
Squash and bean conundrums
Another quick trip up just to water all pots. I’ll need to give the whole plot a really good soaking on Friday if it doesn’t rain on Wednesday as forecast. Hand pollinated a Potimarron and bagged another for tomorrow, though I couldn’t see any male flowers to use. At least […]
Tackling to-do lists
Most of this weekend was spent either away or trying to hang the new telly on the wall. It’s a bit high, but hopefully we’ll get used to the cricks in our necks… Nearly everything has been done from my to-do list, bar the digging and putting black plastic under the […]
More squash geekery
Pinching out the growing tips on the main vine. There are a lot of recommendations online about this. I’ve not tried it before but when the slugs ate the growing […]
Squash geekery
Up early to water and some digging. My plug plants should arrive soon and will need a home – though the swedes should have been with me on Friday and appear to be missing in the post. I am half-way through the navy bed. After the recent rain it is […]
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