Sunday 25 July 2021

Garden update

 After posting today's blog, I popped back into the garden to take some photos.  It's very dull so quality is not great but you'll get the idea.







They may be out of focus but they're still starting to ripen'



The first time I've grown these.  They're called Floridity and I had two plants but lost one down the allotment.
(ooops, focus again)



Next year's new strawberry plants!



But this year's are still producing which is rather nice.  




Several of them too.  I'll take that!




A goodly number of blueberries to pick.



Several baby cucumbers



Let's play 'spot the cucumbers'.




The new 'Flamenco' apple seems to be happy enough.  One apple fell in the June drop (in July!) and the others seem a bit crowded.  I should have thinned them but didn't have the heart first year.  Next year, when there are more, I will.




With the gardener's eye of faith, here's green beans at the end of next month, all being well.  French beans next to my back doorstep - how continental.






The hosta is very snail nibbled but the flowers are good this year.





This is always a picture, year after year after year.



Finally, the new fountain bamboo seems very happy.  The other bamboo, the black stemmed one, is slower growing but also doing well.  

10 comments:

  1. Love to you Joy, I’ve just caught up with all the news from your blog. Love your frilly discharge’s on here and you could just about open your own farm shop! Hope you have a peaceful day x

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  2. Frilly discharges…. I means fuschias - trying blogworld on my new iPad and I’m not very good yet haha

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    1. LOL - I was just about to post 'What's a frilly discharge'! Fuchsias are lovely flowers, I think.

      Lovely to hear from you again. xx

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  3. Wow! Your garden looks wonderful. All those yummy berries...I have been picking blackberries, here. They are so plump and sweet. I love summertime.

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    1. It's a bit early for blackberries here but the raspberries have been good, judging by what I see in the other allotments. Ours are autumn fruiting. There seems to be plenty of baby blackberries showing though.
      xx

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  4. Great photos. Everything looks very prolific.

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    1. Thanks, Chris. It's all going nicely at the moment.
      xx

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  5. I'm envious of your strawberries. Mine have done well this year but they don't seem to have any runners. Perhaps it's time to replace some of them. X

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    1. Possibly it is. These are new plants and they certainly are aiming to repopulate the garden! Or perhaps they are later to send out runners - You'll know by the end of next month.
      I'm glad your crop was good. Mine wasn't great this year but as it's first year I wasn't really expecting it to be amazing.
      xx

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  6. Your garden is looking very good and fruitful and those runners will make nice replacement plants.

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