Tuesday, 18-07-23

 Good morning, everyone.  The sun is still shining and, while yesterday the Beeb predicted a bit of rain, today it is saying sunny intervals and a gentle breeze.  We still need rain but it sounds good, nonetheless.

Two garden photos . . .

This is number two courgette, the one in a pot.  Quite apart from the fact that it is earning it's space in terms of veg, I think it just looks really good there as a sculptural sort of plant.  I really must try this one again next year, assuming the seeds play ball again.

By the way, I cut two courgettes from plant no. 1 on Sunday and had them sliced and spray fried - delicious!

This does my heart good.

The sungolds are starting to ripen.  This was Dad's all time favourite tomato and he always had several plants on the go.  I just have the one but it's looking very productive.

There are other plants ripening too but two of them have blossom end rot which is annoying.  I'm sure I am not overwatering them - I've been very careful about that - but I have read up about it on the RHS site and it suggests irregular watering so maybe I should water little and often a bit more consistently.
It also suggests calcium deficiency but says is is very rare for potting soils to lack calcium.

So, from now on, unless it is actually raining (or has been raining), it's watering late morning and a bit early evening for me (or, rather, for the tomatoes!).  

Can you advise anything else?

And here endeth today's lesson!

I ploughed through my list of Things to Do yesterday, having decided to move the two things that required me to go out to today.

So I . . .

Changed the sheets

Did three loads of whites/lights (that does include the sheets and the kitchen cloths as well as clothes and towels).

Dried them all outside.

Did all the ironing and got it all put away - three cheers!

Emailed the National Trust re changing my payment.

Audited the chest freezer - which didn't take very long but I am glad to have an up to date list now.  There's no need to do the upright one because there's not much left in it although I think now I can more some of that over to the chest freezer.  I'm on track to have that empty by Autumn.

Did a bit of weeding, etc.

A good day's pottering, I think.

Today is another empty day apart from those two things I need to go out for.  I need to work on the food/meal plans for next week and I have one load of darks to wash although they could wait - there's not loads.
So maybe I will go out for a walk this afternoon - that would be nice.  What do you like to do when the diary is empty - or is that an unknown thing?

Have a great day.  xx