Wednesday, July 07, 2004

I dunno, when i *do* finally get around to doing some gardening i forget to blog it!!!

I did manage to get my French beans in (finally) i planted the same last year (Neckar Queen knows whether it will work or not! and also some something Borlotta, i'v chucked the packet now but it is basically a borlotti type bean that you can either grow and eat as a French bean or dry the beans and use as borlotti. Don't know if they will do any good as they really should have been in about a month ago but we'll see.

I also planted (late) some cucumber and a butternut squash, both of which have germinated but are a long way behind the courgettes which i have already started harvesting
courgettes

what the courgettes looked like a couple of weeks ago!


The sweetcorn and runners are also coming along nicely and the garlic is almost ready for harvesting
runners and corn

runners and sweetcorn a couple of weeks ago!


This was the first raspberry to ripen..
raspberry

but we have had quite a few since this was taken


I tidied up the herb beds yesterday. Dug up all last years parsley as it had all gone to seed and discovered, once i'd got rid of the weeds, that some of this years parsley and coriander *had* germinated after all! i also found that i had a dill plant that must have self seeded last year, which was a nice surprise.

I shall try and post some updated photos tomorrow.

Bit of a sad note to finish on but since i last posted we have found two dead frogs in our pond, that makes three in total this year!!! We think it is likely that it is due to this virus as one of the frogs has sores on its legs and looked emaciated the other had haemmoraged(sp?)by the look of it :o( Really hope we don't lose any more.