Love the look of your calabrese - something we struggle with on our site, that and caulis. Am hoping to pick a few broad beans later in the week when I have a 2 day visit planned. However, the complete lack of rain for goodness knows how long means things have really slowed up on our plot. I should have peas to pick....but with no rain, I don't know if the pods will ever swell. It is great to start harvesting though. Like you, we are being piggies with the strawbs and I am making scones and we are having them with strawbs and cream. YUM!
GLENDA--I'm glad that you liked the posting. How nice that you have Dooley so close by. That meal sounded very tasty. Thanks EJ-- I like calabrese so much, I wish that I had more room to grow more of it. What kind of probs do you have on your lottie with brassicas I do hope that your broadies will be ready for picking later on in the week. It´s been way too dry over here too. I have to give water to some plants now every other day. My peas are coming along ok, but they get water as well. I have more peas working for me this year than ever before. I just hope that they make it. I have such a prob with watering--if I don´t water the veggies suffer. If I do water the veg, then the moles come in the night and disrupt the roots and push the plants out of the ground. It´s a never-ending battle: me and the moles. OMG!-- Skones. Couldn´t I go for some of those now. I had some really good ones over there once. It was in a small eating place up on a cliff where the cliff walls were red and white...in the Norfolk area, I believe. Hunstanton, or sommink. Pigging-out on fresh strawbs is the sport at the moment.
Sjoerd, Do you know a mole cure? I have a castor bean plant in one bed now, someone said they chase moles out?????? b
I've never heard of that one, B--I wish I knew if it worked for sure. I shall have to look up the castor bean. I do not know that name.
Your harvest looks absolutely delicious and that last photo of yours is simply mouth-watering Me thinks you are pulling our legs about the funny shaped mug though but with your great sense of humour we wouldn't expect anything less
Heh heh heh GG-- there's no pulling the wool over YOUR eyes, is there. Glad that you liked the pics. I am glad that your raised bed plot is doing so well this year. Let me know how those castor beans work against the moles, B...would you?
We are now getting yellow squash. The peas, lettuce, radishes, spinach arugula, are long gone, so now its squash, kale, green onions. The soil is drying due to lack of rinfall. The rain barrels are empty. It will be city water until we get more rain. Awful hot, so we may get thunder storms. The green beans are tiny, tomatoes are plentiful, but far from ripe. A lady I know ate a ripe tomato from one of her two plants on the 4th of July. I am fascinated by the different veggies each of you grow.
GP--It sounds like you are having it as dry as we are--a strange thing in Nederland. The water in our canals is getting stagnant due to lack of rainfall, so I do not trust it to use on veg. I have a tiny bit of rainwater and I use that for my shade garden. B-sew--Thanks. Tell me about your new hose.
