What have you done today in the Garden?

I harvested radish and ruccola seeds. I sifted compost and prepared a bed for beets. I planted carrots and radishes. I weeded and mulched. I harvested courgettes raspberries strawberries and radishes. The beans will start to be harvested in a couple of days. Will be a bumper crop.

My tomatoes are all volunteer plants from the compost pile. I have not too much idea what all the varieties are yet. My goal with this is to choose the hardiest to make seeds with. I am constantly cloning them and will put the clones in a tunnel. The First fruits are starting to form.


I am going to have true seed potatoes again this year and lots of them. They are Spunta, the sort that grows best here.


Beans, I have already planted 7 times so far and I will plant lots more at the new moon.


I have 15 courgette plants. I will plant more too. Sorry the picture doesn‘t show them all.

 

Your garden looks prodigious Odif.

 

starting to produce in quantity too now. Yesterday we had a welcome 21mm of rain, then the sun came out and I was off weeding strawberry beds until it got too dark to see. I harvested carrots. Lots of my plants were sleeping after the rain, I.e. they were flattened. Let’s hope they are standing upright today. The beans should be harvestable.

 

Toni, I simply could not like all that heat in your post. We had extreme heat for what seemed like forever. Then a couple of days ago, I walked out into utter bliss, cooling breezes. I hope you get some relief soon.

Doghouse, sweet Tea House and a Jukebox ! WOW

Odif, what is it you use for mulch? We used straw and it's full of seed. I think I would like to try a different mulch.
I also have lots of volunteer tomatoes. I cannot toss a plant away.

 

@Growingpains I use anything for mulch, grass clippings or woodchips or freshly pulled weeds.

 

Odif, looking at your garden, I thought the mulch looked like a light brown, dried grass, or something like that. Thank you!

 

@Growingpains yes around the zucchini lawn cuttings then left to dry out for a few days then mulched with. No seeds.

 

I'm thinking of using dead leaves after they have been mulched with the lawnmower.

 

Good idea growing pains

 

I went out and checked the potatoes, today. I will probably harvest the Yukons tomorrow, if the thunderstorms hold off. I actually have a tomato-y fruit on it. I never had one on potatoes before so I had to look it up...and of course it's poisonous. Apparently it got it because of the cool wet weather we've been having. Interesting, I've never had potatoes get them.

 

@Willowisp0801 the fruit on your potato contains the seeds. Keep this to plant seeds next year. Consider yourself lucky.

Here is a link that I wrote about this Subject .https://www.gardenstew.com/threads/potatoes-from-seed-to-table.38571/

 

Oh yeah, Odif-- That's what I'm talkin' about. That garden of yours is is looking sooooo good, mate.
The toms and beans are speaking to me. haha. Those are two of my staple veggies each year.

We mowed the grass paths and strimmed the edges as well as all other places that required shortening. We schoffeled the whole of both gardens. It is always amazing what weeds do after a couple of days of rainfall. We harvested beans and purple sprouting broccoli. Here are a few pics of the PSB in situ:






The paths were not all that got a haircut---I did as well. My Bride brought her hair-clipping kit and worked her magic. She also showed her sis how it was done and then her sis clipped her own man's hair and those two then decided to get one of those little hair-cutting kits as well.

We also cleaned-up the two strawb beds: We removed the netting and ribs and weeded the patches and then removed most of the plants' leaves.


We harvested some beetroot and were eyeing the Swiss chard, but decided to leave it another couple of days.
The toms are beginning to take on a yellowish tint--red is on the way.
We had a visit from the "spud cops" and they found one suspect leaf on our spuds. We removed it then and there and decided to harvest the remainder of the spuds in a couple of days, thus removing the threat to fellow gardeners. Sometimes we just remove the foliage, and would have this time had there been more infected leaves.
Things are beginning to roll now. We can begin the Food Bank deliveries again soon.

 

Today weeding and harvesting.

 

I had to make adjustments to the peanut butter bird feeder on one of the pergola posts. I only put a new jar in it a few days ago and half of it has gone already. I've been blaming the starling, but my wife noticed early tghis morning that a wood pigeon had been able to get at it by standing on the roof of the little house below it. So I lowered the feeder so there's no room for a pigeon to stand on the roof and get at the feeder.

 

Those lily's look happy.
Which Clematis is that I see growing between the lily's ?