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[CLKD]

Barrels almost re-filled ........ drizzling again!

[CLKD]

Roses!  Everywhere  - I need to get out with some scissors but all the blooms are too high  . 

[Hurdity]

So excited to see my new climbing roses have got buds on even though the shoots are not very tall yet! Also the first tomatoes have now set and even though I was only away for 5 days their side-shoots went completely mad and some even outgrew the lead shoot! Hollyhocks have doubled in size I swear!

Hurdity x

[Elizabethrose]

CLKD, you asked ages ago if I had a photo of my agapanthus. Found one from the year before last when I think I had about 16 blooms with the spiral supports we were discussing. Last year 23, this year it's going to be rubbish as lots of them rotted over winter. Think I may replant the pot with lots of new ones and replant the existing in a smaller pot.

[CLKD]

  [there's clever ;-) ]

[CLKD]

Anyone watch Gardeners World this evening, a real step back in time  - now watching a programme about hippies 

[Mbrown001]

Yes I watched it.

My favourites are Nigel and Nellie.....missed them a bit tonight 

Crazy paving....now that's a blast from the past.

Mrs Brown

[CLKD]

Also the walls made of concrete blocks with holes in  ......... as well as planks on the patio.

[breeze]

First broadbeans and cucumbers this week.

Watering is endless. Not that I do any 

[CLKD]

Raspberries (tart), strawberries (sweet), red currants ( ) ripening ready to pick for breakfast 

[CLKD]

As above  plus white currants ......

[CaroleM]

I'm setting our hens a challenge.  Will they live up to their reputation for being weeding experts!  If nothing, they will have great fun finding out.  Using glyphosate has been suggested for the mare's tail, but we'll go with hen power first.

PollyMarie has volunteered for the front garden tilling.  She enjoys digging out snails, rolling slugs and having a very accurate  spearing of slug by beak  

Have a pain free evening ladies.

[CLKD]

If you have mare's tail  you need pigs! and then take every bit of root out and burn it!

Everywhere is SO dry - out with the hose tomorrow as another hot one is forecast.

[Hurdity]

Our veg garden is burgeoning! We have our usual glut of courgettes ( made lots of soup yesterday), tomatoes already outstripping our ability to eat them fast enough, picking peas, broad beans (nearly finished), mangetout, climbing French beans, beetroot, lettuce, radish, spinach, coriander, and still eating purple sprouting broccoli from one plant of a late variety that gives and gives... I love this time of year feasting on fresh veg!!!

Hurdity x

[dahliagirl]

Did anyone see Gardeners World last week  link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08y6792/gardeners-world-2017-episode-16

It featured a lady called Helen Dillon who had an amazing garden with a collection of many unusual plants but decided to 'downsize'.  She is obviously someone with a great deal of character, and her comments about the juxtaposition of builders and plants which made me grin from ear to ear. 

What she said about tending the garden for 40years and it turning to constant maintenance struck a chord with me.  What she said about being forced to choose which plants to take with her made me think of my entire life.........mindblowing