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Squash saplings
We’re starting to run low on beans. We took another 580 grams from the runners and 225 grams from the French on Wednesday, and while there are a few slim pickings left on the runners, the French are [...]

I should have had more faith in the potatoes. I was worried they might have had blight after brown patches appeared on the leaves, and although I suspected those patches might equally have had something to do with slugs or butterflies nibbling them, I wasn’t entirely sure.
So Sunday’s great unveiling was undertaken with some trepidation.
They’ve [...]

With all this wet weather and warmth, the garden is heading for overdrive. I did a little stock-taking tonight, and was pleased to see that the beans are having a mini renaissance, although there’s still not enough there for more than a few plates, and of course the dwarf French beans we planted at the [...]

A busy day in the garden. I mowed the lawn while Rich disposed of the remnants of the unproductive strawberry plants, then we got down to the planting.
The French beans, as I’ve already written here, seem to have thoroughly exhausted themselves, so we bought some dwarf French beans and dug them into the plot, then [...]

No sooner have the broccoli plants started to show some promise, than we have a storm so spectacular the papers are calling it a monsoon. You can see why. Torrential rain that overloaded all the gutters, in which two months’ supply fell in nine hours.
The outcome was as predictable as it was unwelcome. The tallest [...]

Silly to get excited, I know, but I was weeding and watering the garden last night and spotted the first broccoli floret was already forming in the tallest of the broccoli plants (where else).
It’s clearly getting ready to take over from the beans when they’ve finally exhausted themselves.

I’m worries about the beans. They’ve been going great guns, and have so far provided enough veg for five meals. I’m worried about the lack of new growth, though, and in particular the lack of new flowers on the French bean plants, which are starting to look less like veggie vines, and more like an [...]

Potato blight?
I think my potatoes might have blight. The leaves of one crop are starting to turn a bit brown, which I had assumed was down to the hot weather we’ve been having drying them out. A quick hunt around online, and a look through the excellent Grow Your Own Veg, which has become something [...]

Things are plodding along quite happily, as they have been for the last three months, although this week they have certainly taken a turn for the better.
The bathroom is finally being worked on, and although the price has leapt from somewhere in the region of £2500 to £7500 for just one room - fixtures and [...]

Over at the house, the floor was dug up for a whole week as a gas man came to replace all of my pipes, seemingly got bored half way through the job and buggered off for seven days. The new plumbers I’d been talking to about fitting the bathroom took an equally long time to [...]