Gardening and Other Horticulture

Having not posted on my blog much recently, I must apologise but I have been up to my eyes with web work and things. I'm almost starting to recover now from our holiday and catching up with a few things - well not quite so overloaded.

Minimal time has been spent in the garden this year - much of the work in late spring has had to carry through to now. The vegetable garden had mixed results:

- Rasberries / Strawberries - new section, went well but all fruit eaten by something, the strawberries are sending out runners so need to do something with them other than mow them
- Runner beans - worst ever year - probably not picked enough when we were away and has been too dry for them - and they caught rust again - despite the fact I changed all the poles and things
- Red Cabbages - grew really well but were just holes by the end of August with masses of caterpillars on it so pulled them out
- Potatoes - very good
- Onions - I think they've grown well but are now covered in weeds - whoops
- Peas - very good will be expanded
- Artichoke - good but waste of time takes too much room up
- Carrots - good again in their pots
Greenhouse
- Cucumbers - not very good at all for some reason
- Tomatoes - best year in ages - no blight this year so the cleaning worked - and the diligence of opening the greenhouse
- Peppers - best ever but still quite small peppers - only green ones

The lawn has been looking fabulous - but very brown now.

Anyway, I finally got round to pruning the fir trees in the back of the garden - cut down half in size - I didn't realise until I went in the shower that i'd shredded my arms and legs and were burning. Had to laugh - there will be quite a difference when I've finished - I couldn't do a few as didn't fancy balancing at the top of a ladder with the chainsaw.