At the moment I am planting, building, weeding, harvesting, and spreading myself around to ensure everyone gets the attention they need right now. Due to our scorching summer heat the garden is needing extra care to ensure it doesn't frazzle to a crisp like the lawns are doing. After the success of my reclaimed pallet wood planter, I have now got twice as much wood to de-nail after spotting four bins on the side of the road on my way into town last week. There was a nice selection of different bits so I am hoping for another planter and a "food is free" box for up on the street from this lot because the will be lots to share soon.
The sunflowers are growing great guns, they are all a very good height though some flower heads are smaller than others. It will be interesting to see how they end up in the end....ooh, and I have a brilliant idea to stop those pesky birds from eating them before I get a chance to pull them down.
I decided the other night to bandicoot my potatoes just to see what I could nab to put with my tea, not much but the first are always the tastiest! Also cut some fresh fordhook, beans and the first yellow beauty courgette that was big enough to do something with...although many more aren't far behind.
Today I picked the first ripe tomato and the first cob of painted mountain corn, it looked gorgeous...all these pretty blood red ruby coloured kernels. Very glad I planted another lot of seedlings a few days back, they have doubled their growth in just those days of being in.
I also have my garlic stored in a cool, dry spot in the pantry, the peas are thoroughly dried for next season, I harvested some coriander, borage seed and some other bits. I have lots of shallots and more garlic I pulled out today but the are much smaller.
