Weeding onions, lawn treatment

Grass was growing all around the onions. Dealt with by Tamsin whilst I gently mowed and scarified.  So gently I bent the mower handle.  Nothing a hammer can't sort out.

Not a spud master

I explored the winter spuds yesterday.   Four out of nine have not come up. In the process I found a few shoots under a few cm of soil by breaking them off. Oops. I've covered them in domes. Hopefully some TLC will help.   What a fool.   Not my first mistake like this. When dutifully weeding a couple of days after planting them I damaged a couple. They might be the missing ones :(

Yesterday I also attacked a rose whilst Tamsin planted tulips. I beat the rose 5-1.  You couldn't see the yew hedge when I started.

Finally, a big compost rethink today. Made the near-house pile smaller and the far pile bigger to encourage stirring. 

Autumn settling in

Veggies taken out, onions and Christmas spuds in.  Leeks slowly progressing.

Wisteria haircut

St Monty of Don's henchman says cut to six buds through the summer, then two in January/February.

A squash in a cup

A friend offered a special support for our squash. We'll need more soon.

White "Blue banana" (squash) flowers

Disappointing!

It's going to be a squash.

A butternut one.

Why?

Too dry?

Thought I'd killed this

But it seems pretty happy.

Peas!

Lovely lunch

Our garlic, potatoes, courgettes and rosemary makes for a delicious fresh lunch.

Laid hedge

The livestock have asked for the prickly hedge to be trimmed.  Work in progress.  I also completed trimming the backs of the pleached hedges today.

Forgotten plums

Found today, some already over ripe. They were on the cordons.  I think they are "domino" variety. But that may be made up.

Tidying up

Feeling grotty so a slow mow followed by tidying the area in front of the veggies.  Quiet day required!

First courgette

Yay. Still no sign of flowers on the butter squash despite regular feeding and fast growth of the vines.  Patience is a virtue.

Mid July

Click the images to see closer up.  They are not as blurry as they look!

The herbaceous border still growing.

Vegetables.  There is loads of room in the bed so we need to plan more carefully next year.

One of the pots of squashes has been moved to the trellis.

Something for the birds (from Thomas' grandparent's London house).

Abigail's spuds

Monty Don on Gardener's World and my mum have encouraged us to harvest potatoes. I'd resisted, thinking they should wait, but the lure of new potatoes was too great.

Abigail planted them and she dug them up.

Garlic!

The mystery thing surviving in the vegetable garden *was* garlic. Lovely smell.  :)

Squash

The butter nut squash are finally becoming vines.  Much impatience from me, Tamsin keeping me calm.

Courgettes are on the way...

Photos in June

Abigail decided to take some pictures of the garden a couple of days ago.  Here are the results.

Buff Beauty

Rain and growth: bring out the mower

Lots of rain and suddenly everything is growing like crazy. I mowed for the first time since March?

Various photos for the record. Need to eat those salad leaves...