The Potting Shed

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First Rose on 1st June!

Mine are still tight buds

Never mind, you'll be out of your training bra before you know it DM. 

Shurrup!! 

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The "Mile A Minute" Clematis had finished flowering so I cleared it off the arch into the main garden. I chopped it up with the lawnmower as otherwise is is really slow to compost. There was so much it filled the lawnmower hopper FIVE times!

Toms are ready to put into their final big pots, but evrything else is still being slow about growing. Perhaps the ASDA seed compost is far too weak in nutrients?

The mini-cucumbers are rampant though. Fruit should appear in only a few weeks.

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I spent a few hours pricking-out and repotting as the seed compost had run out of nurtrients and everything had stopped growing. A bit more to do today.

The spuds are in flower, even the "lates".

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Carrot germination low so more seeds put in the pots.
Marginal weather here.
Some years loads of large carrots, others little finger sized ones

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My Rose is now in flower & getting battered by the wind & rain 

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The last of the beans have been planted out, and I've been a busy bloke tidying et al.

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Koralik toms put into 2 upside-down planters.

More Marketer Cucumbers planted out.

Started tying-in the mini cucmbers in the greenhose. I have baby cuc's already! 

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Peonie staked as the flowers are huge again. Loads of Stocks planted out.

It got too hot in the greenhouse, but I shall have to go back in to do the final potting of some tomatoes et al. But there is no room for all of them again. 

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Toms and sweet peppers in their final pots now, and a bit more space appeared like magic to accomodate them in the greenhouse. I put Basil in with each tomato plant as they are supposed to egg each other on a bit.

White strawberry plants repotted, plus oregano. I gave the thyme a haircut to encourage side shoots, ditto the oregano from the first sowing.

I have lost 2 more spud plants to what I suspect is Cockchafer grubs that can live up top 5 years in the soil. The only way to kill them off nowadays is by very expensive nematodes, as the EU banned the only pesticide that affected them (and was always considered safe).

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Peonie staked as the flowers are huge again. Loads of Stocks planted out.

Wow, the Peonies in Paul's garden finished weeks ago!

The Bee's are loving my Snapdragons

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The Kiwis are flowering, and the grapes will be in flower within days if it stays warm.

The carrots are really struggling. 

[fred]

first new spuds up for tomorrow lunch

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I bought 6 shrubs for £6 a good few months back. Couldn't remember what they were so had to google the flower I found in the garden the other day. It's a Hardy Gloxinia, lovely 

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We're eating cucumbers from the greenhouse now.... I reckon 1 a day for the rest of the summer.

3 more spud plants destroyed by what I suspect is Cockchafer grub damage.

Kiwi fruits are swelling as the rest of the vine goes bonkers in this heat.

I need to tidy up the grenhouse and get more chillis in their final pots, but it's so darned hot in there even with the door and window open.

It's a regular thing to soak the garden every evening in this heat.

Strawberries galore!!!

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Courgettes planted in the finished compost container. Chillis planted up and put into the chilliarium.

I've moved the excess toms outsdie so they can get used to the nasty weather (  ) then I can give them away.

It was 42c in the greenhouse! I was soaked in sweat.