Brassicas 🌱🌱🌱🌱 update

Up and out at 4.30 am to watch the sun rise .

 

 It's forecast to be sunshine all day , so I wanted to get the vegetable garden watered early .

In the shed I have been shifting everything around to make space on the bench for the big batch of mixed brassica seedlings that I'll be pricking out and potting up later on .

 

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All my seeds are germinating now except the Beetroot ...hmmm .... 🤔The last wave of Beetroots are outside in the ground and doing really well . This second lot are from the same seed packet so they should be alright .

  It's only been four days since I sowed them , so I'm sure they'll be up soon .

I might prick some of them out later on ....see how I feel ....maybe I'll do this tomorrow .

        Pots all ready to go !

Some nice Romaine lettuce leaves ready to pick . The other mixed lettuces in the background have been slow due to the heatwave last week . 

 I think we have a couple more tubs of new potatoes . These have done really well this year . Delicious !

I have really got to work hard to keep everything well watered . We are forecast another longer spell of hot weather and it is going to be hot today .

  My water barrels are empty !  Got to take the hose up there to fill the watering cans .

After I've done some laundry and got it out on the line and lunch prepared ......

   ......I'm going to sit in the shade and do some patchwork today .

                               See you later alligator !

                                            Peace and Love 🕊️

                                                    Debbie 💐x

 

First Courgettes of the Season !

                     Started picking our Courgettes today .

                               Hooray !   😊🌿🌤️

White Rabbits ! 🐰The first of the month !🐰

                                      Sauromatum venosum 

This years flower was smashed by the recent gales , but it is starting to put up a leaf now . Also I can see several new shoots coming up around the "mother "plant .

Which is great , because at the end of the season , I can pull them out and send a couple to my botanical brother up country . 

                                            Amorphophallus konjac 
                          This one , also ,was demolished by the gales .

I did have another rare variety of Voodoo Lily but my husband threw several of my plants over the Cornish hedge , thinking they were dead or that there was nothing in the pot .

Sigh ...... they go dormant through the Winter ....I tried to explain this to him ..... ...climbing up on the Cornish hedge I managed reach over and retrieve a couple of them .....but could not find the other really rare (and expensive ) one in amongst brambles nettles and sloe bushes .

                          I'd like to throw him over the Cornish hedge !!

Brassica seed - update 

You may remember I sowed a variety of brassica seeds on Monday .

                             So the race is on !

      .......and of course it's the Greyhound Cabbage seeds coming in first ! 🌿

A bit of flower arranging -

          Flowers from our garden , red , white and blue .

                                          Feeling patriotic  !   

                                               ❤️🤍💙

                               

                                               ❤️🤍💙   

                           Peace and Love  🕊️🌿

                                                      Debbie x