Another lovely sunny day ! Pleased with myself for cutting and trimming up some hazel branches for next years bean poles . My Runner beans were a total disaster this year ,but I won't give up , I will try again next year .
The sun shining through the greenhouse this morning .
I am keeping a very close eye on the Dwarf French beans in there . They seem to grow a couple of inches over night .
The thing is , if this works and I get a nice lot of beans , then I will do it again next year and sow even more bean seeds .
I'm wondering if maybe I should just bring the sowing date forward by a week or two might just make the difference .
If we have a couple more weeks with some sunny days and not too cold at night , I should have some success .
I'm not doing much today , my fingers and my elbow aches after cutting wood yesterday .
The big ratchet loppers sprung back on my head yesterday . I think I am going to have a bruise between my ear and cheek bone . It really hurt , made me cry and I couldn't open and close my jaw for a while , but it's o.k now .
I need to give the greenhouse windows a bit of a clean !
Oh ! One of the Sweet Peppers is changing colour !
Very pleased with these Sweet Peppers from saved seed too !
We also have some Sweet Peppers outside in the Veg Trug with one or two Peppers on . Not so productive as the ones in the greenhouse , they had been a couple of left overs or spares .
The interesting thing about these "outside " Sweet Peppers is that where they have flopped over in the wind ,they are putting out fresh and strong new shoots . Something for me to bear in mind when I grow these next year . If I had pulled them down like this earlier in the year , I might have had much bigger , stronger and more productive plants .
I tried over -wintering Peppers last year not very successfully . Maybe I'll try again with these . What do you think ?
So I pottered about in the greenhouse for a while , noticing that all the South African things are waking up again . The bulbils that had fallen off my largest Pregnant Onion plant and that I had potted up last year are growing fast !
Another one has flowers on the way !
.....and this is the big mumma one ....with more babies that are ready to be potted up ...would you like one ?
Veltheimia bracteata from seed I sowed last year looking lovely .
A very weird and rare pelargonium , which my brother Martin gave me ....which looks like a dead stick all year and then comes to life again in the Autumn .
Tylecodon wallichii ...also known as The Pegleg Butterbush .
This is another South African , South Namibian thing that remains dormant through our Summer months and wakes up in the Autumn .
So this is the insulation foil stuff that I throw over and along the greenhouse rafters .
And this is the candle lantern , still tucked away under the bench , but ready to pull out and put into use if a particularly cold night is forecast .
Candles are in a tin indoors at the moment .
Enough pottering about .
Turned out really scrumptious - doodly !
Marie " Thankyou for this delicious recipe ! "
For this recipe and she has so many more lovely recipes follow this link -
https://www.theenglishkitchen.co/2021/02/bundt-pan-roast-chicken.html
Yum yum yum !
Then , off for a lovely walk around Goonhilly .
The sun is still shining . Hope you are having a beautiful weekend and able to find a little time for yourself .
xxx
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