Saturday, 6 September 2025

Up early to finish yesterday's work πŸ‚πŸƒπŸ


           Good morning ! 

       Well , the sun is trying to come out . This was at around about 7 am .


I wanted to finish off what I had started yesterday . So I gave these trays a brush down .


Tipped the spent compost from the Tomatoes onto the Keyhole bed and got them folded up and put away ready for next year .
 These plastic pot /bags have been brilliant . This is year four or even maybe five now of growing my tomatoes in these . The Tomato harvest has been great this year also .


  I stood and scratched my head over the sight of one very weedy African Keyhole bed .
It's a "weeding frenzy" job for another day I think , as my Achilles ankle thing is still not up to it .
  For a second year the Butternut Squash were very disappointing . A combination of dreadful compost , then two heatwaves with gales , not having the garden hose fixed up properly .
So I will take off all the surrounding chicken-wire and metal rods , have a good old weeding frenzy  (when the mood comes over me ) , we'll have a big bonfire and I shall dance and chant magic spells and then I will start it all over again with seaweed , grass clippings , spent compost , leaves, shredded sticks , leaves , newspapers and cardboard . ...combination of green and brown , you know how it goes ....
                   Just not today !


 There are only two , small but useable Pumpkins and three pathetic Butternuts  😞

                          We'll not give up . We will do better next year .

                      ⛈️   Make it a great weekend , whatever the weather ☀️

🌿"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile , but , sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy " 🌿    Thich Nhat Hanh   πŸͺ·




3 comments:

  1. I have grown butternut squash for the first time, but I have no idea when they are ready for picking, are you able to help.

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    1. There are lots of different varieties , but they will mostly be just like the ones in the supermarket really . They makes beautiful soup or roasters or a kind of mash which they call pap in South Africa or so Ricardo told me . I have never been , but he has travelled a lot out there with his work . Apparently this mash is very popular out there .I wouldn't know , not ever having travelled further than the Isle of Wight ......I have been on the Woolwich Ferry !

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