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Post by balc2 on Aug 1, 2024 19:56:32 GMT
I'm still planning on going up to our son's house early tomorrow morning. It doesn't look, for the moment at least, that we are going to have the heavy showers that were forecast yesterday for today & again this morning.
When my son & his family get home I expect the last thing (or desire) he will want to do is to go out & water his plants in the mid afternoon heat! We are still forecast up to 27C tomorrow.
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Post by grindle on Aug 2, 2024 1:45:01 GMT
spent the day at Sue's had a good walk round her garden seeing things growing well and recent changes
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Post by SueA on Aug 2, 2024 18:41:50 GMT
Picked some tomatoes from the greenhouse & made a panzanella salad with them & planted out some seeds grown rudbeckias & cosmos plants into the borders.
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Post by grindle on Aug 3, 2024 2:18:41 GMT
another non gardening day, busy morning and a visit round a neighbour's garden in the afternoon
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Post by balc2 on Aug 3, 2024 5:32:57 GMT
Morning all 👋 What is a panzanella salad, SueA? Yesterday I went to my son's house for the last time this week and gave all his pots a good soaking as Thursday's rain never arrived. I also gave mine a good watering as well.
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Post by geumgrower on Aug 3, 2024 15:26:53 GMT
Watering, weeding, dead heading, seed sowing, wandering.
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Post by SueA on Aug 3, 2024 19:22:50 GMT
Panzanella is basically a tomato & bread salad balc2. You tear or cut some bread such as sourdough or ciabatta into little pieces & toast them for a few minutes with some olive oil & mix with halved cherry tomatoes & dress with olive oil, red wine vinegar & chopped garlic. You can add whatever else you want such as chopped onion, cucumber etc. It brings out the flavour of home grown tomatoes really well! Only watering duties today.
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Post by grindle on Aug 4, 2024 2:51:14 GMT
cut the grass, watered all the pots and containers and in the greenhouse
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Post by Andrew on Aug 4, 2024 10:49:43 GMT
Picked some fresh pea's and beans for dinner and beetroot for tea this morning. Will hopefully pick some spring onions and lettuce later as well. I love this time of year when there's plenty of fresh produce to pick and eat in the garden. Food tastes so much better when it's fresh out of the garden.
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Post by geumgrower on Aug 4, 2024 11:17:22 GMT
It has just taken me over 2 hours to remove the automatic non-functioning window opener and replace it with a standard old fashioned one. Had to dismantle parts of the greenhouse to do it. Agony from my neck and shoulders now.
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Post by SueA on Aug 4, 2024 18:42:41 GMT
Lifted some Charlotte potatoes from a tub & picked some more tomatoes from the greenhouse, other than that just fed & watered the tomatoes & cucumbers.
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Post by balc2 on Aug 4, 2024 19:51:20 GMT
Thanks very much, SueA , for the panzanella salad explanation! Sounds delicious!
Today I've only watered the majority of the pots on the balcony as I didn't get around to doing them yesterday. instead I replanted the dwarf tomatoes in a shallow pot into a half bag of compost. I had underestimated their growth as I'd not grown them before, well, not on the balcony at least, though I did grow a few plants on the allotment I used to have a few years go. I've just remembered I also grew some in hanging baskets quite a few years ago as well.
A week ago I bought the bag of compost but between one thing & another I didn't get around to doing it. (Perhaps because it was just too hot to do anything else other than watering & deadheading due to the heatwave! 3 days we reached 28-29C! I also had to go up to my son's house to water his pots as he was on holiday all last week, in the Med, of all places!) Although it wasn't easy, I did manage to get the plants out of the pot without breaking any of them! Quite a feat really because one of them was MUCH taller than the other two! The tall one has now been tied to a length of string that hangs down from a horizontal wire that stretches along the majority of the balcony. All the tomato plants look happier now, even the 3 self-sown ones I put in a bag of compost laid horizontally on the balcony floor. I even have lots of baby toms growing!
This is the one I had to tie up after I had transferred the pot of plants to the 1/2 bag of compost.
This is how the tomato plants looked earlier in the day, the tall one is the one I had to tie to a piece of string later after transferring the shallower pot into the 1/2 bag of compost standing vertically on the balcony floor.
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Post by grindle on Aug 5, 2024 4:12:52 GMT
all looking happy in their new home now balc2 I finally bit the bullet and started attacking the shed, it had got so bad I couldn't walk to the back, most of it is now sorted out apart from loads of paint tins which I will have to sort through and get rid of the ones that aren't going to be used again, I've been putting things in plastic storage boxes with lids and labeling them so I don't have to hunt round for things. I'll get some more today to continue the tidy up
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Post by balc2 on Aug 5, 2024 5:18:31 GMT
That's a job well done, grindle! 👏👏👏 I try to keep my things a bit organised but occasionally they do need sorting & reorganising from time to time as well. I think today I will be mostly watering & deadheading. The petunias & Morning Glories produce so many flowers that if I don't do it almost every day they will end up overwhelmeing me!
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Post by geumgrower on Aug 5, 2024 12:50:35 GMT
Began to prune back a very overgrown Viburnum tinus, only to find that there was a nice V. Charis mixed up with it. We will have to find a new home for that. Had to stop as I suddenly felt very, very ill. Labyrinthitis attack. Dizziness, deafness, tinnitus and feeling very sick and incredibly hot. Tablets taken and the gardening abandoned.
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