grainoftruth's Journal

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23 Jun 2008
Flower is out and it's NOT WHITE! Geranium Flowering and Patio Pots garden
A hot pink flower on this Geranium means it overwintered from 2006! Amazing!
Sunny 21°C / 70°F
23 Jun 2008
Fruits are swelling Marrow Fruiting and Back garden
I noticed today that I have the first marrows – well, courgettes actually – I hate marrow! We have three plants and two now have their first fruit. I hadn’t realised that they only set on female flowers. The male flowers don’t have fruit behind them. Watering them most eve...
Sunny 21°C / 70°F
14 Jun 2008
Flowers are forming Marrow Flowering and Back garden
The first of the flowers are opening out. Not sure how long before the fruit starts to swell. Quite a few flowers are forming however – I’m thinking of picking a few early and doing them in tempura batter before deep frying them. Apparently, they’re very good like that.
Sunny 15°C / 59°F
09 Jun 2008
Tiny - but the first fruit is forming! Tomato Fruiting and Back garden
I checked the six plants this evening and the very first fruit is visible. The flowers have been on a couple of the plants even before I put them into the troughs, but the first green blob is now clearly desernable. I’ll leave it until the weekend before I start to put feed in the watering ...
Sunny 18°C / 64°F
31 May 2008
Sown lettuce Sown
31 May 2008
Transplanted Tomato Transplanted
30 May 2008
Planting Out Marrow Planting Out and Back garden
29 May 2008
Sown Sweet Basil Sown
29 May 2008
Transplanted Phormium Transplanted
31 May 2007
Planting Out Geranium Planting Out and Patio Pots garden