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19 Aug 200919th August 2009 Back garden , Chilli Pepper Transplanted, Sweet Pepper Transplanted, and Basil TransplantedWhat a scorcher today! I just transplanted a few potted plants into the ground today as we are going on holiday for 10 days and if the weather continues like this they will die. Annoyingly my tomatoes have just started to ripen and I bet they will all turn red while we are away!Sunny 29°C / 84°F
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08 Aug 20098th August 2009 Back garden , Chilli Pepper Purchased, Sweet Pepper Purchased, and Strawberry Red & White Mixed Planting OutToday I bought 2 new plants: a chilli pepper and a sweet pepper. They already have some fruit on them so I’m hoping for some sunny days to ripen them. I have planted some sweet pepper seeds but they haven’t germinated. I also bought some smaller chilli plants earlier in the year, w...23°C / 73°F
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06 Aug 20096th August 2009 Tomato Treating and Pea 'Sugar Snap' Planting OutI have planted out the sugar snap peas with a wigwam made of canes for them to climb up. They seem to be responding well. The tomato plants had white spots appearing all over the leaves. A quick online search suggested it may have been powdery mildew. I have pruned all the affected leaves, whi...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
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19 Jul 200919 July 2009 Potato 'Belle de Fontenay' Harvesting and Salad Leaves - Niche MixedI harvested my second set of potatoes and cleared out one container to resow some new salad leaves. Anything sown in beds is doomed one way or the other – slugs or cats.Cloudy 20°C / 68°F
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04 Jul 2009Harvested Garlic Back garden , Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' Harvesting, Garlic 'Iberian Wight' Harvesting, Garlic 'Solent Wig...26°C / 79°F
Today I harvested my garlic as it was starting to droop over and go yellow. It is currently drying out in the sunshine. Later on I will hang it in the shed and in a couple of weeks when it has dried out I will be attempting to plait it.
I have harvested enough to last for absolutely ages with s...
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28 Jun 200928th June 2009 Back garden , Leeks Transplanted, Salad Leaves - Bright and Spicy Sown, Pea 'Sugar Snap' Sown, Sweet Pepper...Yesterday I transplanted some leeks into the space created by the beetroot harvest, kindly given to me by a lady from freecycle. Today I sowed some more salad, peppers and sugar snap peas. So far only one pea from the last sowing has germinated. It’s about 4 inches tall now, tucked behind...24°C / 75°F
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26 Jun 200926 June 2009 Back garden , Potato 'Belle de Fontenay' Harvesting, Potato 'Belle de Fontenay' Flowering, Tomato Flowering...The first batch of potatoes were flowering so I pulled them up. I think it was a bit early as there were quite a few potatoes that were too small to be useful. I also harvested my beetroot, but only 2/4 were edible – one had been eaten halfway through by something (a slug?) and one hadn&#...21°C / 70°F
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13 Jun 200913th June 2009 Back garden , Chilli Pepper Planting Out, Basil Planting Out, Rosemary Sown, Tomato Flowering, Little gem H...Today I got the fright of my life when I discovered a toad hiding in my potato plants! I don’t know where he came from as none of the gardens around here have a pond! My salads are ready to harvest and we will be sampling some for dinner tonight!Sunny 22°C / 72°F
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07 Jun 20097th June 2009 Back garden , Tomato Budding, Salad Leaves - Niche Mixed Sprouting, Thyme Flowering, Chilli Pepper Budding,...Just a short stint in the garden this morning. I tied in the tomato plants and pinched them out. Some flower buds are starting to form. The salads I sowed last weekend have started sprouting already. I have sowed some more sugar snap peas as the last lot all died after being attacked by slugs...Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
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30 May 200930th May 2009 Back garden , Chocolate Peppermint Planting Out, Tomato Fruiting, Cuban Lily Flowering, and Thyme Planting OutI tried out my new soil sieve today. It is excellent! My soil is very stony and using the sieve is so much easier than picking the stones out by hand. It will also come in handy for sieving my compost when it is ready. All the seedlings in the growhouse are completely dead. The weather has be...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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