Beach/Cliff and Wildwood
Went for a stroll on the beach before going to Wildwood in kent where I saw wild bore the size of sofas, wolves, red squirrel, pine martins, deer, wild horses, beavers and the list goes on.
Went to a Viking funeral
Spent the evening at broadstairs on the beach for a viking funeral re-enactment. This involved waiting around whilst listening to the gladiator soundtrack on loud speaker, and then a group of viking clad men lowing a warrior into a petrol soaked ship and firing lighted arrows at it. Good fireworks included afterwards. ??
Dartford Crossing
I love this bridge. The m25 is so boring and then BAM a bridge with views and then toll fee and back to boring motorway.
Blackbird nest
Found a baby bird calling on the ground so we searched for a nest and found it in a honeysuckle. Can hear them calling as I type.
Tomatoes appearing
The tomatoes are just starting to fruit. Tomatoes are such a time consuming crop. After all that work; careful sowing, potting on, watering and some feeding they are only just starting to fruit. Next year I'm going to grow a heirloom variety after some repairs to the old greenhouse.
The courgettes, yellow and green varieties, look good. The first crop, I think, will produce around ten courgettes. A few to store and a few to give away. Strawberries are coming along. Something kept eating them so I made a fruit cage. I picked some broad beans today. An autumn variety called aquadulce claudia. I sowed them last November, and I'm really impressed they survived all the snow we had. They were, during bad weather, practically covered with snow/ice for two weeks.
Long day at the allotment
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Despite having a cold, and the house boiler deciding to pee everywhere, and having to fix a sodding blasted windows machine, I got a lot done on the allotment.
- I caught up on weeding. I can see onions now.
- Cut back the hops. Everyday I visit they have up to 10 new useless bines. See video to see how big they are.
- Planted some spare peas and beans my neighbour gave me.
- Cut the grass with the mower and strimmer. Made the plot look tidy and grass cuttings composted for nitrogen.
- The strawberry runners I potted and pinned down have rooted.??
- Watered at 10pm.
I did have a whole video, but I got gstreamer errors on pitivi.
Rainy day and strawberry runners
Went to the allotment today. It's nice to work in the rain for a change, I dont have to water the garden.
Found two strawberry runners starting to form so I pinned them down ready for rooting. I have never tried pinning them down, last year I left them alone and I got three plants from six or five.
The variety is Elsanta. We got them last year to replace my granddads strawberry patch which disappeared somewhere. When I was little I would go pick them. He had the same strawberries for years, I don't know what the variety was but, I remember him pulling out runners and fitting them into a line.
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A few other pictures.
French beans are in. Courgettes wont be long. Gerkins getting bigger.
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I had 3 or 4 melons but they got eaten! This is the last tiny sad melon.
Quick allotment update
Been watering in the allotment. Everything dried up. Runner beans needed weeding too.??
The old greenhouse??tomatoes have flowers. It can't be too long till they fruit.
The 2nd picture is??French??beans, the yin yang beans I sowed last month. ??
It's very, very, very hot in the new greenhouse (3rd picture). (Don't look Arna :P)??
The 4th picture is of my??gherkins.??
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