Goddamn rain
Well it's cold, it's wet, it's been raining all night....

I couldn't post any of the live performances I found.
I loved the Bangles.
But if all you have to go on is YouTube, they were bloody awful live.

I hope they weren't.

Max ate the first strawberry out of our garden yesterday. Tomorrow we should get the first tomato.

We replanted two of our raised beds about a month ago. We'll probably do the third one this weekend, and maybe spread a bit of cane mulch around too.

we have been eating Asperagoose from our bed ( its been a GOOOOD Asperagoose year !!)
we had the first cucumber just the other day in a salad , soo good !!!

I know it's been said here before, but there's nothing more satisfying than producing your own fruit and veges.

Too true !!

I don't know what's happened, but our zucchini and squash plants have stalled. They're not dead, but they're suddenly not making any more progress either. But right before that we did manage to pick the biggest freaking zucchini I've ever seen. The size of about 3 put together. I put the whole thing into a veggie and chicken soup. It was awesome.

Some plants, like zukes and cukes, when they get a fruit that big send a "mission accomplished" signal and they start to shut down and die. That's why you want to keep picking the fruit and dead-heading flowers. Then the plant sends the "Drat! Curses, foiled again" signal and keeps on producing. It could also be their sheer lack of will or that they really don't like you very much. hard to say.

In ohter news I got a dozen strawberry plants in, and will do about 20 more later today or tomorrow.

Talked to our neighbour this afternoon.
Confessed my strawberry envy.

Turns out, they were growing in wild on her compost heap last year!

She transplanted them into a trough this year and is equally amazed at their growth.
She does have wonderfully green fingers though.


I showed her my little strawb sproutlings and she was gratifyingly impressed. Or pretended to be - she's known me all my life after all. She was amazed that I bought them off eBay and they arrived through the post though. Hey, that'll do.

Awww...I'm so envious of you who can grow stuffs. Rather than a green thumb, I have a brown thumb. Everything I grow dies. :lol:

Welcome Lola!

Just stay away from my strawbs.

Tip for everyone (including me who upended an entire packet of carrot seeds with wild abandon into a single pot): carrots do not take well to being transplanted. They will demonstrate their displeasure by dying.

At a community garden I once gardened at there was a person who was carefully planting radish seeds in little circular clusters. She figured out on her own that was how to plant them, based on seeing bunches of radishes at the store.

Nope, not kidding

Had I ever planted radishes Foot, I would think you were stalking me.

Based on that premise, I guess you'd have to plant carrots, shallots, spring onions and beetroot in circles too!

Wow, I'm glad my garden beds are round!

I will until fruits start coming out. I love strawberries. :D Unless you mean don't help tend them because I will them somehow. :p: