Garden is flush with tomatoes, on over 50 separate plants, all grown from seed, but only the hanging basket tomato fruits have ripened so far.
Runner beans are dying and I don't know why. We had a harvest yesterday, which we ate, but there are numerous unfertilized flower stems. I am not a runners expert by any means- help. Could it be the drought?
That's a lot of plants, Bert! We only have a few and can barely cope with the output of that.
The Memsahib has been making and freezing tomato pulp.
The beans have been great but are well over now.
We are almost at the winding up stage. Lack of water could well have been the critical factor.
Several of that weird Boletus on the lawn - not edible I fear, a "cracking" species with an odd off-putting aroma.
The lawn has recovered and the place looks positively tidy!!!!
Roger
RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830