Finally, after nothing; two butternuts. The larger one is nearly ripe and will be sitting on the window sill.
Three little maids are we
Other than the sweet dumpling, there are two other small pumpkin vines. The hooligan pumpkin is a hybrid, and that is probably why it is noticeably bigger than the jack be little. I had anticipated the jack be little to be a little bigger. No pun intended. Ma has them in her hand, and they are like small oranges.
Spuds. Sorted and assessed
Ma said she would sort out the spuds and she did. Graded them as per a mama’s nature.
Ma assures me we can still use the ‘bad’ ones. They only have only have holes in, after all.
Etch a sketch thing
This is the entire plot, etched out. This is not to scale, but a representation of how the land lies.
Project othello has seven beds of varying sizes. They are all roughly rectangular with a path for wheel barrow access. The sukh shaanti garden remains largely the same.
Turn, Bruno, turn
Bruno the ghost rider is turning, gradually. Tinges of orange starting to appear.
Is a Bonny beast. At 4 and a half pound, slightly smaller than expected. But still good! Has four weeks before All Hallows’ eve, before mama curries it.
Taking a leek, know your onions
Sown in the classroom, were some leeks and onions.
Today, these were moved to the Wendy house. Purely as they were looking a little unloved. Sadly, I don’t get to talk to a lot these days. The babies are starting to lol over a bit.
These are a second sowing of leeks. Onions have never been sown before, so are an experiment. Stashed in the Wendy house, I am hoping to sow more onions. Not many have come through; which is disappointing.
Yours in anticipation,
Horticultural Hobbit.
Protected: Red Nigel
Protected: Drop of lemon
peppered
Found in the poly tunnel. A fair few purple beauty peppers and a handful for tiny sweet peppers. Am watching the polytunnel carefully, to see when the many peppers and chillies start to cease to exist. there are a couple of long red marconi in there, starting to turn red. The hot patio sizzle are still yellow, and not interested in changing.
Sunfloo’ers 2012
There have been episodes this week of mama nature having a bit of wind and throwing a few gusts around. That had meant that a few sunflowers were a bit askew, and had to be righted. Sadly, one batch found themselves keeled over and the stem had split in two. It seemed kinder to take it down. Mama H harvested a few of the blooms and it’s sat on her window sill.
horticultural 'obbit 