August has been a very good month, lots of warm Sunshine, hot days, and short sharp heavy bursts of rain.. Though in the beginning of August we did have three days of solid rain..
This has been good for our growing crops, but also ideal conditions for our main enemy~ The Weeds!.. whose relentless battle goes on and on..
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Now I have no problem with weeds, they are all beautiful in their own right, but some are just so invasive and spring up like a carpet, choking and taking nutrients from the crops. The plots are full of them
We had several weeks of redecorating our home, so the plot was neglected apart from watering in the heatwave every morning.
This beautiful weather ideal for our Sweetcorn which has grown to the size of me now, and it has some lovely huge cobs just about ready for harvest.
We have enjoyed strawberries right up into the middle of July, when this next picture was taken. While the early Raspberry canes are now finished, our late raspberries are just beginning to ripen and I have already had three such punnets off, with lots left to ripen.
We have had some lovely tasty new first early potatoes these were called Foremost we planted three rows of earlies and six rows of the main crop, which are Picasso Below you see hubby who yesterday weeded out the rows as the tops had died down, though he is not digging them out yet until the end of Sept, as everything seems to be about a month in front of itself this year, probably due to the mild Spring.
Above you can see the onions drying out in our home greenhouse, in the middle on the bottom shelf are tulip bulbs from our home garden, I dug up and dried out ready for replanting in the Autumn. On the right these are shallots which can either be used for pickles or I like to add in stews.
My Dahlia’s and Gladioli’s have been lovely again this year and they are still producing lots of bloom
Inside the Allotment green house we have yellow tomatoes ripening and we have fallen in love with these Crystal Lemon Cucumbers
Well that is what is happening on the Plot this month, I will leave you with some busy lizzie plants on our patio.
Until next time
Happy Gardening!
oh my goodness Sue……you are having such a beautiful harvest. it must feel so very good to to eat food that came from your own garden. so happy all your hard work is paying off. 🙂
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Dear Wendi, many thanks, we do enjoy our fresh veggies and fruits, and worth all the effort. It is tiring, especially while it’s been so warm here, but satisfying when we step back and look at what we cleared out. It got really overgrown while we were busy decorating. Hope you are well also.. Sending Huge hugs and much love Wendi ❤
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thank you so very much Sue, for sharing part of your life with us……..it is so much fun to see all that you are doing and working at healing so I can do some of that stuff too! 🙂 love and more love!
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I spent the best part of three hours in the plot this morning Wendi.. It’s surprising how even though it is tiring, just how rejuvenated you feel as you place your hands in Mother Earth. 🙂 So pleased you enjoy my garden blog so much.. 🙂 And yes, even though you may not feel like doing a lot, a little and often helps heal in mind body and spirit .. 🙂 ❤ Much love back ❤
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thank you, again, for sharing this with me. i am so happy to read how gardening uplifts you! 🙂
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Wow, Wow, Wow, Sue! This is wonderful. I love all your summer harvest! Plentiful! You have a green, green thumb! 🙂 ❤ xxx
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Awww, thank you Michelle, so good of you to say so, yes, smiling, we both seem to have green thumbs, both with outdoor and indoor plants.. 🙂 Hope all is well with you too 🙂 ❤
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Oh yes Sue everything is great I’m back working and loving it! ❤ 🙂
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Fantastic.. that is really good news ❤
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It is so nice to see your garden again, dear Sue 🙂
Your harvest looks solid, wish you many delicious dinners.
Much love to you ❤
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Thank you Irene, there are not many dinners we eat that have our fresh veggies or salad in them. And the good thing we get to share, we heard a fellow allotmenteer lost all his tomatoes because he was ill and he couldn’t get to anyone to let them know to water them, he is in his 80’s, So we were able to supply some to him and also some Lemon Cucumbers which he had never tried before.. 🙂 ❤
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Good that you were able to help this man, Sue 🙂
I never tasted Lemon Cucumbers either, haven’t seen them anywhere ❤
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I think they are a speciality seed, we got it through the allotment association seed catalogue. I put a link over the name of it, you can purchase seeds online. They would have no problem growing in Spain. 🙂
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Thank you Sue, I will use your link, when I get a possibility to grow anything again here 🙂
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Weeds are so hard to control even in my yard they are a nuisance with all the rain , they are prolific! Pulling them is a real job! Your garden is lovely , nothing is so good as fresh corn! Or fresh strawberries! Loved reading this and the pics Sue. Enjoy but don’t work too hard. Love, Holly! ❤️
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Thank you Holly.. Yes sweetcorn is just lovely, today we are going to prepare the shallots and freeze them, tomorrow we are picking the sweetcorn that is ready and that too will be prepared for freezing, while we save some for seeds.. The raspberries are so sweet, and I have been eating fresh with yogurt for breakfast. We are very lucky in many respects to others.. Yes its hard work, and each year we feel our aches a little more, but it keeps us going 🙂
We have learnt to pace ourselves more.. A little today and leave some for tomorrow 🙂 ❤ Much love my dear friend 🙂
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Having been partially raised on my grandparents farm I know it is hard work! Do take care on the hot weather. But enjoy ! Once again we have a major hurricane tracking our way. We put some shutters up yesterday but expect it to hit here on Sunday and Monday so I will be out today getting in some supplies, if we lose power I may not be back for a while wi th no internet. Sending lots of love ❤️ Holly
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Holly do take care my friend.. I follow MrMB333 on Youtube and he brings weather and sky phenomena to our attention, And he spoke of Hurricane Dorian making landfall on the weekend. So please take care of yourselves.. And yes we take care in the heat.. It exhausting, we drink plenty of water and rest often.. ❤
Much love right back Holly ❤
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We are tracking a category 4 Hurricane heading our way expected to hit here Monday. Hopefully between now and then something will weaken it. You take care to my dear Sue! ❤️
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Fingers and toes crossed for you Holly ❤
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Thank you Sue, very appreciated and so welcome! ❤
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The worse part of gardening is weeding. It doesn’t take long for the weeds to take over if you get distracted with other chores. Your crops of different fruits and vegetables look wonderful. You always seem to have such a great garden. Thanks for sharing your success with us. Love and hugs to you busy lady.
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Yes Peggy its backbreaking work, and my back with bending feels at times its going to snap… But we do an bit sit a bit.. I know you know how that feels.. Did you get lots of blueberries this year?? We hardly had any this year,and what there were we left for the birds, I think the frost came just at the wrong time this year for them, but it is always swings and roundabouts, you win some and lose some.. Big hugs back Peggy, love right back ❤
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Got about 60 gallons of blueberries this year. Gave half to friends and family. Always share the bounty.
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That’s wonderful Peggy, and yes we give surplus fruit and veggies away to family and neighbours 🙂
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Your garden blog is always a pleasure to look at your progress and weeds although some are pretty and can be invasive. Those raspberries look yummy. I booked a flight for a personal taste test. I should be there in 12 hours or more. Gives you plenty of time to run LOL
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Haha… You would be welcome too Joseph.. 🙂 Thank you my friend, it always keeps us busy, we go early before the heat, thankfully the last couple of days the weather temps have reverted back to something near normal for this time of the year.. And we had a deluge of rain too, so that saved on us watering.
The raspberries are always yummy, and I freeze what we can’t eat, and use in pies or smoothies.. Nothing much goes to waste in the Dreamwalker household 🙂 💚
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Beautiful dear lady, the garden and the fact that I received your post from here. Things may at last be returning to normal 😀
Great crops too Sue, and I think it actually tastes better because of all the hard work 😀
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Brilliant Mark, seems your gremlins are at last leaving you and perhaps taking up residence else where ;-). And good to know this update was delivered 😁
And yes nothing beats preparing and eating fresh from the garden. Many thanks Mark, I hope alls well with you my friend 😀 💛
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Going well thank you, but I could use a little of your rain. The drought has not yet left the building and things are a little dry 😀
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Sending thoughts and hope you get your rain soon.. Seems the world is out of balance, when you look at the areas that are being flooded while others have drought and fires etc.. Sending you THIS Video Hope you enjoy this Rain Dance.. 🙂
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Thank you kind lady, all rain energy gratefully received. And just to prove your power, the central coast area of NSW got drenched last night. While mainly coastal it did go inland and wet some very parched areas.
Thank you muchly 😀
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Whooo… Well must have been that drumming I did.. lol… I don’t quite know how to do a proper rain dance.. Don’t wish to invite more rain to the UK lol.. But I sent Mother Earth my internal thoughts and she must have listened.. ❤ 🙂 🌍☔🌧😍
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You both work very hard and it shows. I am sure the harvest will be a good one. Take care. xoxo
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Thank you dear Renee, we have so far had a good harvest of peas, beans, onions, kale, cabbages are huge, and lots more for future picking, plus Swiss Chard we have had lots of as well as all the fruits.. We still have purple sprouting broccoli and parsnips, swedes, lettuce, beetroot, carrots and brussels sprouts which will be for the autumn harvesting.. You too Renee, take care of you too ❤ 🙂
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Ahh…the amaize-ing sweetcorns and those fresh strawberries and raspberries. Yum! The flowers are so beautiful. And thanks for introducing me to Crystal Lemon Cucumbers. BTW, thanks so much for the email and photos, dear Sue. Love them. Much love and hugs, ╰(✿´⌣`✿)╯♡♡♡♡♡
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Much love right back dear Pat.. and glad to introduce you to these cucumbers, Have a great Friday tomorrow and weekend.. LOVE and HUGS your way ❤
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My goodness, you do have a green thumb. What a lovely harvest this year. We concentrate mainly on berries. Our front yard has twenty berry bushes, various varieties, and it seems all summer long we are harvesting them, eating them, and freezing them. It’s a lovely way to spend three months, and the weather has been perfect for them this year.
Well done, you! Wishing you a brilliant September!
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Thank you Bill, yes I picked some more this morning, along with four buckets full of sweetcorn which is waiting now to be stripped and frozen.. But having a rest with the computer for a couple of hours, before starting them 🙂
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Wow, Sue! So much hard work but what wonderful and rewarding results! ❤️
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Big smiles Eugenia, thank you, yes hard work but rewarding.. ❤ Special hugs ❤
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Hey Sue 🙂
Long hot days and a splash of rain: there’s nothing better for accelerating the growth of weeds: removing them is a labour of love. Must say your allotment is, as ever, looking in great shape.
A family friend – once a keen gardener before having a stroke – has also had a phenomenal year growing Dahlia’s and Gladioli in large pots and their display still looks superb. I’m told they’ve required a lot of watering but that their success this year has been largely attributed to tomato-plant feed as much the warm sunny weather.
Looking at the photographs of the corn – one of my favourite foods – has me reaching for a pan and boiling water with intention of a late night snack. No doubt i’ll get a slapped wrist in the morning, but it’ll be well worth it! lol 🙂
Love and Peace,
DN
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Good to know your friend’s garden is thriving too, Pots an ideal way of growing them, I too have them on my patio for display while the allotment ones are for cut flowers.. I took a neighbour a huge bunch this morning, her husband is suffering Dementia,
I picked 47 huge cobs of corn this morning 🙂 We had one last night with salad, sweet and tasty,, I hope your late night snack was just as good 🙂 lol
Many thanks Dewin, Happy to have you on the plot 🙂
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Always a pleasure to meander with leisure along the furrows, creases, crinkles and wrinkles of the plot Sue.
My late night snack, served with lashings of butter and cracked black-pepper, twas a taste of summer, full of sunlight and good cheer.
Best wishes,
DN
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Wonderful .. I most certainly enjoyed our sweetcorn with salad, best butter is a must!
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Agreed Sue! Sweetcorn without butter just doesn’t hit the spot in the same way.
DN
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Your garden looks amazing and productive as always, Sue. We missed the heatwaves in the UK and I am glad about that. We have enough heat at home.
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Glad you missed the heat!… 🙂 and thank you, and I do not not how you function in such heat extremes.. I certainly couldn’t lol ❤
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Gosh, sweetcorn, Sue, how wonderful. All this abundance, from a lot of hard work! Great pictures and your gladioli are stunning. ❤ xxx ❤
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I remember you love Gladioli 🙂 Thank you Jane.. Hard work for sure, and we put a lot of work in this week, We froze over 40 large cobs this week.. with more yet to ripen.. They are for the next post…
Happy you enjoyed the abundance as much as we do 🙂 ❤
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Whey hey for freezers! And your joint effort, as well as decorating skills. ❤ hugs ❤
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Yay! We are big on mulching. Luckily, we know a tree guy. If we had never met, we would still be using macnut husk, which, though it turns into lovely black soil and quickly, was not achieving the ‘mulching’ bit as we would have hoped. Carry on, fellow earth mother! ❤
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Big smiles. and yes we will Mulch away… Sending much love back Bela.. and thank you ❤
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Beautiful and productive, and delicious, I’m sure! All looks lovely, Sue. I’m gardening vicariously through you now for the food crops, although the groundhogs seem to have given up on my garden. I managed to keep my herbs, one kale plant and some fruits. Not bad, considering it’s almost all flowers now. The groundhog’s loss has been the pollinator’s gain. 🙂 Much love, Laura
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Such a shame the groundhog has been so destructive when you tried to plant crops.. But your flowers have been spectacular and I am certain the bees have certainly been happy 🙂 Much love right back. 🙂
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A delightful and pleasant visit to your allotment Sue, your variety of beautiful organic vegetables are a gardeners delight, your Crystal lemon cucumbers look a lot like what we call here, Apple Cucumbers, absolutely delicious with seeds intact and thirst quenching, cheers.
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Thank you Ian, the cucumbers do sound the very same.. and like you said with seeds delicious and thirst quenching.. 🙂 Apologies for the delay.. been a pretty busy few days here, harvesting the potatoes 😀 Hope all’s well with you my friend 🙂
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Beautiful! So you don’t mulch? I am a mulch fan, big time. Cuts down on weeds and enriches the soil. 🌺🤗😘
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Not often, do we mulch, but where we have, I agree it stops those weeds 🙂 Have a beautiful Christmas Bela.. Much love and forgive this VERY late response here.. ❤
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No worries! Been crazy busy around here. Love!😘
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I can imagine!!! Much love ❤
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And to you, dear Sue! ❤️
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Happy New Year Bela.. ❤ special hugs my friend ❤
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And happy new year to you, Sue! Wishing you and yours all the very best! ❤️❤️❤️
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Special Hugs back ❤
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