What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

It is such a fascinating thing that everybody pretty much seem to find chillies to be slow this year.
Being my first time growing them I have no clue what the norm is, but, beside what I hear on the forum, several friends in Italy and Spain too are telling me that their chillies are developing slower than usual.

 

It must take lots of work and planning to keep plants happy so close to the shore, between winds and high salinity in the air!

 

All closed off. I was tying the broad beans closer in and realised a lot of well filled small pods already near the bases. Lovely!

Nothing more to be done now; yes the gales are an issue but never noticed any issues re salinity, so maybe the high rainfall? I was up in Orkney a decade so learned ways to cope and it becomes automatic, second nature . Like seeing the warnings and acting on them.

Ramping up now.

 

That's a relief to hear about other peoples' slow chilli growth. Mine are looking rather pathetic but will keep a while longer.

 

For me the cayenne (finger) shaped chillies are always the first to show flowers and they are both around 18-24" tall. My Shineybrids (fruit points up) and ring of fire (fruit points down) are both well into flowering and fruit has formed on some and may even be ripe by this time next month.

The reapers, ghosts, habaneros, devil's tongue on the other hand are not anywhere near flowering and are not much taller than the cayennes nor as tall as they usually are at this time of year. They probably won't get their first flowers until August or September.

Slow going but worth the wait

 

Fed the chicken, watered the greenhouse plants then did the most important job...... took the hot tub / spa out of storage as we're expecting a mini heatwave next week. :giggle:

 

Weeding the lawn. The nasty buckthorn tree managed to drop several hundreds of berries before I got the darned thing chopped down. And I know I probably knocked more to the ground when I was cutting up the branches. But, I know it is a one time deal for this particular invader and there are so many seedlings that I have set a goal of 3 square feet to get weeded each time I go out as it is also over 90f and the weeds are in a sunny spot.

Lots of shady jobs to tinker with too.

 

Covered up a lot of the blueberries with fleece so that the black birds don't eat the fruit. Got hubby to order some more heavyweight fleece it's the only sort that will keep for years, the thin stuff ripes easily.

 

Been there, done that @ARMANDII. As a youngster my weekly bath was in one of those as we didn't have a bathroom back then. Horrible in the winter, being sat in front of an open coal fire to try and stay warm.

 

I've started work on weeding and grass seeding the 3ft high bank that runs across the end of my back garden. Not the easiest of places to work with barbed wire at my back - there because the field behind is used for cows.

In April I had some major soakaway work done for my septic tanks but until now priorities and weather have delayed the task. Now I have to weed it all before sowing.

 

Ah I would LOVE one of those! I have neither bath nor shower. The bathroom basin and the kitchen sink; as my life started in the back streets of Wigan so it will end on a small island! This is a council property, what they call a demountable dwelling. There used to be a shower that worked apparently but the council workers who were here once, promised me a BATH. As I get free hot water when the stove is lit; bliss. But nearly 4 years on... Same reason I have a new washing machine never used; getting workmen to come out is so hard you give up trying. With the new gas cooker they wanted E350 to connect it. The cooker cost E250. I got someone here to do it; illegal but what can you do? True saying is you can get used to anything. All is well