In the Garden

My fave lunch back in the office days was an apple with a quarter of cheese, mmm.

I only have two apples this year. I moved some of the apple trees tho' so they are probably in shock.

It's too horrid to garden so I shall just do garden admin. which means trying to match up my Fuchsias with my photos, should be easy enough... famous last words, I fail at admin. what should have been a Fuchsia hung on the fence was in the darned chimney. Good grief.
 
It's been a good year for our fruit trees. We've had a bumper crop of plums, got upwards of 200 apples stored in the garage and now have a deluge of pears. The pears don't keep so at present we are cooking a few with apples, a few raisins and a sprinkle of cinnamon and I have a spoonful with my porridge of a morning.
Been a lousy summer in the veg plot though, normally we have more butternut squash than we can use, but have next to non this year due to lack of sunshine and too much rain.
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My apple tree no longer produces any apples that to the edible stage, pears I had about a dozen finished them at the end of last week.
 
I luvs your garden Dave W, that is my type of garden. I'd have to get my grabber and get up all them windfalls though. 🙂

Lovely pansy, faves, my cheap as chips trays from Wilkos which were all dried out and 50p have come out lovely.

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They'd make good compost! 🙂

Very autumnal in the garden lately. Raining again today. I want that red bush that's in my neighbour's garden, it's lovely. No idea what it is. I've got to get round to mowing, but it's never dry enough (is my excuse).
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They'd make good compost! 🙂

Very autumnal in the garden lately. Raining again today. I want that red bush that's in my neighbour's garden, it's lovely. No idea what it is. I've got to get round to mowing, but it's never dry enough (is my excuse).
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I have never been successful at home composting, but I do send my garden waste to be recycled by the council all year round.
 
I don't bother putting my green bin out. I'm not great at composting, I'm just enthusiastic. I've got seven bins. Oh no, eight. If I ever get to the point of emptying one and using the compost it'll be a red letter day. Fed up of 2020, I've been all year collecting branches and sticks and now we're on lockdown so can't have my bonfire party. I'm relying on nephew to start the fire in my tin bin thingy. I must get some firelighters. The leaves are falling, I need to get out there with a rake but the weather is dire. I'm taking all the pelargoniums and house plants round to my flat bit by bit to save them for next year. I've got more room at the flat and it's airy, Mum has the bungalow like a hothouse. Why can't we keep tomatoes going over winter? Is there a rule?
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You see the shocking pink pot above? Well that's a nice cranesbill geranium I got from ebay. I so fail at plants. I put it in new compost and it's just disappearing. Why? I should just give up. :(
 
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Why can't we keep tomatoes going over winter? Is there a rule?
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You need lots of light, so if you can set up appropriate lighting for the tomatoes then no reason why not. A sunny windowsill in winter is not the same as a sunny windowsill in summer and the plants will just grow long and straggly and not have the energy to put into fruit. House plants are usually species which don't need much light to thrive.
 
Ah right, with you now. Last year I left my two fave begonias out on the balcony at the flat and they were wonderful. I shall leave the tomatoes and see what happens.
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Well that's a nice cranesbill geranium I got from ebay. I so fail at plants. I put it in new compost and it's just disappearing. Why? I should just give up
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When did you get it? Ours all flower in late spring, then by mid summer they are all dying down. If I chop them back then, sometimes they put a fresh spurt of leaves on before the winter, but sometimes they wait til the following year, depending on the weather. So don’t give up on it just yet!
 
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I don't bother putting my green bin out. I'm not great at composting, I'm just enthusiastic. I've got seven bins. Oh no, eight. If I ever get to the point of emptying one and using the compost it'll be a red letter day. Fed up of 2020, I've been all year collecting branches and sticks and now we're on lockdown so can't have my bonfire party. I'm relying on nephew to start the fire in my tin bin thingy. I must get some firelighters. The leaves are falling, I need to get out there with a rake but the weather is dire. I'm taking all the pelargoniums and house plants round to my flat bit by bit to save them for next year. I've got more room at the flat and it's airy, Mum has the bungalow like a hothouse. Why can't we keep tomatoes going over winter? Is there a rule?
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You see the shocking pink pot above? Well that's a nice cranesbill geranium I got from ebay. I so fail at plants. I put it in new compost and it's just disappearing. Why? I should just give up. :(
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Cranes bill geranium tend to disappear underground and sprout up again in the spring. They grow a bit like weeds in my garden despite my keep pulling up as many as I can.
 
I am right down on the south coast, Poole in Dorset and I used to overwinter runner beans outside and tomatoes would stay alive in the conservatory in big pots. I have had ripe tomatoes just by leaving the green ones to turn colour, with a drip feed of water to stop them drying out, and then the plants would start to grow and flower again as soon as it warmed up in the spring.
 
A winter window box seems happy and our nicotiana are enormous. We have only ever planted them in boxes before. These were spread in the spaces in the garden, and have grown enormous and have kept going for ages.
Grrrrr the system doesn’t seem to want to let me post photo again.
 
The weather is dire, the tomatoes have keeled over. 🙄 Must clear them away. Other stuff is hanging on despite inclement conditions ie blowing a flipping gale! Million Bells okay, having recovered from the slugs in summer but one popped off.
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Me and one of my pumpkins, I'm the one on the left! 65p from Tesco. It's my dream to grow one so I'll try again next year.
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@SB2015 I wonder why you're having trouble. I just click 'attachment' now and upload from my 'documents' on the laptop.
 
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Meant to update on my green tomatoes I picked to try and ripen indoors in a bowl with a banana, surprised and pleased to say most of them did in fact ripen. I had two large bowls of them.
 
That's your garden? It's massive! 🙂 Loving the teasles.
 
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