Hi - quite similar conditions here in my garden near Loch Fyne, although blight arrived to the potatoes only last week. Still a great crop. Extreme and unusually high gusts of wind has played havoc with bean structures so we had to rebuild with guy lines. The brambles are everywhere, plump and sweet.
You’re right about the blackberries! We’ve noticed an abundance here, and a brand new (and convenient patch) by the river at the bottom of the garden has emerged. The fruits are so plump and sweet, almost like blackberry liqueurs! I think this might be one major positive from all the rain we’ve endured!
It has been a challenging year for growing veg for sure! My outdoor tomatoes have done better than the others - I use a plastic shelter to protect them from the worst of the rain. Some of my greenhouse tomatoes got absolutely fried by that June heat....
I love your wild and woolly garden, Jack! I planted teasels that have rocketed away this year and every bristly bloom is now orbited by a cloud of bee satellites. Here in Orkney we've actually had an unusually warm and gentle summer so they haven't been blown over by gales (yet!). An our polytunnel tomato crop is stupendous this year, at 59 degrees north.
Thanks Samantha, I like wild and woolly as a description :D something to aim for, more woolly! That sounds wonderful, we should have gone on holiday to Orkney! Exciting to have so many tomatoes. Sadly our teasel, which have all grown well, grew too well and are now toppling over. But at least we have the seeds for more in future.
Hi - quite similar conditions here in my garden near Loch Fyne, although blight arrived to the potatoes only last week. Still a great crop. Extreme and unusually high gusts of wind has played havoc with bean structures so we had to rebuild with guy lines. The brambles are everywhere, plump and sweet.
Hoping for warmth now to ripen the sweet corn….
We had the same with the potatoes, blight but the crop was still really good this year. Fingers crossed your sweet corn ripens 🤞🏼
You’re right about the blackberries! We’ve noticed an abundance here, and a brand new (and convenient patch) by the river at the bottom of the garden has emerged. The fruits are so plump and sweet, almost like blackberry liqueurs! I think this might be one major positive from all the rain we’ve endured!
Ha yes, I’m trying to think of many other positives but plump blackberries is something I’ll take at this point 😄 glad you have a little patch too.
We’ve got to take what we can at this point Jack 😂 it’s been such a wash out, hasn’t it!
😂😂 you’re right. Yes it really has.
It has been a challenging year for growing veg for sure! My outdoor tomatoes have done better than the others - I use a plastic shelter to protect them from the worst of the rain. Some of my greenhouse tomatoes got absolutely fried by that June heat....
Yes, it was a doublewhammy wasn't it, our polytunnel tomatoes were fried then too and they haven't ever fully recovered
I love your wild and woolly garden, Jack! I planted teasels that have rocketed away this year and every bristly bloom is now orbited by a cloud of bee satellites. Here in Orkney we've actually had an unusually warm and gentle summer so they haven't been blown over by gales (yet!). An our polytunnel tomato crop is stupendous this year, at 59 degrees north.
Thanks Samantha, I like wild and woolly as a description :D something to aim for, more woolly! That sounds wonderful, we should have gone on holiday to Orkney! Exciting to have so many tomatoes. Sadly our teasel, which have all grown well, grew too well and are now toppling over. But at least we have the seeds for more in future.