Over the past month or so, I’ve not done much in my garden apart from watering my plants. Work has been full on and I’ve been generally busy. Now though, I have decided that I need to get back into the home gardening before I get out of it completely.
I’ll start with the things that are not going great. The sweetcorn that I was hoping would come good after struggling in the heat over the past couple of months haven’t come good, unfortunately. Again because of heat, and the fact that I can only do so much watering, many of the seedlings I’ve recently sown have died. I have a few still going strong though, which is a good!
I do have other good stuff going on. I have one corn plant that has tassels at the top now, so I’m hoping that I get some sweetcorn off this one in due course. I also have a tomato plant with flowers and fruit on, which is great.
My dahlia is also going really well, with several flowers on my plant at the moment.
I also have four brassica plants that have made it through this summers hot days. The one in the photo below is my best one, although the proof will eventually be in the eating!
I have made a start on sowing some seeds for the plants that I want to grow over the autumn and winter (that I wrote about Here). I spent a bit of time sowing the following seeds this afternoon:
- Cauliflower ‘Mini’
- Cosmos ‘Pinki’, ‘Yellow Garden’, ‘White’ and ‘Rubenza’
- Beetroot ‘Bulls Blood’
- Bean ‘Violet Queen’
- Borage
- Brussels sprouts ‘Long Islands’
- Helichrysum ‘Copper Red’
This week the weather has been warm and rather humid here at home. We had a high temperature of 36.6 degrees Celsius on Thursday, while our low temperature was 14.5 degrees Celsius early on Tuesday morning. We only had 12.7 mm of rain, although we really do need a lot more!
That is my gardening weekend. Until next time, happy gardening!