I use it all the time at the mo as it soons turns to liquid gold in weather like this (stuffed down the comfrey pipe) I just add water so it looks like weak tea. Been watering with it to try and get rid of the yellowing on the leaves, esp the courgettes

Comfrey

you can use rolled up leaves as plant food at planting time. In goes the rolled up comfrey leaf and then your plant on top

Walked round to my plot this afto with husband and my nephew and picked loads of courgettes, new potatoes, calabrese, carrots, parsley, mint, onions, shallots, garlic, and ate berries. Far too hot to do any work so sauntered home

I've been digging up spiky things, moving my chilli's around so they are grouped togehter for easier watering, potted up my marigolds and build a pergoal thingy this week. Has created a good bit of shade so maybe I can keep some flowers alive

Well tis roasting here too so we're having to group plants together for easier watering anorl. This heat wave should last all of two days. How will we cope

It was a bit cooler here this afternoon so went plotting. Did LOTS of weeding and even harvested my first ever pair of lettuces Most things are doing well but most of my pak choi and rocket have bolted

Yep, mine too SQ - I pulled up a load of japanese salad leaves on Sunday cos they'd bolted - and I've forgotten to successional sow, so will need to start again. Still have little gems and mixed salad leaves tho

Tonight for dinner we had tacos with home grown tomatoes, cuc and salad leaves Tasted goooood

I've inspected my aubergines again and the edge of one of the leaves has been curled over and fixed tight with silk, so something's hiding in there Not slugs after all... I'm intrigued now

Have just been inspecting 'the estate' ... as you do

Brought home salads and beetroot, peas, sweet peas and some fuschia cuttings from a neighbour

The squash patch has taken off and there are all sorts in the gungle ... but what I want to know is ... how big should a spaghetti squash ideally be? ... so fars its about 9" x 4" ... never cooked one before so have no idea ... but t'would be heaps gor two I would have thought ???

... and the comfrey bin pongs too

Never grown spaghetti squash Flo, dunno

Finally went last night and picked lots of stuff, beans, runners, mange-tout peas, even managed to give away 3 courgettes but the weeds are truly....magnificent, too And it was teaming with slugs so they got another sprinkling of pellets
Sweetcorn looking really good and Autumn bliss rasp. in full swing

Going today to restore some order

Rather you than me Dom in all this rain. I went last night to pick courgettes before today's rain made em even more huge
So indoors with me cook book, browsing courgette recipes funnily enough. Found some buns I can make so that's the order of the day

Have fun peeps

Came back just in time cos the heavens opened
Anyone know what's the weather forecast for this week-end

Just weeded and weeded some more, couldn't find the asparagus beds cos had been invaded by next door gigantic bindweed Same with the strawbs Youngest batch of leeklings and celeriac were smothered too
All looking slightly less wild now

Came back with 2 punnets of raspberries and 3 enormous courgettes I didn't see yesterday

Weather forecast for Friday to Sunday in this part of Lincs looks good Dom. According to Metcheck anyway so it'll probably piss down!

If you put Market Rasen into the Beeb's weather page it shows sun, but if you run the national forecast sequence there's a flaming great puddle right over Lincolnshire We'll get what we're given I guess!!!

Mmm... I'm packing my wellies Can always use them to swat the mossies with if it doesn't rain

They said they were getting a mossie machine the week after our Scout camp - the one they used for filming the Potter films in Scotland. Attracts the mossies over a wide area then hoovers them in - still packing the repellent though - they were terrible in May when we went with Scouts. The midgies were a bugger in the Dales too!

just nipped to the plot to get me kettle for tommorrow and I've got tonnes of courgettes, and my kew blue beans look stunning, runners in abundance, sprouts gonna be early I reckon and me leeks have rust, lettuce gone to seed as has the last broccoli, its amazing how much it changes in just oone week

Been plotting today and brought home 2 carrier bags of stuff!! We have kale, courgettes, runners, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, radish and cucumber, I'm sooo pleased

All greens been eaten by pillars nasty little things, had to remove all and spray with bug killer, hope this works

we've been doing a lot of squishing lately

thats cooooooooooooooooooolio SQ, I'm not very good with caterpillars, well I find them really facsinating and spend ages just watching them

we've been breeding them

My garden is covered in them, all different sorts. This years neglect is really stating to show.
Had to clear all outside toms as blight hit them. Now piles of green toms to deal with(as well as part eaten ones) Caterpillars really like the Ivory Egg toms

nooooo! think of the mess when the postman jams them through the letterbox