Sunday, September 14, 2003
I must have picked 6 pounds of tomatoes today, goodness only knows what we'll do with them - give most away most likely! We have had a bumper crop of Basil, I've never seen such healthy stuff. All of the herbs have settled in really well.
We took out the bramble which was on the plot when we got it and replaced it with a pink rose. We had hoped that the bramble (a cultivar with large fruit and no prickles) would be the centre piece of the herbs but the fruit was tastless - all looks but not much more. It was obvious from the knarled root that the plant was way passed it's prime.
We have had success with sweet peppers too, a variety called Banana on account of it's colour - very mild flavour but so good compared to those hydroponically grown waterbags from the supermarket!
There has been very little rain here in the past 4 months and the ground has little reserve of water in the top 10 inches, the marrows and courgettes really suffer in this weather but given that we just can't eat them fast enough it not so bad :)
We took out the bramble which was on the plot when we got it and replaced it with a pink rose. We had hoped that the bramble (a cultivar with large fruit and no prickles) would be the centre piece of the herbs but the fruit was tastless - all looks but not much more. It was obvious from the knarled root that the plant was way passed it's prime.
We have had success with sweet peppers too, a variety called Banana on account of it's colour - very mild flavour but so good compared to those hydroponically grown waterbags from the supermarket!
There has been very little rain here in the past 4 months and the ground has little reserve of water in the top 10 inches, the marrows and courgettes really suffer in this weather but given that we just can't eat them fast enough it not so bad :)
