I have had my first few loganberries that were ripe/eadible. they’re very good, just as good as I remember.
I have finally got two agaves into the ground, but now I have loads in pots too. I have dug over and removed as much of bramble and mombrisha routes as I can from the patch where the agves are going. I planted the largest on Monday, then on Wednesday I got the second bifercated one in and then today I re-potted the remaning ones. If all four of those tiny ones make it though and I wind up loads, I guess I’ll to start giving them away, maybe the village fete will be a good place for them to go.
Today I checked in on our strawberries which are apparently still producing fruit. Looks like we’re doing a fair job of feeding the slugs, which in turn I hope are feeding the hedgehogs and toads etc and so on and so forth. That strawberry is propping up an entire ecosystem..
I pocked up a loganberry plant from a village stall. I am planning on getting some chicken wire that I will attach to the fence so that it can climb or be fixed to. Hard to tell it apart from the wild strawberrys in this photo.
We’ve done a little re-arranging and planted a few bits in the garden this weekend. Bought a couple of shrubs, no idea what they are, they apparently looked pretty. Had a go at tile grouting the joints in that small patio area, this I am certain I did wrong and mostly made a mess. I shall make myself a icing piping bag arrangemnt with some grout and do it better another time. The rough area is flourishing nicely. Bottom right is my blackcurrent who’s nearly buried in wild strewberrys. Some bulbs went in (lower left) and my Gooseberry is growing well this year (lower right)
We picked up a couple of plants from a local garden centre and planted the acer: I used some of the bark that had come off the rings which I collected some rings of a fallen tree at the cricket pitch. Those were the rings I picked up back in January of 2022.
I decided that before winter I’d upgrade the agaves so that next season the biggest one can go into the ground and the smaller ones can progress up through the pots again. The biggest pot is a plastic one, which I have decided will be better, as when it comes to removing the plant, I can squish the pot to release the soil, plus it weighs less.
During that very hot spell we had, my fern died off. It has made quite a come back since then. 17th August it was pushing up some new shoots or fronds: 19th and 20th respectively: 21st and then jump to today the 25th August:
Dad gave me a couple more agaves earlier in the year, last night I re-potted them into larger pots as one had started to look a little sad. I’d been meaning to do it for ages, so this was not too soon. I also planted out the three sallows, the tomato and also put the spider plant into a pot and brought it inside. The larger one has grown quite a lot I think. Here is my previous post about it: https://bhhh.co.uk/agave/
I need to cut some of the glass from the green house that I picked up the other day (post here https://bhhh.co.uk/another-green-house/). So I got myself a glass cutter, scorer thing from Screwfix. Then I proceeded to break a small pain of glass until I learned to score it properly. This was some better results as I learned what I was doing. I found that if the score line is really nice with no breaks in it, and it makes that sound like a good weld bead going in, then it’ll break both easily and really nicely. If it’s hard to break then it’s going to break anywhere but on the line.
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