Trowel and Error

[Disco]

I wish I had one of your yellow courgettes, Abs.

[Mountain Goat]

Oh they're big and healthy looking.

[Mountain Goat]

I meant your tomatoes but also applies to the courgettes. I've had a couple of the ones with the withered pizzle too. :))

[Derek Nimmo]

:)) However withered your pizzles, I'm in awe of people who can grow stuff to actually eat. Look at all the lovely produce!

[Disco]

I’ve just cut the withered pizzle off. It’s not featuring in my moorish salad

[Mountain Goat]

:)) Tell me about your moorish salad. I am in the market for anything new to do with a courgette.

[Disco]

Here it is.

[Mountain Goat]

That sounds lovely, thank you.

[Disco]

It is nice. I've been making it for years. R gave me that book in 2001!

[bramblerose]

Am I ok to post flowers etc?

I wanted some flowering perennials and have been out to the local garden centre.

There's a dianthus, a fushia, a salvia and the other is an astilbe... according to the labels :lol:

I'm not sure what the other purple one is but it comes back each year.

My lobelia is from Aldi and the petunias (?) are also possibly from Aldi.

I am possibly going to try some veggies next year.

[absley]

Flowers are definitely okay! They're looking great Goat and Brambs.

Dics, my yellow courgettes are the most prolific - no sign of fruit on any of the round ones I planted. :mad:

Does anyone know, with my Crown Prince pumpkin plants there are long runners, with several flowers along the way. Do they need to stay on soil as they root, or can they rest on the pathway? Any idea how many pumpkins each plant might produce? I was assuming one!

[baargain]

They don't always root, and it's not the end of the world if they try but can't. They can get hilariously long :lol: I am trying to redirect all my winter squash at the moment, as they're intent on just growing into each other.

The number of squash can be a bit random, maybe one, maybe 10, or anything in between! I just had a Google, and potentially 5-7? I think my crown prince has two appearing at the moment. Put the fruit on a tile or a brick so it doesn't get a mouldy bottom.

[baargain]

The flowers look lovely, Bramble and Goat! They look well settled already.

[absley]

Thanks Baa, I think I might let them sit on the wood chip paths in that case, rather than all over the other veggies! I can't see any fruit yet.

[Mountain Goat]

2001?! Are we....old?

That looks lovely Bramble. You are so on top of things, I don't think I planted anything my first year, and while that was because I was focusing on sorting out the house, I didn't do anything like as much of that as you.

My indoor tomato has one (1) tiny tomato! Come on. You can do it.

I am also excited because my enormous accidental sunflower is tantalisingly starting to reveal its inner self, and my rudbeckia goldstrum are starting to slightly open. The yellow is about to happen! A (flower) garden always feels a bit like conducting an orchestra to me, and this feels like I'm waiting for the brass to kick in. ANY MINUTE.

I forgot to say, I went to Beth Chatto the other week with a friend, where much of the planting is set up to deal with how dry this part of the country is, and they never water it. I am forming ideas for the outside/public facing bit of my garden, which is a right faff to water (I have to climb on top of the turf-to-loam pile to get the hosepipe over the wall, and even then it doesn't stretch the whole way round the house. )

[Derek Nimmo]

I will follow your adventures in no-low watering with interest, as I feel the same about the front of my house. And yes, your borders are already looking very mature ( ) for such a new garden.

ETA In that vein actually, check out my newly planted succulents (on the edge of my scruffy patio) - in planters that my lovely gardener took from one of his other clients who wanted him to clear out their shed and get rid of all contents. (He's a friend as well as a gardening magician and is invested in my garden looking nice as he's often round eating and drinking in it :)))

[Mountain Goat]

They're lovely! And pleasingly easy to look after (unless it rains madly I suppose) which is very appealing. Also I covet your gardener friend! I have a gardener acquaintance, I will need to lure him into a friend web.

[Derek Nimmo]

Food and drink is key

[Disco]

All flowers and suckies welcome!

[absley]

Look! Baby crown prince.

Eta. The flowers in the back are on my tomatillo plants.