Any sentence containing the words 'strawberry' and 'glut' is unlikely to be bad.

[watervole]

The sun's been shining today, without being too hot, so I've been busy outdoors.

Spent a couple of hours this morning working on the front garden.  Mowed the lawn, weeded the bed by the house and transplanted a small euphorbia that was being swamped by large bleeding heart plant.  The bleeding heart has flowered fantastically this year (the flowers really do live up to the name) so there was no way I was going to cut it back.

This afternoon, I went down the allotment and spent a relaxing three hours trimming paths, weeding around beans, shallots and squashes.  I rescued a few sorry looking chard plants and noted that a few carrots survived the horrible wet weather and the weeds.

Picked lots of strawberries - they cropped really well this year - and mangetout and sugarsnap peas.  I love sugarsnap!

We lost a lot of seedlings when the weather was bad, but the beans are all doing really well.  The broad beans are really tasty and there's plenty more of them to come.

A couple of plants were looking a bit pale/yellow, so I've been taking bottles of urine down the plot.  Dilute half a two litre milk bottle into one watering can and pour all round the plant.  Works wonders.  I've already persuaded a few badly slugged bean plants to put out new shoots.

Comments

[ranunculus]

I like your description "badly slugged".

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

This reads well! And - immediately I have homework: to find what plants you write about(bleeding heart etc.):-)Most of them I already know - and remember:-)
We also have very hot and quite unpleasantly humid weather. I am at work tomorrow morning but I hope I will be able to mow the grass in the afternoon. It grows like crazy! Ha - and I found edible mushrooms under our hornbeam living fence! Yum yum!!!
Well, I do know people in England don´t eat wild mushrooms but we do and picking them is a national sport.
This trick with urine is great!!!

[wibble-puppy.livejournal.com]

Weeding is relaxing, isn't it. How does the urine thing work? I mean, what mechanisms come into play, and what botanical failings do they correct? We collected a good deal of urine a few years ago for a woad vat (FAIL - and dyeing with woad calls for nice stale urine, so the smell was interesting). This was all Griff's urine, I did not contribute.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

There is no such thing as Too Many Strawberries. You can always make jam.

Though well done. Mostly I am cutting back the decorative plants in our garden - if only I'd thought to plant edible stuff this year would be excellent.

[kerravonsen]

So now is the time to experiment with strawberry sorbet. 8-)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I guess we must be at least two weeks behind you in the season, being 250 miles north and at 1000 feet elevation. My strawberries are still little hard green lumps.