This appeared in the polytunnel today. I’m not certain, but I think it’s a slime mould that’s commonly known as “Dog Vomit Fungus”, despite looking an awful lot like scrambled egg.
I’m not sure if this is the same thing at a later stage of development.
The most important thing to do today was to dig up the first of this year’s crop of potatoes to have with dinner. I went to one of the plants at the end of the bed, pulled all the haulms together and lifted. Wow! There were clearly quite a few potatoes there! I picked out the ones I could see and then explored for more. And more. And they just kept coming! This is the entire harvest from that one plant.
Close to 2.3kg in total. I can’t imagine all the plants will be as productive, but if they are then I can see us eating potatoes with every meal until Christmas 😀
I also needed to get started on replacing the insect mesh over the brassicas with bird/butterfly netting. I got a fair way with that, but eventually ran out of time. Not least because it was just so unpleasantly hot and humid today. At one point I came indoors for a drink and was almost literally sitting in a puddle of my own sweat. Euwww.
Pretty much what I was expecting for today, though the morning reading was lower than usual for some reason. The early afternoon reading was unusually low, and didn’t I know it? Fortunately I’d done the errands that I needed to drive for in the morning.
The most important goal of the day today was to get the garlic lifted. It’s been a very humid day and there wasn’t much pleasure in being in the polytunnel, but eventually I got all the plants into a wheelbarrow
And from there it went onto a mesh over one of the (almost) empty compost heaps to dry.
As I was already feeling somewhat dehydrated I decided that I might as well return to the polytunnel and plant out a handful of cucumbers.
That done, I planted out six squashes amongst the sweetcorn plants. I don’t know what all of these are, so it will be fun finding out 😀 It would be nice if one was Crown Prince as I didn’t do a second sowing of those as I had no more seeds.
Staying outside, I weeded my carrot bad. Carrots have been something of a disappointment so far this year. I sowed about eight rows and this is all that germinated.
So having weeded, I sowed again. I’ll try to water them regularly this time.
Once the heat had died down a bit I got back into the polytunnel (and in fact the polycrub) to sideshoot the tomato plants and check they were properly supported by their strings.
This turned up whilst I was weeding my carrot patch today.
I think it’s a Speckled Wood caterpillar. Probably not the same as the green one I found back in May because that was very much more vibrant in colour. I read that this one likes to feed on couch grass, in which case it’s in the right place 😀
Normally I don’t worry too much about “best before” dates on food. If it kills me, I won’t be complaining about it. I think this ricotta cheese might have gone a bit too far though.
This time in the polycrub. They’re coming up all over the place!
of Giorgia Meloni, but I’d have to admit that if it came down to having to guess who is telling the truth, I’d likely pick her every time ahead of the Mango Mussolini.
Why am I not surprised that having failed to win the Makerfield by-election, Frog-face Farridge is immediately blaming others, whether that be people who want Starmer out as PM (regardless of whether it happens or not) or people who voted for Restore Britain instead.
Perish the thought that it might actually be down to Reform UK Ltd. selecting a candidate who turned out to have a quite unpleasant history and who, frankly, needed no help in making himself look an idiot on Question Time. And I thought the grifter-in-chief told us that they now had very strong vetting policies in place? Perhaps what he meant was that they were making sure they excluded anyone who had an ounce of decency or compassion.
Morning, early afternoon and evening…
150/96 was quite unpleasant, I have to say.
