It's been a while between posts... I could blame a new business and a new horse. BUT! It's a new year and with new years come new goals, and mine is to blog about my garden and all things related once a week.
I've just come inside from happily wandering around the garden watering and picking as I go. Our many tomato plants are flourishing and ripening. Tonight I picked handfuls of Black Cherry, Green Grape, Tigerella, Jaune Flamm and Garden Peach tomatoes. They've been extra pampered this season as I've been slipping little mesh bags over ripening fruit to protect them from tomato grubs.
All is not entirely as it should be though. One veg that has been decidedly sluggish this season is the zucchini. They're normally ready for picking well before Christmas but I have only just picked my first one two days ago after hand fertilising some flowers (not something I've ever had to do before). The plants have plenty of flowers but the tiny fruits just seem to drop off. I've hardly seen any bees lately whereas they were prolific in spring. Is that the problem? I've got plenty to entice them. Marigolds, broccoli and kale flowers, poppies and violas abound but where are the bees? Perhaps it's time to get my own hive...
So tell me, do you have zucchinis coming out your ears or are yours slow to perform this year too?
Hope you and your plants are enjoying our relatively mild summer!
