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Wednesday 25 July 2012

Courgettes, peas and sweetpeas

We have enjoyed a sweltering hot day. Its so welcome after all the rain. After a couple of hours at the garden we took a picnic lunch to the beach and had another swim.

The greenhouse was in dire need of water so Steve attached the hose to the outdoor tap for the first time this year and gave it a good soak. The little peppers are forming. Thank goodness the hosepipe ban has been lifted.

Steve harvested 17 courgettes. We are wondering if there is such a thing as courgette chutney!! I`m sure our tai chi teacher`s wife has made courgette cupcakes for us.
We also picked calabrese, the first tomato and the rest of the broad beans. There were more helichrysum flowers and bunches of statice to dry.




It is very interesting to chat to the campers who travel here from all over. A young couple today had come from London by train. They had their own allotment, which wasn`t doing too well, due to the wet and rather a lot of slugs by the sound of it. They were off to visit the Gerwood Gallery in Hastings.

I stood for ages waiting for butterflies to land long enough to get a photo. There were quite a few around but not settling for long. The butterfly garden is starting to look a little blousy but there are still Michaelmus daisies and buddliea to come out. I suppose the art is to choose plants which elongate the time that butterflies can feed. September is always a good time in our own garden.


The silky and Californian poppies are so pretty with camomile in the background.


 
The sweetpeas have loved the previous wet weather and as a result they are still going strong. At this time of the year, the stems are usually beginning to shorten, but these are long and the perfume could knock you over. We have put some bunches in the barn to sell. Recently some visitors referred to the small barn as the "Sweetpea Barn" as they remembered the sweetpeas there from last year.


My last photo today shows a lapful of peas. We had them for dinner tonight. They are sooo sweet.



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