Gladdy all Over

The Aldi gladdies are dotted all around the garden in great splashes of psychedelic colour.

What great value ... £1 per 50.

The other highlight is the black hollyhocks powdered with

dusty pollen. Such a pity that they suffer from rust. I am removing fallen dead leaves at every visit.

Sunflowers and dahlias are on the move.

Some of the cornflowers are burning out already. They just seem to run out of energy in the drought conditions.

I pulled these out.

But these ones will keep going if I continue to deadhead.

The hollowed log that I planted a few weeks ago is filling out nicely. In the orchard fruit moves on despite the lack of rain.

 

 

 In the polytunnel temperatures have reached 46 degrees.

 Here are the melons. It was cooler on Tuesday so I was able to prune out two trugs of growth from these plants. So far two melons have been netted.

 I`ve taken off the bottom leaves from most of the tomatoes, allowing more light to the ripening fruit.

I`ve not bothered to take out sideshoots or bottom leaves on these

Garden Pearl tomatoes.

Today`s harvest.

 

I think the garden is coping well with the drought.