Plum Jam and Floral Bands

August so far, has been a busy month, interspersed with visits to Pett Level for high tide swims in the lovely hot weather.

Gardening consists of keeping everything watered, dead-heading, harvesting and preserving. The weight of fruit on the trees continues to be a problem and we have had to prune the crabapple where branches were bowed down to the ground. We were sorry to have to do this, as the apples were just turning colour. Even the trunk is slightly askew.

Perhaps they can be used to decorate the barn for the barn dance on Saturday.
We picked some plums, and yes, another branch has snapped. It was good to chat to returning campers whist harvesting.

Yesterday I made the first batch of plum jam. I shall be trying it out for breakfast. I was pleased to find that there weren`t too many grubs in the plums.

 

Steve made tomato sauce. The children enjoy this for their pizza bases.

The white dahlias called My Love, are good this year. The garden is full of butterflies.

 

The growth on the willow is phenomenal. Plenty of material for making willow rings.

Hollie has been making these lovely bracelets for sale in the Wool Barn. They are a very reasonable price.

These are for my two great nieces.

I have been making floral headbands. Now I wish I had had them ready for Fairy Day.
 

The garden is a particularly nice place to be at the moment with dahlias doing their thing and sunflowers towering above all.