It’s been lovely weatherwise this week and now it’s a Saturday, why has it decided to rain? To tell you the truth the ground is a bit dry so we could do with a bit of rain but as long as it clears up later we won’t hold it against mother nature too much.
As for the garden we’re loving that we’re getting the first tomatoes ripening (above), the plant isn’t at its best looking as a few of its leaves have been taken off so the sun can reach them but as the great Bob Flowerdew says below at around the 4 minute mark “I don’t eat the plants.” A video worth watching.
Things are hotting up in the raised beds too even though plants are battling it out with each other (that reminds us we’d do a bit of a thin out of the veg there tomorrow as we’re sure there’s some carrots we can pull up.) We weren’t sure if the below was a chilli pepper at first but it now looks like it’s a pepper pepper (so to speak). We’ll be keeping up with the watering and the weekly feed of comfrey liquid as those beds tend to dry out well quickly.
And it’s only taken a day or so for the first courgette/zucchinni to show after its first flower. We chucked a bit of organic matter from the bottom of the compost heap around the plant and a good feed won’t go amiss either. Never mind the lockdown, keep on gardening! #gardeninginlockdown #londonlockdowngardening
And here’s a nice and chilled tune if you’re stuck indoors this morning from Adriak called Sandalo (original mix), it’s a tune to cheer you up if it’s dull outside. Eight and a half minutes of nice ambience with a lovely bassline. #lockdownambience
Weeds up to me knees 
Rain, rain …can you stop now? So this morning I checked the new improved shed roof drainage system on the shed as we haven’t had any rain since the last time when there was a leak from the back addition joint. So the improvement entailed more glue into the joint, refelting with new flashband, and another tarpaulin to cover – and it’s worked. Even better than that, the drain into the 100 litre, slimline water butt was also working althought this morning i turned the tap so the butt would fill up. Six hours later, it’s nearly up to the 75l mark..what to do when it’s full up and it’s still raining? Not only that, had to fork the garden as water was pooling – don’t ever remember this happening before but lifting a fork’s depth of top soil a little got all that rain draing away – just like Gardeners’ World last week:)
Wow! I love that about the new shed’s drainage system Gerry. The rain must have been terrible to fill that water butt up so quick. No idea on how you’d do some sort of overflow system. I bet you there’s something online somewhere. That’s mad about the forking over the garden too. I’ve never had that trouble before. Good news it’s all sorted now. Gardening’s never ending is it?