This morning we knew it was going to be stormy later today so went out early in the morning to put the couple of garden brolleys on their sides and then spotted that a couple of branches from the tree next door were precariously being held up by the fence. They had been blown down in the night and we didn’t even hear any wind and thought all of that windy weather was happening later today (which it did).
About an hour later it was all sorted and everything looked safe and back to normal and the bed below had a lot more light on it than before. Sadly we lost some trusses on one of the tomato plants perched below and god knows if it will survive. You can’t win them all!
And after all the excitement this morning here’s a tune to cheer us up from Minyo Cumbiero called Cumbia del Monte Fuji. There’s a nice dubbed out syn drum middle bit here too. What a tune!
And look at these strawberries below, now you’re talking! They look a million times better than the ones that are now well done in our back garden. Cheers Wlad for sending us the pics and they’re really appreciated.
One plant we always have in the garden mainly through self seeding (thus being a 
And indoors on the kitchen windowsill we have another chilli (one that we were given) and that’s fruiting too. We always used to think growing chillies were hard. So far it’s the 
We can’t believe that it’s July next week, how time flies (pic above: self-seeded poppy down the garden yesterday). It was just the other week we were thinking if there was going to be a frost or not so we could put those leggy tomato plants out. Gardening is all about patience and just getting on with it, the waiting game so to speak but we’re not very good at that. And talking of tomatoes we’ve got our first trusses of fruit developing on some of the plants we grew from seed (below). That weekly feed of comfrey liquid must be helping as well as sideshooting and a daily water.
The chilli pepper we were given the other week has now got fruits (below) and we were told by the patron of said plant that she started it off very early in January. We’ll be bringing the pot in this winter and see if we can keep it going next year. Peppers and chillies are perennials so we’re told, as it says 
It’s funny what with our “sow the seed willy nilly and forget we even sown them” method we still get suprised when something pops up like in the case of the oregano seedlings below. Yes it is in a pot with a plant label with “Oregano” written on it as clear as day but we’re still suprised. Perhaps we should have a colour coded spreadsheet with a map of the garden so we know when we sowed something and where. We reckon that would take the fun out of it though. Happy growing and may that spot of rain we had earlier today further boost up your garden’s growth!
Cheers to Rich R for sending a photo his daughter took from the middle of Bassenthwaite Lake. It’s looking towards Skiddaw a mountain (and once volcano) in the Lake District that is 931m/3054 feet high. As Rich tells us “It’s the mountain that dominates the view in our back garden” Wow that is some mountain and if you see that from your back garden that is something else! Excellent Rich and ta to your daughter for taking the photo.
It’s got a good heavy metal name too (below). Is there a Black Sabbath Rose by any chance or a GWAR geranium sitting in a garden centre as we write? More heavy rock plant names via the comments please.
Weeds up to me knees 