soj - the tape stuff's supposed to do the trick (although I have the same blue organic pellets as ip)!
My daughter and I had the first strawberry the other day - bloody fab!
Got three more almost ready for picking and the kids have just gone off to their nanny's with their dad for a few days so I'LL JUST HAVE TO EAT THEM ALL MYSELF! *cheers* This lot are pretty huge but all the rest of the plants seem to be producing the same slightly weedy ones as last year - although I'd only fed them once, iirc
- never mind - they'll still TASTE delicious!
Finally pulled up my last psb and then emptied the contents of half a compost tub (OUCHY BACK!!!) onto the two free beds and have planted beetroot, spinach, chinese broccoli, nasturtiums, french beans and raab (which I'm very excited about - and have decided to give up next years psb for since it has a very long growing season which means I could potentially be eating it for the entire time that I would have had the psb anyway, but ofcourse now I can do successional planting of it too - WIN/WIN
Couldn't find my parsnip seeds
so might have to buy some more to put next to the beetroot - or I might stick something else in there - need to have a think!
Peas won't be too much longer till we can start eating them. As ever the corn is suffering slightly for being planted between the peas - I'd predicted it happening so had put the corn in earlier than last year, but wouldn't you fucking know it - none of the seeds in that particular row germinated so I had to do some in a propagator and transplant them.....by which time the peas were already very well established....BAH!!!
Aubergines all into their final pots, most of the tomatoes into bigger ones - just have a couple more to do and the three pepper plants - but am waiting till my ENORMOUS bag of vermiculite comes for that! Going to do some pea shoots then, too.
Courgettes and winter squash all doing fine.
MELON seeds never germinated so giving up on those, although I was quite looking forwards to trying to do them RIGHT this year, having learnt form my mistakes too late last time (still got TWO TEENY ONES, though!). I dunno - maybe I'll try again....
One of the blueberries is apparently not going to give me any fruit this year (I made a mistake by only getting one - that one - last year when you need two
so bough another this year and they both flowered and the fruit has set on the new one but the old one has nothing other than possibly a few very small ones.
Dunno if that's cos it hadn't done *what it was supposed to do* the year before? I
assume it's something to do with that! So I'm wondering now if I'll have to get a THIRD one next year if I actually want more than one plants worth of berries...
Oh, oh! Forgot to say.....no flowers on my gardeners delight yet (started later) but my tumbling toms have fruit! Nice that it'll be a bit more staggered this year - although my attempts to be restrained with the tomatoes didn't really work so I've only ended up with 3 less than last year - so still have 14, lol!