Cucumber harvested
Written by: adekun on 24 August, 2007 10:08 pm - Filed under: blog
the straightest cucumber
We have had a bit of rain overnight, very much nearer the beginning of the week. The seedbed holds one uneaten kohlrabi, a few beetroot shoots, and a tangle of weeds that have appeared suddenly. The cucumbers have become few and far between, I took the last three and added the vine to the freshly charged compost bin. It’s brimming with weeds at the moment. Below is possibly the pick of the crop.
I gave the patch chosen for the raspberries and digging over. It should be double dug it, but it so hot and humid (earlier today it was 35°C). I really can’t be arsed, the raspberries can’t wait until I can. After a few hours, I called it an afternoon and had a beer (it isn’t beer though).
I quite liked the idea of swapping it for a Strigil, the tool used to scrape in Roman baths.
Celia
25 August, 2007 #
Cool cucumber! I like how you’ve posed it on the tatami mat!
Not sure I’d want to swap Suffolk weather for 35°C and humid – but 15°C, dense mist and heavy showers isn’t perfect August weather either!
Celia
Allotment Lady
26 August, 2007 #
I have really enjoyed reading your blog – great. I have a Japanese daughter in law and a grandson a little older than yours – lovely to see the present opening and to read of the weather out there and your gardening.
My little family are off to Japan for a month soon
adekun
31 August, 2007 #
The Suffolk weather seems much more amenable to pastry making…
It’s heavy rain with temperatures in the late twenties. Hopefully it will turn nice soon.
Are you going to Japan too Allotment Lady?